Discover timeless wisdom on fatherhood from notable figures like Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, and Anne Geddes. Explore insightful quotes about the essence of fatherhood.
- Al Unser: “Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.”
- Aldous Huxley: “Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
- Anne Geddes: “Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
- Antoine François Prévost: “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
- Barack Obama: “Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
- Barack Obama: “I found that the best way to get advice on being a better father was to find the men who were doing it right and just watch them.”
- Billy Graham: “A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
- Bruce Springsteen: “The best way to measure a man’s honesty isn’t to ask him what he believes, but to watch what he does.”
- Charles Wadsworth: “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
- Clarence Budington Kelland: “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
- David Beckham: “My father was my hero. My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
- Denzel Washington: “The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They’re not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion—to care about people and about your children.”
- Euripides: “To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
- Frank A. Clark: “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
- Frank Pittman: “Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche: “A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.”
- George Herbert: “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
- George Strait: “Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end.”
- Harlan Coben: “When you’re young, you think your dad is Superman. Then you grow up, and you realize he’s just a regular guy who wears a cape.”
- Harmon Killebrew: “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.'”
- Harper Lee: “He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
- Hedy Lamarr: “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.”
- Henry James: “A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.”
- James A. Baldwin: “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
- Jean Paul: “To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
- Jim Valvano: “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”
- Jodi Picoult: “My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller: “It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
- John Green: “The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.”
- John Gregory Brown: “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
- John Wooden: “The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
- Keith Urban: “Being a father helps me be more responsible… you see more things than you’ve ever seen.”
- Kent Nerburn: “It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
- Liza Minnelli: “I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
- Lori Heyman Gordon: “Fatherhood is the art of guiding your children with love, teaching them through your actions, and nurturing their dreams with unwavering support.”
- Lori Heyman Gordon: “A father’s love is a beacon that illuminates the path for his children, showing them the way with compassion and wisdom.”
- Lori Heyman Gordon: “Fatherhood is a commitment to being present, to listening with empathy, and to empowering your children to become their best selves.”
- Lydia Maria Child: “Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!”
- Margaret Truman: “It’s only when you grow up and step back from him—or leave him for your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.”
- Mario Cuomo: “I watched a small man with thick calluses on both his hands work fifteen and sixteen 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.”
- Mark Twain: “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 he had learned in seven years.”
- Michael Jordan: “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 Ratnadeepak: “The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams, and aspirations he sets not only for himself but for his family.”
- Reed Markham: “Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.”
- Reed Markham: “The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.”
- Robert Frost: “You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.”
- Ruth E. Renkel: “Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
- Seth Eisenberg: “Fatherhood is not about perfection, but rather the willingness to be present, to show love, and to guide with patience and understanding.”
- Seth Eisenberg: “Fatherhood is a journey of constant learning, where every moment with your child is an opportunity to grow together in love and understanding.”
- Seth Eisenberg: “Being a father means embracing the joys and challenges of raising a child, and finding strength and inspiration in the bond you share.”
- Sigmund Freud: “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
- Stanley T. Banks (Father of the Bride): “You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero.”
- T. S. Eliot: “It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.”
- Tiger Woods: “My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.”
- Tom Wolfe: “He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.”
- Umberto Eco: “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.”
- Will Smith: “The keys to being a great dad are being present and loving unconditionally.”
- William Shakespeare: “It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
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