Father Quotes for All Occasions

1. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown Author

2. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. - Lydia M Child

3. A father carries pictures where his money use to be. - Author Unknown

4. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the riches inheritance. - Ruth E Renkel

5. 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 rode. - Angelo Patri

6. Any man can be a father; it takes someone special to be a dad. - Unknown Author

7. Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. - Unknown Author

8. Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children. - Cindy Garner

9. 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, you can pick up in your hands and weave it into a cloth that feels like love itself. - John Gregory Brown

10. If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. -Thomas Fuller

11. To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.- Euripides

12. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection as purely angelic as of 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 is no words to express. - Joseph Addison

13. A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. - Irish Saying

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

15. Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. -Anne Geddes

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

17. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert

18. If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.- Russell Hoban

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

20. My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'-- Dexter Scott King

21. A wise son maketh a glad father. -- Proverbs 10:1

22. None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. -- Queen Victoria of England

23. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. - Ruth E. Renkel

24. Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him. -- Laurence Rockefeller

25. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leaves 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. - Margaret Truman

26. A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.- Unknown

27. Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much. - Unknown

28. By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth

29. It is a wise father that knows his own child. -William Shakespeare

30. One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. - Anonymous

31. 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

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

33. Father! - To God himself we cannot give a holier name. -William Wordsworth

34. It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. - Johann Schiller

35. 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 be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi

36. Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. -Author Unknown

37. Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. -Gloria Naylor

38. The greatest gift I ever had

Came from God; I call him Dad! - Author Unknown

39. Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

40. Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons

41. I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

42. Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. -Author Unknown

43. There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.-Samuel Johnson

44. If you know his father and grandfather you may trust his son.-Moroccan proverb

45. When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.-Mack R. Douglas

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

47. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.-David O.Mc Kay

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

49. Children have more need of models than critics.- Joseph Joubert

50. A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.- Knights of Pythagoras