Inspirational Quotes About Fathers

Trina Graves quote - Expressing words of Love to their children Cuddling and kissing even into adulthood It’s beautiful to see and know The role of father has changed for the good - Spiritual Quotes To Live ByMy son with his daughter

These inspirational quotes about fathers are words of upliftment, guidance and joy about being a father, along with quotes of various people talking about their own fathers. 

There is also a page of Father Sayings from unknown sources.

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are listed alphabetically on authors surname

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Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale 1948
American security consultant, author & inspiration for movie Catch Me If You Can
A real man loves his wife and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.


Abraham-Hicks

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
When you are loving your children and expecting good things for them, you are tapped into the Energy of your Source and you’re flooding that all over them.


Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison 1672-1719
English essayist, poet & politician
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.


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Walt Aldridge & Elliott Park
American singer/songwriters (sung by Heartland)
I loved her first, I held her first and a place in my heart will always be hers. From the very first breath she breathed, when she first smiled at me. I knew the love of a father runs deep and I prayed that she’d find you someday, but it still hurts to give her away. I loved her first.


Heartland song quote - I loved her first, I held her first and a place in my heart will always be hers. From the very first breath she breathed, when she first smiled at me. I knew the love of a father runs deep. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By1978: With my father
Tim Allen

Tim Allen 1953
American actor & comedian
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humour and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect mom, they’re going to respect mom.


I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It’s not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I’ll do it because it’s a moment that will stick with me forever.


Andre-Marie Ampere

Andre-Marie Ampere 1775-1836
French physicist, mathematician & inventor
My father.. never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon’s natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.


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Robert L. Blackman

Robert L. Backman 1922-2022
American lawyer & politician
Father is the noblest title a man can be given. It is more than a biological role. It signifies a patriarch, a leader, and exemplar, a confidant, a teacher, a hero, a friend.


Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac 1799-1850
French novelist & playwright
Someday you will know that a father is much happier in his children’s happiness than in his own. I cannot explain it to you: it is a feeling in your body that spreads gladness through you.


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Jack Baker
Every day, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, he can learn ways to become an even better dad.


David Beckham

David Beckham 1975
English footballer
When you have kids you grow up. I have just started realising it now.. It changes the world, having children.


Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson 1899-1994
American farmer, government official & LDS religious leader
A father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.


A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.


Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role of fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.


The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.


John Walter Bratton

John Walter Bratton 1867-1947
American composer & theatrical producer
Dad: a son’s first hero, a daughter’s first love.


Dad, because you are are my father it’s been easy to believe in God.


Dads are the treasures of the world.


The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.


The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him dad!


Walk a little slower, Dad
Cos I am only small,
I’m following in your footsteps
And I don’t want to fall.

Someday when I’m all grown up
You’re what I want to be,
Then I will have a little child
Who’ll want to follow me.

And I would want to lead just right
And know that I was true,
So, walk a little slower, Dad
For I must follow you.


Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges 1948
American actor
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.


Dan Brown

Dan Brown 1964
American author
No love is greater than that of a father for his son.


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John Gregory Brown 1960
American novelist & professor of English
There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter. Gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.


John Gregory Brown quote - There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter. Gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2017: My son with his daughter on her 20th birthday
Pam Brown

Pam Brown 1948
Australian poet
Dad’s are most ordinary men, turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.


Dad’s don’t need to be tall and broad shouldered and clever.. Love makes them so.


Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia 1924-1998
American author & motivational speaker
If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die.


Lorna Byrne

Lorna Byrne 1953
Irish author
The bonding with a new baby can help people to release love unconsciously.


Lorna Byrne quote - The bonding with a new baby can help people to release love unconsciously - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2012: My daughter, son-in-law & children
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Nicolas Cage

Nicholas Cage 1964
American actor & film producer
My father was always getting excited about something… it’s genetically inside me somewhere.


Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey 1962
Canadian-American actor & comedian
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.


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Steve Chapman
Becoming a dad is one thing, being a dad is many things.



Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child 1802-1880
American abolitionist, activist & journalist
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.


Lydia Maria Child quote - Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2014: Hands of my son-in-law and his three sons
Chris Christie

Chris Christie 1962
American politician
I think that’s the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they’re loved.


Frank A. Clark

Frank A. Clark 1911-1991
American author, speaker
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.


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Beverly Cleary 1916-2021
American children’s author
I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
English poet & literary critic



A little child, a limber elf
Singing, dancing to itself
A fairy thing with red, round cheeks
That always finds and never seeks
Makes such a vision to the sight
As fills a father’s eyes with light


Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe 1964
New Zealand actor & director
I cannot understand how I managed to cope without getting cuddled this many times a day.


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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl 1916-1990
British author
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.


It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.


Matt Damon

Matt Damon 1970
American actor & film producer
If I had a bucket list.. I’d say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be number one.


Sammy Davis Jr

Sammy Davis Jr 1925-1990
American singer, dancer & entertainer
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.


Sheri L. Dew

Sheri L. Dew 1953
American author, publisher & LDS church leader
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.


You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.


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John Dryden 1631-1700
English poet & playwright
When thy father is too fondly kind
Such seed he sows, such harvest shall he find.


Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas 1803-1870
French novelist & playwright
My father was a big child that was given to me while I was still little.


Henry van Dyke

Henry van Dyke 1852-1933
American author & Presbyterian clergyman
What do I owe my father?...  Everything!


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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco 1932-2016
Italian medievalist, philosopher & novelist
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.


Umberton Eco quote - I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2020: My son-in-law with his children
Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton 1944
American author
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.


As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change diapers, to tell the stories.


Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It’s sad that children’s open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.


I believe there’s a secret chemical that’s turned loose when you have kids, that says you’ve got to survive, you’ve got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.


Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison 1847-1931
American inventor & businessman
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.


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Anthony Edwards
There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them.


Len Elmore

Len Elmore 1952
American basketball player, sportscaster & lawyer
My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.


Euripides

Euripides 480BC-406BC
Ancient Greek tragedian
Noble fathers have noble children.


To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than.. A daughter.


Richard Louis Evans

Richard Louis Evans 1906-1971
American Latter-Day Saints radio broadcaster
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them.


Richard Evans quote - Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By1998: My son with his cherished daughter
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Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon 1974
American TV host & comedian
Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.


James E. Faust

James E. Faust 1920-2007
American religious leader, lawyer & politician
Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in heaven.


Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford 1942
American actor
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.


Dawn French

Dawn French 1957
British actress, comedian & author
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.


Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud 1856-1939
Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.


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Anne Geddes

Anne Geddes 1956
Australian photographer
Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.


Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
I know his father; how do you expect me not to know him?


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832
German poet, playwright & novelist
Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.


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Marcus Jacob Goldman 1960
Physician & writer
Some dads liken the impending birth of a child to the beginning of a great journey.


David Gottesman

David Gottesman 1926-2022
American businessman & philanthropist
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage of development.


Billy Graham

Billy Graham 1918-2018
American evangelist & Baptist minister
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed and yet one of the most valuable assets in society.


Trina Graves

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet & quote anthologist


Expressing words of Love to their children
Cuddling and kissing even into adulthood
It’s beautiful to see and know
The role of father has changed for the good

quote from poem:  Father: The Changing Role


Forever in my heart
Always loved and adored
Thinking of you often
Hoping all the joys are yours
Ever grateful for your guidance
Roots from you are my support

Trina Graves quote - Forever in my heart Always loved and adored Thinking of you often Hoping all the joys are yours Ever grateful for your guidance Roots from you are my support - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2008: Father's Day with my dad
Trina Graves

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet & quote anthologist


Please know that I will always be there for you
Our Love is eternal, so it will never end
Thank you for everything you do, you are…
My precious father, my support, my friend

quote from poem: A Father's Role

Trina Graves quote - Please know that I will always be there for you Our Love is eternal, so it will never end Thank you for everything you do, you are… My precious father, my support, my friend - Spiritual Quotes To Live ByWith my father
Trina Graves

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet & quote anthologist


Taking an active role
Feeding, changing and cuddling
Fully supporting a newborn Soul
Opens the Heart to truly sing

quote from poem: Today's Father


Trina Graves quote - Taking an active role - feeding, changing and cuddling, Fully supporting a newborn Soul, opens the Heart to truly sing. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By1997: My 17 year old son with his newborn daughter (my first grandchild)
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Dan Greenberg
When my son looks up at me and breaks into his wonderful toothless smile, my eyes fill up and I know that having him is the best thing I will ever do.


Edgar Guest

Edgar A. Guest 1881-1959
American poet


The Baby’s Help
Lips of laughter, eyes of light
Do you know your mission here?
Sent to make the old world bright
Sent us grown-up folks to cheer
Little can you understand
Playing in the sunlight there
Lips of laughter, that you make
My cross easier to bear

Golden hair and rosy cheek
Just a tiny little mite
Little can you guess the part
You are playing in my fight
Little do you know the help
You are giving me each day
Keeping faith and hope alive
Helping me along the way

Chubby hand and tippy-toe
Little do you ever dream
How you keep your daddy up
Aiding him, when it must seem
He must fail and quit the fight
But his strength returns anew
And he plunges in once more
Just because he thinks of you


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Dante Hall
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.


Brooke Hampton

Brooke Hampton
Author
As mamas, papas, grandparents, teachers and caregivers we have a responsibility to protect these little Earth warriors. It’s our job to protect and nurture their love, their innocence, their spirits, their imagination, their gifts, their health, and wellbeing, their spirituality, their confidence, their character, their freedom of thought, their instincts, their wildness, and their magic! There is nothing we can do in this lifetime that will compare to the importance of this work. These little ones are our future. Guard them well!


Brooke Hampton quote - There is nothing we can do in this lifetime that will compare to the importance of this work. These little ones are our future. Guard them well! - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2012: My daughter with her second son.
George Herbert

George Herbert 1593-1633
English poet, orator & priest
One father is more than a hundred school masters.


Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo 1802-1885
French poet, novelist & dramatist
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.


Victor Hugo quote - Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By1988: My father with two of his sons
Jan Hutchins

Jan Hutchins 1949
American TV/radio journalist & producer
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, “You’re the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.”


Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley 1894-1963
English author, poet & philosopher
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.


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Miguel Indurain

Miguel Indurain 1964
Spanish road racing cyclist
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.


Robert Ingersoll

Robert Ingersoll 1833-1899
American lawyer, writer & orator
The child is not likely to find a father in God, unless he finds something of God in his father.


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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman 1968
Australian actor
The things that I really cherish are the everyday moments, like getting home after a tough day and my kids come up and give me a hug and remind me what’s really important.


When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.


Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson 1958-2009
American singer-songwriter & dancer
I just wish I could understand my father.


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Naveen Jain
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.


T. D. Jakes

T. D. Jakes 1957
American non-denominational Christian pastor
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.


David Jeremiah

David Jeremiah 1941
American founder of Turning Point for God
A girl’s father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.


Michael Jordon

Michael Jordan 1963
American basketball player
My father was there when I didn’t understand. He was there when I was wrong. He was there when I cried. He was there when I lied. For some reason my dad was always there when I needed him most. His love was never ending. And now that he’s gone there is an emptiness in my world, but not in my heart.


Michael Josephson

Michael Josephson 1942
American speaker & lecturer
No word makes me happier than the word ‘daddy’ uttered by one of my children.


Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert 1754-1824
French moralist & essayist
Children need models rather than critics.


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Abdul Kalam

Abdul Kalam 1931-2015
Indian scientist & 11th President of India
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.


Clarence Budington Kelland

Clarence Budington Kelland 1881-1964
American writer
He didn’t tell me how to live.. He lived, and let me watch him do it.


Charles Kettering

Charles Kettering 1876-1958
American inventor, engineer & businessman
Every father should remember..
One day his son will follow his example, not his advice.


Martin Luther King jr

Martin Luther King Jr 1929-1968
American Baptist minister & civil rights activist
If I had a problem, I could always call daddy.


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Knights of Pythagoras
Community based mentoring organization
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.


Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz 1964
American singer-songwriter, record producer & actor
(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or a sex god)
I am neither. My favourite role is father.


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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr 1914-2000
Austrian-American actress & inventor
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.


Alison Lohman

Alison Lohman 1979
American actress
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.


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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
American General of United States Army
By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am also prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.


Shirley Maclaine

Shirley MacLaine 1934
American actress, dancer & author
If we can genuinely honour our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.


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Reed Markham 1957
A child looks up at the stars and wonders. A great father puts a child on his shoulders and helps him to grab a star.


Reed Markham quote - A child looks up at the stars and wonders. A great father puts a child on his shoulders and helps him to grab a star. - Spiritual Quotes To Live ByMy son with his daughter
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Reed Markham 1957
Average fathers have patience. Good fathers have more patience. Great fathers have an ocean of patience.


Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.


The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself but for his family.


The thrill of being a great father is not seeing your children go on to become successful adults. The thrill of a great father, is the journey.. Experiencing your child’s successes along the pathway to their greatness.


Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley 1968
Jamaican musician & son of Bob Marley
Everything I’ve taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can’t say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1927-2014
Colombian author & journalist
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.


Steve Martin

Steve Martin 1945
American comedian, actor & writer
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.


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Tanya Masse
Author
A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.


John Maxwell

John Maxwell 1947
American author, speaker & pastor
If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.


Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey 1969
American actor
Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn.


Phil McGraw

Phil McGraw 1950
American TV personality & author
As a father, you are your child’s safe harbour in the ocean of life.


Christopher Meloni

Christopher Meloni 1961
American actor & producer
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.


Mencius

Mencius 372BC-289BC
Chinese Confucian philosopher
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
Austrian composer
Directly after God in Heaven comes papa.


Mike Myers

Mike Myers 1963
Canadian actor, comedian & filmmaker
Anyone who tell you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.


Mike Myers quote - Anyone who tell you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. - Spiritual Quotes To Live ByMy son-in-law with his first son
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Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson 1952
Northern Irish actor
It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.


Kent Nerburn

Kent Nerburn 1946
American author
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.


Until you have a son of your own.. You will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.


Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900
German classical scholar & philosopher
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.


When one has not had a good father, one must create one.


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Ben Okri

Ben Okri 1959
Nigerian-British poet & author
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me, unintentionally, was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the ebullient, laughing, jovial man.


Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver 1975
English celebrity chef, restaurateur & cookbook author
I’ve made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I’ve ever made.


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Boyd K. Packer

Boyd K. Packer 1924-2015
American LDS church leader & educator
Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.


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Jean Paul
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.


Dan Pearce

Dan Pearce
Author & artist
The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.


Lowell Tom Perry

Lowell Tom Perry 1922-2015
American businessman & LDS church leader
A family needs a father to anchor it.


Frank Pittman

Frank Pittman 1953-2012
American psychiatrist & author
Fathering is not something men do, but something that perfects the man.


Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.


Frank Pittman quote - Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By1957: My mum with her father-in-law
Frank Pittman

Frank Pittman 1953-2012
American psychiatrist & author
The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.


Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier 1927-2022
Bahamian-American actor, director & activist
My father was the quintessential husband and dad.


Linda Poindexter

Linda Poindexter
Writer, humorist & author of quotes
When my father didn’t have my hand.. He had my back.


Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt 1979
American actor
I’ve done all kinds of cool things as an actor - I’ve jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.


Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley 1968-2023
American singer/songwriter & daughter of Elvis Presley
I felt my father could change the weather. He was a God to me. A chosen human being. He had that thing where you could see his soul.


I was four when they split up. But I remained so close with my dad. I knew how much I was adored, how much he loved me.


My dad didn’t talk about my mom in a bad way at all. He did not want me to think negatively of her. In retrospect, they did a fantastic job maintaining a united front and a real friendship bond. There was still a lot of love between them, and they really put on a good front for me. I was very lucky.


My dad loved to have fun and he loved everybody else to have fun with him, and he loved to laugh.


Antoine Francois Prevost

Antoine Francois Prevost 1697-1763
French priest & author
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature


J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley 1894-1984
English novelist, playwright & broadcaster
To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.


J. B. Priestley quote - To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By1960: My dad at a cricket match with my brother
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Ruth E. Renkel
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.


Jean Paul Richter

Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825
German author
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world. But, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.


Justin Ricklefs

Justin Ricklefs
Entrepreneur & CEO of Guild Collective
The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched.


Justin Ricklefs quote - The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2018: My youngest grandson having fun with his dad
Will Rogers jr

Will Rogers Jr 1911-1993
American politician, writer & newspaper publisher
His heritage to his children wasn’t words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and father.


Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney 1985
English footballer
Becoming a father was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.


Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919
American 26th president of United States
There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railway man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor, or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.


Rumi

Rumi 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.


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Deion Sanders

Deion Sanders 1967
American football player & coach
I don’t care what they say about me when I’m through with sports. I don’t want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.


Frierich von Schiller

Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805
German playwright, poet & philosopher
It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.


Friedrich Schiller quote - It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. - Spiritual Quotes To Live ByMy brother with three of his sons
Walter M. Schirra

Walter M. Schirra 1923-2007
American naval aviator & NASA astronaut
You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.


Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner 1855-1920
South African author & anti-war campaigner
Our fathers had their dreams, we have ours. The generation that follows will have its own.


Olive Schreiner quote - Our fathers had their dreams, we have ours, the generation that follows will have its own - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2016: My grandchildren at Warwick Castle, Warwickshire
Victoria Secunda

Victoria Secunda
Author, journalist & lecturer
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.


William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare 1564-1616
English playwright, poet & actor
It is a wise father that knows his own child.


‘Tis a happy thing to be the father unto many sons.


William Shakespeare quote - ‘Tis a happy thing to be the father unto many sons. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2015: My brother with his four sons, daugher & wife
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John Sinor
It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in Heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.


Will Smith

Will Smith 1968
American actor, singer & film producer
I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.


Solomon

Soloman
Biblical Israelite king
The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.


Soloman quote - The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2020: Father & son (extended family)
Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender 1909-1995
English poet, novelist & essayist
Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger. My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I’ll feel a ring invisibly. Circle this bone with shining. When she is grown.


Benjamin Spock

Benjamin Spock 1903-1998
American pediatrician & author
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, “Now I’m going to read my paper,” than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.


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Joni Eareckson Tada

Joni Eareckson Tada 1949
American Evangelical Christian author, radio host & artist
There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.


Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu 1931-2021
South African Anglican bishop & human rights activist
My father used to say.. ‘Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument!’


Mark Twain

Mark Twain 1835-1910
American writer, humorist & essayist
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven year.


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Alan Valentine
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.


Alan Valentine quote - For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By2015: Four generations - my father, brother & nephew with his son
Jim Valvano

Jim Valvano 1946-1993
American basketball player, coach & broadcaster
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person.. He believed in me.


Ama Vanniarachchy

Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Sri Lankan writer, journalist & illustrator
I am so proud of my father; he is the biggest example of success and courage I have ever seen in my life. He is the emperor of my kingdom.


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Charles Wadsworth
By the time a man realized that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.


Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg 1971
American actor
Being a father is my most important role.


Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.


If I succeed in business, but fail as a father.. Then I failed.


Azelene Williams

Azelene Williams
Social worker & counsellor
The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands, the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us, those dreams are realized naturally. For this is the miracle of life.


John Wooden

John Wooden 1910-2010
American basketball player & coach
Being a role model is the most powerful form of education. Too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.


John Wooden quote - Being a role model is the most powerful form of education. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By1999: My son with his daughter
Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods 1975
American golfer
Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.


My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.


William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth 1770-1850
English poet
Father: To God himself we cannot give a Holier name.


The child is the father of the man.


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Al Yankovic

Al Yankovic 1959
American comedy musician, writer & actor
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.



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