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

Billy Graham

Inspirational, Fathers Day, Father Son

Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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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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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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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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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

Bill Cosby

Funny, Fathers Day, Children

Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

Kent Nerburn

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fathers Day, Dad, Men

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby

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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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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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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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There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Alison Lohman

Fathers Day, Men, Father Son

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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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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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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Jon Stewart

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

"Late Night with Conan O'Brien", January 29, 2009.

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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Margaret Thatcher

Family, Daughter, Fathers Day

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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot

Love, Friendship, Relationship

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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, Fathers Day, Wisdom

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

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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Harper Lee

Dad, War, Father

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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