Happy Fathers Day Greetings Quotes:

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

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

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

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

- Helen Rowland

source: Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Son, Inspirational Father, Father And Son

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Bill Cosby

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

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

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

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

- Euripides

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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

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

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

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

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

- Steve Martin

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

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

- Jake Gyllenhaal

topic: Dad, Believe, Mean, Fathers Day Poems, Happy Fathers Day God

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

- Margaret Ann Courtney

topic: Daughter, Father, Glee, Daughter To Father, Father Daughter Love

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

- Michael Jordan

topic: Father, Trying, Too Late, Fathers Day Images, Fathers Day Inspirational

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

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

- Homer

topic: Important, World, Being Popular, Baseball Games, Complicated World

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.'

- Jan Hutchins

topic: Dad, Father, Kids, Funny Happy Fathers Day, Happy Fathers Day God

You can do anything you want to do.

- Estelle Getty

topic: Want, Funny Happy Fathers Day, Happy Fathers Day God, Happy Fathers Day Greetings, Cowardly

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

- George Herbert

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

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

- Michael Gurian

source: "102 years later, it's a new day for dads" by Nicholas K. Geranios, www.today.com. June 1, 2012.

topic: Father, Boys, Men, Happy Fathers Day Greetings

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

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 same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

- Ben Okri

topic: Fathers Day, Courage, Adversity, Jovial, Rollercoaster

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Earth, Sons Love, Father And Son

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

- Princess Diana

topic: Inspirational, Family, Important, Complicated World, Happy Family

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

- Lord Chesterfield

source: Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day, Fatherless, Fathers Day Images

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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