Father’s Day : Inspirational Quotes

Happy Father's Day

Remembering Daddy, Grandpa or a special Uncle this Sunday with a loving thought…

An interesting, humorous, witty and thought provoking collection of Fathers Day Inspirational 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 make 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.

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Philip Whitmore Snr

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

Fathers Day Quote by: Unknown

Fathers are angels sent from heaven.

Fathers Day Quote by: Unknown

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

Fathers Day Quote by: John Mayor

“Father I will always be that same boy who stood by the sea and watched you tower over me. Now I’m older I wanna be the same as you”

Fathers Day Quote by: Yellowcard

A father is someone that holds your hand at the fair, makes sure you do what your mother says, holds back your hair when you are sick, brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy, and lets you eat ice cream for breakfast… but only when mother is away.
He walks you down the aisle and tells you everything’s gonna be okay!
Fathers Day Quote by: Unknown

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Bartrand Hubbard

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.”

Fathers Day Quote by: Harmon Killebrew

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.

Fathers Day Quote by: George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Enid Bagnold

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Johann Schiller

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Fathers Day Quote by: Unknown

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Mark Twain, “Old Times on the Mississippi” Atlantic Monthly, 1874

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Gloria Naylor

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Phyllis Diller

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Fathers Day Quote by: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Red Buttons

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Lord Chesterfield

Don’t make a baby if you can’t be a father.

Fathers Day Quote by: National Urban League Slogan

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Helen Rowland

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Fathers Day Quote by: Austin O’Malley

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: William Penn

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Charles Wadworth

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Unknown

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.”

Fathers Day Quote by: Helen Hayes

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Fathers Day Quote by: William Shakespeare

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

Fathers Day Quote by: David Gottesman

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Sigmund Freud

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Jewish Proverb

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, on the death of his son

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Mario Cuomo

My father was a statesman, I’m a political woman. My father was a saint. I’m not.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Lee Iacocca

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

Fathers Day Quote by: Pope John XXIII

Noble fathers have noble children.

Fathers Day Quote by: Euripides

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Unknown

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

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.’

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: 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.

Fathers Day Quote by: Josefowitz

“Train up a child in the way which he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it”
Fathers Day Quote by: Proverbs 22:6