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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My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Tiger Woods

Fathers Day, Husband, Dad

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

William Shakespeare

Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Robert Orben

Family, Fathers Day, Mother

Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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

Lydia M. Child

Family, Fathers Day, Children

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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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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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I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Adam Sandler

Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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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.'

Michael Jordan

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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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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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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Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Lord Chesterfield

Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

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Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Frank Abagnale

Fathers Day, Husband, Real

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

Conrad Hall

Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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