Christian Fathers Day Quotes:

The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

- Solomon

topic: Fathers Day, Children, Integrity, Christian Fathers Day, Righteous Man

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

- Billy Graham

topic: Inspirational, Father, Our Society, Inspirational Father, Our Father

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Loss, Sons Love, Father Died

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Dad, Daddy, Father Died, Inspirational Father, My Dad Died

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

- Anne Geddes

topic: Relationship, Dad, Father, Special Someone, Inspirational Father

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

- Jim Valvano

topic: Basketball, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Dad, Inspirational Father, Great Father

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

- Harmon Killebrew

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family, Mother, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Step Dad

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

- Confucius

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Doe, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

topic: Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Great Father

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Fathers Day, Father, Names, Great Father, Our Father

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Family, Thank You, Fathers Day, Happy Family, Inspirational Father

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

- Kent Nerburn

topic: Fathers Day, Father, Easier, Inspirational Father, Great Father

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

- Margaret Truman Daniel

source: "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up, Inspirational Father, Great Father

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

- Max Lucado

source: Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Kindness, Self, Giving, Galatians, Fruits Of The Spirit

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

- Erika Cosby

topic: Family, Father, Together, Inspirational Father, Great Father

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Men, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Women, Good Character, Many Paths

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Fathers Day, Children, Dad, Inspirational Father, Being A Father

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

- Solomon

topic: Mother, Fathers Day, Father, Your Mom, Christian Fathers Day

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Funny, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

- Gloria Naylor

source: Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

- Matt Damon

topic: Inspirational, Heart, Way, Christian Fathers Day, Fathers Day Images

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

- Robert Orben

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Mother, Inspirational Father, Credit Card

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

- Louis Adamic

topic: Fathers Day, Grandfather, Honey, My Grandfather, Great Grandfather

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

- Enid Bagnold

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby, Mom And Daughter, Father Died

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Funny, Fathers Day, Kids, Great Father, Dad Love

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

- Mario Cuomo

source: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Simple, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

- William Penn

source: "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Wisdom, Christian Fathers Day, Happy Fathers Day God

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Mom, Children, Mean, Inspirational Father, Mother's Day

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.547, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

topic: Karma, Children, Father, Admonition, Ephesians