Father Quotes that Inspire and Enlighten

Whatever your relationship with your father, the father quotes below will help you see him in a different light. Pick a favorite quote and embellish it with your own musings and reflections and send it to your dad. Do this as a father day gift, birthday gift or just to show you care. Although your dad may feel uncomfortable with the expression of feelings, take the first step and show him how it's done.

If you're a father, use the father quotes below in a two-fold fashion: to think about your relationship with your dad and how it has affected your relationship with your kids. Become the balancing point that connects yesterday's world with a bright outlook for tomorrow.

Copyright © 2004 by Laura Pickford Ramirez. All Rights Reserved.

Father Quotes: 1

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

~Kent Nerburn~

Dad Quotes: 2

Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.

~Kent Nerburn~

Father Quotes: 3

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

~Samuel Johnson~

Dad Quotes: 4

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.

~Thomas Wolfe~

Father Quotes: 5

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~

Father Quotes: 6

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 from scarlet fever.)

Father Quotes: 7

~Clarence Budington Kelland~

Dad Quotes: 8

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~

Father Quotes: 9

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

~Imelda Marcos~

Dad Quotes: 10

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

~Charles Wadsworth~

Father Quotes: 11

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

~Ruth E. Renkel~