THE MOST INSPIRING FATHER'S DAY QUOTES

We may not shower him with praise

Nor mention his name in song,

And sometimes it seems that we forget

The joy he spreads as he goes along,

But it doesn’t mean that we don’t know

The wonderful role that he has had.

And away down deep in every heart

There’s a place that is just for Dad.....

|| Unknown

It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave Father; and, especially, that it is affecting your young heart beyond what is common in such cases. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once. The memory of your dear Father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before.

|| Abraham Lincoln to a young woman, Fanny McCullough, daughter of Lincoln’s long-time friend, Lieutenant Colonel William McCullough who died during the Civil War

A dad is someone who

wants to catch you before you fall

but instead picks you up,

brushes you off,

and lets you try again.



A dad is someone who

wants to keep you from making mistakes

but instead lets you find your own way,

even though his heart breaks in silence

when you get hurt.



A dad is someone who

holds you when you cry,

scolds you when you break the rules,

shines with pride when you succeed,

and has faith in you even when you fail...

|| Unknown

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

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

|| Sigmund Freud 

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.

|| Anne Geddes

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

|| Antonio Gramsci

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

|| Natasha Josefowitz

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

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

|| Charles Wadsworth

A father is someone that

holds your hand at the fair

makes sure you do what your mother says

holds back your hair when yor are sick

brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy

lets you eat ice cream for breakfast

but only when mother is away

he walks you down the aisle

and tells you everything's gonna be ok.

|| Unknown

They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps.

|| Unknown

I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.

|| Bartrand Hubbard

A true father is always there. He is there to spill tears of happiness when his eyes fall upon his infant daughter. He is there with arms to catch her when she takes her first steps or stumbles. He is there to teach her at the youngest age, even though she might not understand half of it. He is there to help her color inside the lines, make her grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, and tie her shoes. He is there to hug her and kiss her on her first days of school, and to walk her in if need be. He is there to teach her and tease her and laugh with her. He is always there to embarrass her, but that’s part of life. He is there to tell her to go ask her mother, when her mother told her to ask him. He is there to lecture her, prepare her for the monster called high school. He is there to put up with her teenage moods and her co-ed relationships. He is there to approve, disapprove, accept and forgive. He is there to give her a big bundle of flowers when she graduates, to smile when her name is called and feel proud. He is there to embrace her and kiss her before she goes to live and learn a thousand miles away. He is there to see her become a workingwoman, to walk her down the aisle (or not, if her independence and stubbornness prevail after all). He is there to watch her grow as the lines on his face grow. He is there to welcome her home, always, and let her hug him and smell the smell she remembers from childhood, the warm, protecting, comforting smell of dad. But most of all, he is always there to love her. And she is always there to love him back. Dad, I love you, happy Father’s Day.

|| Katie Schmarr

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.

Thankfully, there is no measurement great enough to measure the worth of my father. I love you Dad!

|| Lisa Rogers

Being a great father is like shaving.

No matter how good you shaved today,

you have to do it again tomorrow.

|| Reed Markham

STILL MORE FATHER'S DAY QUOTES

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

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, 

he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

|| Charles Wadsworth

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

|| Proverbs 10:1

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.

|| Unknown

Once, God gave me the greatest gift ever. I call that gift: Dad.

|| Kurt Avish

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

|| Proverbs 13:5

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful of his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

|| Billy Graham

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

|| Proverbs 20:7

How shaper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

|| King Lear - Shakespeare

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

|| Theodore Hesburgh

The test of man's faith is not in what he believes but what manner of man, what manner of husband and what manner of father he becomes as a result.

|| R. Robert Flatt

There are three stages in a man's life:

'My Daddy can whip you Daddy.'

'Aw, Dad, you don't know anything.'

'My father used to say . . .'

|| Dwight McSmith

My Dad is a mender of toys, a leader of boys; changer of fuses, a healer of bruises; a mover of couches, a healer of ouches; a hanger of screens, a counselor of teens; a pounder of nails, a teller of tales; a dryer of dishes, a fulfiller of wishes.

|| JoAnn Heid

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what sun is to flowers.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

There is no principle of parental government more important than that a father should command his own temper when he inflicts punishment. He should punish a child not because he is angry, but because it is right; not because it has become a matter of personal contest, but because God requires that he should do it, and the welfare of the child demands it.

|| Albert Barnes

The father who loves his children will not substitute toys for time, replace commendation with condemnation but will be their teacher not taskmaster.

|| R. Robert Flatt

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

|| Roger Lewin

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

|| Clarence Budington Kelland

Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of parents toward their children. 

An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural. 

|| Addison 

If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

|| Elisabeth Elliot

Fathers are what give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren that are smarter than anybody's.

|| Paul Harvey

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

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

|| Haim Ginott

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

|| Robert A. Heinlein

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

|| Larry Christenson

Becoming a man means integrity...staying true to God's Word...being responsible to others, regardless of their social position in life...loving the unlovable...humbling oneself.

|| Bob Welch

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

|| Henry W. Beecher

The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

|| Sheldon Glueck

You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father not a formula. He wants real parents, real people capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

|| C.D. Williams

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. 

|| Barbara Johnson

Manhood has less to do with age than with enlightenment...With commitment...With repentance...It's found in the hearts of men, in a form of such attributes as courage, humility, and vulnerability.

|| Bob Welch

MORE FATHER'S DAY QUOTES

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

|| Unknown



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

|| Fanny Fern



They didn't believe their father had ever been young;

surely even in the cradle he had been a very,

very small man in a gray suit,

with a little dark mustache and flat, incurious eyes.

|| Richard Shattuck



Fathers, like mothers, are not born.

Men grow into fathers-

and fathering is

a very important stage in their development.

|| David M. Gottesman



It is a wise father that knows his own child.

|| William Shakespeare



It doesn't matter who my father was;

it matters who I remember he was.

|| Anne Sexton



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

|| Sigmund Freud



A Man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.

|| Unknown



The greatest gift I ever had

Came from God,

and I call him Dad!

|| Unknown

GREAT INSPIRATIONAL FATHER'S DAY QUOTES

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old || Proverbs 23:22

Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice, But a companion of harlots wastes his wealth || Proverbs 29:3




He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it || Clarence Budington Kelland

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty || Unknown

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. 
He never used the church as an adult nursery. 
|| Vance Havner
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

The Hebrew word for parents is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will ever have || Rabbi Kassel Abelson

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to be appreciative.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal.
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.  
|| Dorothy Nolte

FATHER'S DAY QUOTES

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today || Barbara Johnson



The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him || Proverbs 20:7 NKJV





A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house || Paul Lewis

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it || Clarence Budington Kelland

Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said || Mae Maloo

An effective father devotes himself to become an instrument and model of human experience to his children...accepts and affirms his children for who they are, appreciates them for what they are accomplishing, and covers them with affection because they are his || Gordon MacDonald

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters || George Herbert

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they had covered up || Unknown









He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it || Clarence Budington Kelland





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





When God measures a man, He puts the tape around the heart instead of the head || Unknown

Kids spell love T-I-M-E || John Crudele

How true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' 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









Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name || William Wordsworth





Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it || Clarence Budington Kelland





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





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





A father carries pictures where his money used to be || Unknown





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 || Unknown





Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown || Unknown





Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes || Gloria Naylor







The greatest gift I ever had

Came from God; I call him Dad! || Unknown





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





Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever || Unknown





There's one sad truth in life I've found

  While journeying east and west -

   The only folks we really wound

    Are those we love the best.

     We flatter those we scarcely know,

      We please the fleeting guest,

       And deal full many a thoughtless blow

        To those who love us best.

         || Ella Wheeler Wilcox





Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away || Dinah Craik