Happy Fathers Day Quotes:

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

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

- Wade Boggs

topic: Dad, Father, Games, Special Someone, Special To Me

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

- Jim DeMint

topic: Mom, Dad, Father, Great Parents, Fathers Day Images

A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.

- Lisa Rogers

topic: Children, Father, Men, Great Father, Father Child

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.

- Frank Abagnale

topic: Husband, Father, Real, Real Men, Husband And Father

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

- Mike Myers

topic: Fathers Day, Falling In Love, Kids, Fathers Day Images, Best 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 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

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.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Spiritual, Father, Men, Stepfathers, Fathers Day Images

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

- Conrad Hall

topic: Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Dad, Wherever You Are, Fathers Day Images

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

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

- Elton John

topic: Fathers Day, Song, My Son, Fathers Day Images, Fathers Day Inspirational

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

- Chelsea Clinton

topic: Fathers Day, Land, Safe, Fathers Day Images, Fathers Day Inspirational

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Son, Disillusion, Great Father

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

- David Gottesman

topic: Mother, Daughter, Father, Inspirational Father, Like A Mother

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

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

- Bill Cosby

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

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

- Raimond Gaita

topic: Father, Men, Good Man, Happy Fathers Day

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

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

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Fathers Day, Kings, Dad, Sons Love, Moral Dilemma

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

- Adam Sandler

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

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Sports, Father, Kids, Greatest Achievement, Happy Fathers Day

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

- William Graham Sumner

source: William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Encouragement, Father, Believe, Good Father, Happy Fathers Day

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

- Yehuda Berg

topic: Father, Voice, Path, Certainty In Life, Happy Fathers Day

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

- Mark Wahlberg

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

topic: Brother, Uncles, Husband, Good Neighbor, Happy Fathers Day

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

- Lee Iacocca

source: Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

topic: Friendship, Cute, Relationship, Great Father, Life Love Friendship

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

- Steve Martin

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

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

- David Beckham

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

topic: Inspirational, Fathers Day, Strong, Inspirational Father, Strong Person

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

- Jim Gaffigan

source: FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

topic: Fathers Day, Song, Dad, Being A Father, Funny Dad

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

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

- William Wordsworth

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

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

- Paul Walker

topic: Girl, Mom, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Birthday, Family, Christmas, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

- Martin Amis

topic: Children, Father, Selfishness, Having Children, Happy Fathers Day

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

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 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

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

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Father, Son, Men, Great Father, Funny Dad

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

- Jean Paul

topic: Children, Father, World, Happy Fathers Day

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Father, Ears, Music Is, Happy Fathers Day

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.

- Alison Lohman

topic: Fathers Day, Men, People, Inspirational Father, Untamed

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

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

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

- Euripides

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

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

- Tiger Woods

topic: Fathers Day, Husband, Dad, Fathers Day Images, Fathers Day Inspirational

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

The older I get the more I can see How much he loved my mother and my brother and me And he did the best that he could And I only hope when I have my own family That everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

- Keith Urban

topic: Mother, Brother, Dad, Happy Fathers Day

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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