Fathers Quotes

"The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family."

Reed Markham

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

Jim Valvano

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Sigmund Freud

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."

Anne Geddes

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

George Herbert

"Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."

Frank Pittman

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

Charles Wadsworth

"There is no more vital calling or vocation for men than fathering."

John Eldredge

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

Billy Graham

"It's clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

Gloria Steinem

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."

Friedrich Schiller

"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."

Abbé Prévost

"When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back."

Linda Poindexter

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

Fanny Fern

"Lately all my friends are worried they're turning into their fathers. I'm worried I'm not."

Dan Zevin

"Father! To God himself we cannot give a holier name."

William Wordsworth

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

Theodore Hesburgh

"Life doesn't come with an instruction book—that's why we have fathers."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

German Proverb

“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

Clarence Budington Kelland

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”

Jim Valvano

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.”

Umberto Eco

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

Sigmund Freud