Inspirational Father's Day Quotes

Father's Day Quotes and Sayings

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

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"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song."
~~ Pam Browne

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"The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched."
~~ Justin Ricklefs

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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

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

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"A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart."
~~ KidsGen Original

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"With every sacrifice, you built a world where I could fly. Thank you, Dad."
~~ KidsGen Original

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"You didn’t tell me how to live; you lived, and let me watch you do it."
~~ Clarence Budington Kelland

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"Fatherhood is not a role, it's a legacy."
~~ KidsGen Original

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

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

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"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."
~~ Victoria, Queen of England

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"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
~~ Gabriel García Márquez

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"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee."
~~ Margaret Courtney

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"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"
~~ Lydia M. Child

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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
~~Johann Schiller

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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.
~~Author Unknown

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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
-Harry S Truman

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
-Lydia M. Child

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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
~~Richard Henry Dana

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One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
-Anonymous

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When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
-Jan Hutchins

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-Mark Twain

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

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I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
-Bartrand Hubbard

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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
-Samuel Johnson

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You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic.
- Stanley T. Banks

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

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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
-Imelda Marcos

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Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
~~Amy Heckerling

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If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
~~Ray Romano

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I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
~~Hedy Lamarr