Father's Day Quotes

An interesting, humorous, witty and thought provoking collection of Fathers Day Famous Quotes by some of the most celebrated and revered personalities of our times.

Read these Fathers Day Quotes for an insight into the lives of fathers at various stages of fatherhood. You will acknowledge and appreciate the ups and downs in a fathers life with these words of wisdom on fathers and fatherhood. When you read these motivational quotes on Fathers Day notice how the life of the father can be both beautiful, interesting and at the same time be extremely challenging and difficult. Quote these Fathers Day one liners in the Fathers Day Card you made for Papa and express your gratitude for all the pains he took to bring you up. Tell father how much he deserves to be appreciated and applauded for being the most wonderful person in your life.

Father's Day quotes for Dad

"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad."
– Anne Geddes

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

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

"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
– Pope John XXIII

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
– William Shakespeare

Father's Day Quotes for Grandfather

"Strength is where my Grandfather is."
-Unknown

"A Grandfather is someone who chooses the least for himself and the best for his children."
-Unknown

"There is strength everywhere when you are there Grandpa."
-Sonali Pathak

"My Grandfather is the person who taught me the first lessons of life. Happy Father's Day Grandpa"
-Sonali Pathak

"The stories of my grandfather's velour are some of the things that have a tremendous influence on my life. Happy Father's Day to the strongest Man, my grandfather"
-Sonali Pathak

Father's Day quotes for Father-in-law

"It's been only a few years that I have known you but, I think you have become an inspiration in my life." Happy Father's Day my dear Father-in-law!

"The most significant contribution we could ever make to the world is treating our father well. Happy Father's Day"

"The hero of my life is my father-in-law and he has played all the important roles in life."

"I know you are not my birth father but the day you entered into my life, I felt a special kind of strength."

"I cannot thank you enough for being there. Lots of love to my Father-in-law"

Father's Day Quotes for Elder Brother

"You have done everything for me that a father would have done. I am overwhelmed to have a brother like you. Happy Father's Day brother"

"My brother is my ultimate strength. Happy Father's Day"

"The more I am growing, the more I am becoming aware of all the sacrifices of my brother."

"I have not known my father much, but I have known the fatherly love of my brother and that makes me feel blessed."

"Do you know why I don't miss my father? Because, I have a father like brother! Happy Father's Day"

Father's Day Quotes for Stepfather

"My stepfather has always acted as my real father. I love him for that"

"Not all the stepfathers are the same because I have the most loving stepfather of the world."

"My stepfather has always been a transparent mirror to the world. Happy Father's Day"

"My stepfather is a perfect example of fatherhood."

"Being loved by stepfather is one of the things that provide me strength. Happy Father's Day"

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Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!
Philip Whitmore Snr

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.
John Mayor

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

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

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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

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

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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.
Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day
should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Phyllis Diller

Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

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

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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

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

Don't make a baby if you can't be a father.
National Urban League Slogan

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley

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

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn

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

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
Unknown

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."
Helen Hayes

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

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

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
David Gottesman

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud

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

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

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 in the movie 'Father of the Bride'

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

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, on the death of his son

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Knights of Pythagoras

"When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.
Frederick Buechner, 'Whistling in the Dark'

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both 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.
Mario Cuomo

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
Indira Gandhi

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
King George V

4 years: My Daddy can do anything!
7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.
8 years: My father does not know quite everything.
12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.
14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.
21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!
25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much.
30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.
35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first.
50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.
Fathers Day Quote by: Unknown

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca

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

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

Father, whom I murdered every night but one,
That one, when your death murdered me.
Howard Moss, Elegy for My Father (l. 1-2)

Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides

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

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.
Unknown

If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
Chinese Proverb

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

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Josefowitz

"Train up a child in the way which he should go
and when he is old he will not depart from it"
Proverbs 22:6

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