They Said What About Dad? 80 Quotes for Father’s Day

There’s nothing more contagious than the dignity of 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.

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

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

My dad’s my best mate, and he always will be.

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

Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son.

A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Noble fathers have noble children.

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

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.

Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end.

Words have an awesome impact. The impression made by a father’s voice can set in motion an entire trend of life.

A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.

A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.

Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.

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.’

My Dad is my hero.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Dads are stone skimmers, mud wallowers, water wallopers, ceiling swoopers, shoulder gallopers, upsy-downsy, over-and-through, round-and-about whoosers. Dads are smugglers and secret sharers.

What do I owe my father? Everything.

Children of the new millennium when change is likely to continue and stress will be inevitable, are going to need, more than ever, the mentoring of an available father.

A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.

My father always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

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

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

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Children need models rather than critics.

I only hope when I have my own family that everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

I’ve learned that a father’s blessing can fill a son’s soul to the brim.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

I admire my father greatly.

A family needs a father to anchor it.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what anything means, until he has a child and loves it.

It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.

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

I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

It’s only when you grow up and step back from him – or leave him for your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his great-ness and fully appreciate it.

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.

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.

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.

Up on his shoulders… is where I love to be.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

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.’

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.

Dads don’t need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

The best way of training the young is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be seen never doing that of which you would admonish them.

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

Being great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.

‘Father’ is the noblest title a man can be given. It is more than a biological role. It signifies a patriarch, a leader, an exemplar, a confidant, a teacher, a hero, a friend.

My role model is my dad.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.

My role model is my dad.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.

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

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.

There are many kinds of success in life worth having… But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by the little scraps of wisdom

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

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

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

If all the fathers in the world held out their hand in friendship, yours is the one I’d hold.

It’s not the fishin’… It’s the time together.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

The first man a little girl falls in love with is her Dad.

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.

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

His heritage to his children wasn’t words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.