Fathers Day Quotes - Page 3

• The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Baby, Successful, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Kids, Achievement

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• 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.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Brother, Uncles, Husband

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

  Euripides

  Children, Disappointment, Grief

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Children, Dad

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• And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

  William Penn

  Family, Wisdom, Dad

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• 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.

  Ben Okri

  Courage, Adversity, Men

  "Ben Okri: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• 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 for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

  John Gregory Brown

  Running, Mother Daughter, Dad

  John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

  Yehuda Berg

  Voice, Certainty In Life, Path

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• Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Inspirational, Baseball, Baby

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• My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

  Spike Milligan

  Jesus, Confused, Names

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• Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

  Conrad Hall

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father Son

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• Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

  Naveen Jain

  Inspiration, Pride, Unconditional Love

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 21, 2016

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Dad, Children, Son

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

  William Shakespeare

  Dad, Son, Giving

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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dad, Men, Father Son

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Daughter, Strong, Dad

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Children

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• It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

  Kent Nerburn

  Dad, Father Son, Fatherhood

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• The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Karma, Soul, Important

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

  Fanny Fern

  Daughter, Dad, Father Son

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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