Inspirational Dad Quotes to Celebrate Fatherhood

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A dad is someone who is always there to catch you when you fall. One thing is for certain, fathers are a source of strength to their children. They will never quit believing in you, no matter what challenges you find yourself facing. A father loves you unconditionally and wants nothing more than the best for you in life. Having a father means growing up with someone who teaches you how to be a good person and do the right things because they

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Fathers are there for their children no matter what. They teach them how to have a better life and they show them their worth.

He is someone who many people rely on to make them feel better, even when they are down. He always stands ready for you when things get tough and will listen attentively if you need a shoulder to lean on.

Dads are the best people to ask for parenting advice. They know all the secrets of a dad and what it takes to be a good parent.

Here are some of the greatest dad quotes to celebrate Fatherhood:

• “When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, Daddy, will you take me to the zoo? He answered, if the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.” —Jerry Lewis
• “A good father is one whose only reason for putting down a laughing baby is to pick up a crying one.” —Linda Poindexter
• “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.” —Lisa Rogers
• “It’s the most profound gift and the most daunting challenge.”-Matt Bomer
• “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” —Charles Wadworth

• “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” —Antoine François Prévost
• “If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.” —James Baldwin
• “Dads are like chocolate chip cookies; they may have chips or be totally nutty, but they are sweet and make the world a better place, especially for their children.” —Hillary Lytle
• “Great fathers don’t find fault. Great fathers find solutions.” —Reed Markham
• “The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child.” —Roy Lessin

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• “Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.” —Unknown
• “The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide.” —Mike Sager
• “It’s not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son.” —Johann Schiller
• “Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.” Markus Zusak,
• “A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.” sarah ruhl,
• “Dad: A son’s first hero, a daughter’s first love.” —Unknown
• “I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.” John Green,
• “A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.” ―Ama H. Vanniarachchy
• “My children’s happiness, their safety, and their well-being, is the most paramount thing in my life. You just want to protect them at all costs.”-John Krasinski
• “Life doesn’t come with an instruction book—that’s why we have fathers.”-H. Jackson Browne
• “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
• “I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she’s not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she’s perfect as she is.”-Idris Elba
• “Uncle: someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love.” —Unknown
• “No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.” —Michael Ratnadeepak

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• “Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes….” Barack Obama,
• “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” —Frank A. Clark
• “There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.” —Alison Lohman

• “I always thought you’d make a great dad. Now, I know it. Happy Father’s Day to an amazing husband.” —Unknown
• “A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” —Unknown
• “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” —Sigmund Freud
• “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” Shannon L. Alder
• “I’ve gotten to jump out of helicopters and do daring stunts and play baseball in a professional stadium, but none of them mean anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.”-Chris Pratt
• “To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms, but absolutely terrified of the word boo.” —Robert Brault
• “Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.” —Dave Barry
• “I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father,” she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?” Jodi Picoult
• “Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you’re twelve, but every day.” —Mike Meyers
• “It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.” —John Sinor
• “Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”-Wade Boggs

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• “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” —Emily Dickinson
• “The only thing better than having you for a husband is our children having you for a daddy.” —Unknown
• “Just once on Father’s Day, I wish my kids would give me a #1 Dad mug instead of one with my actual ranking.” —Andy Borowitz
• “My daughter got me a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. So we know she’s sarcastic.” —Bob Odenkirk
• “I’ve been to war. I’ve raised twins. If I had a choice, I’d rather go to war.” —George W. Bush
• “Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
• “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you.” —Desmond Tutu

• “My stepdad may not have given me life, but he sure has made my life better.” —Gerardo Campbell
• “I think [parenthood] brings out the child in all of us. That’s what’s so beautiful. It reminds you of the fascination you had with things, and how you can spend hours just being with someone. It’s amazing.”-Chris Hemsworth
• “Happy Fathers’ Day, Dad! I wouldn’t trade you for anything. Of course, nobody’s offered me anything.” —Melanie White
• “When my father didn’t have my hand… he had my back.” —Linda Poindexter

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• “Children learn to smile from their parents.” —Shinichi Suzuki
• “The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched.” —Justin Ricklefs
• “It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” —Barack Obama
• “Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.” —John Mayer
• “My Father’s Day gift to you is letting you pretend to be in charge of the family for a day.” —Unknown
• “You gotta love dads. At my wedding, when I tripped on my wedding dress and fell flat on my face, Dad said, “Don’t worry, you’ll do better next time.”” —Melanie White
• “Sundays too my father got up early Robert Hayden,
• “No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word―father.” —Lydia Maria Child

• “Fatherhood is a marathon, not a sprint.” —Paul L. Lewis
• “An uncle is a blessing. It means so many things. Words could never tell the joy an uncle brings. An uncle is a bond of faith that even time can’t sever, a gift to last all of our lives. An uncle is forever.” —Irene Banks
• “I feel that the greatest gift that I can give my children is the freedom to be who they are.”-Will Smith
• “What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.” —Jean Paul
• “Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Markus Zusak,
• “Success, and even life itself, wouldn’t be worth anything if I didn’t have my children by my side. They mean everything to me.”-Jude Law
• “You can tell what was the best year of your father’s life because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.” —Jerry Seinfeld
• “There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.” —Joni Eareckson Tada
• “A father’s words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house.” —Paul Lewis
• “Everyone has an uncle who tried to steal their nose. ” —Peter Clay
• “Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.” —Lydia Maria Child
• “A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you.” —Dimitri the Stoneheart
• “The nature of fatherhood is that you’re doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified when you do it.” —John Green
• “To her, the name of father was another name for love.” —Fanny Fern
• “A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.” —Émile Gaboriau
• “A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.” —Knights of Pythagoras
• “[My father] has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.” —Chelsea Clinton
• “Uncles are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” —Unknown
• “A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.” —Unknown
• “It’s legitimately the greatest thing ever…It just makes me want to be better.”-Ashton Kutcher
• “Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing father.” —Unknown
• “The only way I can describe it—it sounds stupid, but—at the end of -Matt Damon
• “America used to live by the motto “Father Knows Best.” Now we’re lucky if “Father Knows He Has Children.” We’ve become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.” Stephen Colbert,
• “They didn’t do anything, they just exist and you love them completely, but it’s not built on anything other than their existence.”-John Legend
• “My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]” John Burnside,
• “Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence” Wm. Paul Young,
• “Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.” Victor Devlin
• “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.” —Dave Attell
• “Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken and there’s a lot of throwing up.”-Ray Romano
• “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” —Jim Valvano

• “Fathers just have a way of putting everything together.” —Erika Cosby
• “In my career, there are many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family.”-David Beckham
• “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.” —Margaret Truman/span>
• “I feel like the success of parenthood is feeling like I failed all day today, but I get to wake up tomorrow and do it again and hopefully they turn out to be a good human being.”-Justin Timberlake
• “He never treated me like I was a package deal. I wasn’t a burden in his eyes, I was a bonus.” —Ashley Stock
• “She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.” —Harper Lee
• “Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.” —Frank Abagnale
• “Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.” —Terri Guillemets
• “We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” —Henry Ward Beecher
• “Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.” —Al Unser
• “The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” —Anjaneth Garcia Untalan
• “A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” —Unknown
• “Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.” —Unknown
• “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.”-Denzel Washington
• “Father!—to God himself we cannot give a holier name!” —William Wordsworth
• “There are three stages of a man’s life: he believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.” —Unknown
• “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• “An uncle is like a dad only cooler.” ——Unknown
• “No man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.” —Hedy Lamarr
• “There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years, it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.” —John Gregory Brown
• “Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” —Ruth E. Renkel
• “Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end.”-George Strait
• “Good fathers do three things: they provide, they nurture and they guide.” —Roland Warren
• “Daddy,” I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. “I love you.” Morgan Matson,
• “My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” ―Clarence Budington Kelland
• “Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride, and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back, and taught me how to be a better person.” —Naveen Jain
• “A girl’s first true love is her father.” —Marisol Santiago
• “A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.” —Emile Gaboriau
• “Only the best brothers get promoted to uncle.” —Unknown
• “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.” —Umberto Eco
• “Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.” —Anne Geddes
• “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.” —Tim Russert
• “Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life.” —Hugh Jackman
• “Every son’s first superhero is his father.”-Tiger Shroff
• “Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.”-Reed Markham
• “A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” —Steve Martin
• “An amazing uncle is like a glass of refreshing lemonade in the hot summer of life.” —Unknown
• “It’s the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. You realize what’s important in life.”-Jimmy Fallon
• “Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands, yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.” Roman Payne,
• “You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.” —Robert Frost
• “A father is a banker provided by nature.” —French proverb
• “One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” —Joy Hargrove
• “The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.” —Dan Pearce
• “Average fathers have patience. Good fathers have more patience. Great fathers have an ocean of patience.” —Reed Markham
• “Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion them that the daughters have to conform to.” Simone de Beauvoir,
• “The thrill of being a great father is not seeing your children go on to become successful adults. The thrill of a great father is the journey, experiencing your child’s successes along the pathway to their greatness.” —Reed Markham
• “Everything is more colorful, more exciting. Music, you know, sounds better. He’s just a beautiful little boy.”-John Stamos
• “The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but the latter gives his life.” ―Craig D. Lounsbrough
• “I smile because you’re my uncle. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.” —Unknown
• “Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.” —Victor Hugo
• “It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” —Johann Schiller
• “My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.” —Spike Milligan
• “When you need real understanding, when you need someone to care, when you need someone to guide you … A father’s always there.” —Thomas J. Langley
• “WHe was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.” —George Saunders
• “My father couldn’t warm my frozen hands.” Tahereh Mafi,
• “It’s all about you not trying to decide what your daughter or son should be or what you want them to be, it’s all about loving them no matter who they are or what they decide to do.”-Magic Johnson
• “When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” —The Talmud
• “A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.” —Susan Gale
• “My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do—be there.” —Max Lucado
• “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” —Anthony Brandt
• “Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father’s head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.” George R.R. Martin,
• “I have a daughter who’s going to be raised in this world, and my music and my art are powerful tools in getting that to be formed the way I want it to.”-Chance the Rapper
• “Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.” —Jon Stewart
• “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” —William Shakespeare
• “What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib, and to hang her name up in the stars.” Jodi Picoult,
• “Hadley realizes that even though everything else is different, even though there’s still an ocean between them, nothing really important has changed at all. Jennifer E. Smith,
• “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” —Anne Sexton
• “I never knew how much I loved your daddy until I saw how much he loved you.” —Unknown
• “A happy family is a reflection of a good father and a loving husband.” —Unknown
• “The best dads get promoted to grandpa.” —Unknown
• “Grandpas bring a little wisdom, happiness, warmth, and love to every life they touch.” —Unknown
• “A dad is someone who wants to catch you when you fall. Instead, he picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again.” —Unknown
• “When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.”-Hugh Jackman
• “Fatherhood is the greatest thing that could ever happen. You can’t explain it until it happens—it’s like telling someone what water feels like before they’ve ever swam in it.”-Michael Bublé
• “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
• “[Fatherhood is] the greatest thing that could ever happen. You can’t explain it until it happens; it’s like telling somebody what water feels like before they’ve ever swam in it.” —Michael Bublé
• “Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.” —Pam Brown
• “A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” —Unknown
• “That was when the world wasn’t so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.” Markus Zusak,
• “Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective.”-Brad Pitt
• “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” —George Herbert
• “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.” —Enid Bagnold