Father's Day Quotes

"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."

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

"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."

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

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

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

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

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

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

"Fatherhood is the greatest thing that could ever happen. You can't explain it until it happens."

"A father's job is not to teach his daughter how to be a lady. It's to teach her how a lady should be treated."

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

"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

"The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother."

"Dad: A son's first hero, a daughter's first love."

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

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get."

"No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child."

"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."

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

"Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough."

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

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

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

"Being a father means you have to think fast on your feet. You must be judicious, wise, brave and tender."

"Noble fathers have noble children."

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

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week."

"To be a father requires patience, love and giving up the all-about-me attitude."

"A dad is someone who holds you when you cry, scolds you when you break the rules, shines with pride when you succeed."

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

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

"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."

"A father's tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives."

"Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world."

"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."