Fatherhood Inspirational Quotes:

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.

- Umberto Eco

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Believe, Good Parent, Being A Father

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.

- Naveen Jain

source: FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 21, 2016

topic: Father, Inspiration, Pride, Fatherhood Inspirational, Happy Fathers Day Mom

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

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

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

- Mark Twain

topic: Love, Funny, Motivational, Live And Learn, Inspirational Family Love

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

- Kent Nerburn

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

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

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

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Family, Wise, Meaningful, Inspirational Father, Merchant Of Venice

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

- Fanny Fern

topic: Dad, Father, Names, Inspirational Father, Great Father

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

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.

- Angelo Patri

topic: Children, Father, Journey, Great Father, Father Child

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Inspire, Dad Love, Love My Dad

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Children, Being A Father, Great Father

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

- Anne Sexton

source: "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

topic: Death, Daughter, Fathers Day, Loss Of A Parent, Father Died

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

- Bill Cosby

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

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

- Euripides

topic: Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad, Mom And Daughter, Inspirational Father

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

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

- William Wordsworth

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

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

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

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

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

- John Gregory Brown

source: John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Daughter, Running, Men, Inspirational Father, Mother And Daughter

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

- William Shakespeare

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

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

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

- Tom Wolfe

topic: Children, Father, Boys, Inspirational Father, Being A Father

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood, Funny Dad, Being A Dad