Father’s Day Inspirational Quotes And Sayings

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Looking for some Father’s Day inspirational quotes and sayings? Check out these inspiring quotes about dad.

“I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.”
– Al Unser

“For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.”
– Alan Valentine

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

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
– Alexander the Great

“The greatest thing a FATHER can do to his children, is to love their mother.”
– Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

“How true Daddy’s words were when he said: ‘All children must look after their own upbringing.’ Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
– Anne Frank

“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
– Anne Sexton

“If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.”
– Antonio Gramsci

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.”
– Austin O’Malley

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

“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

“The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
– Bertrand Russell

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
– Billy Graham, Christian Evangelist

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

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

“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

“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

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

“Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.”
– Conrad Hall

“I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.”
– Dante Hall

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

“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

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life.”
– Elbert Hubbard

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

“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
– Ephesians 4:6

“You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.”
– Erika Cosby

“To be a successful father there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. ”
– Euripedes

“Noble fathers have noble children.”
– Euripides

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
– Euripides

“Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
– Exodus 12:20

“I’m always going to love my father.”
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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