Fatherhood Inspirational Quotes

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 little scraps of wisdom.

Umberto Eco

Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

Fathers Day, Inspiration, Pride

FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 21, 2016

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

Friedrich Schiller

Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

Life, Fathers Day, Children

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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

Love, Funny, Motivational

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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

Kent Nerburn

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!

John Walter Bratton

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

Family, Wise, Meaningful

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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

Jim Valvano

Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day

George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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

Fanny Fern

Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Mario Cuomo

Inspirational, Dad, Hard Work

1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.

Angelo Patri

Children, Father, Journey

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert

Fathers Day, Dad, Rip

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Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Bill Cosby

Family, Fathers Day, Children

Bill Cosby (1989). “Selected from Fatherhood and Time Flies”, Signal Hill Publications

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

Anne Sexton

Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

"A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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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, Fathers Day, Strong

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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

William Wordsworth

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.307

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

Confucius

Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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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

Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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

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He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

Margaret Truman Daniel

Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up

"On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

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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, Fathers Day

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

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