Inspirational Quotes about Father – Motivational Sayings, Thoughts, Proverbs

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

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. ~Hank Williams, Jr.

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. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

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

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. ~Robert Brault,

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. ~Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat. ~Robert Frost

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children. ~Cindy Garner

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. ~Reed Markham

Fathers represent another way of looking at life — the possibility of an alternative dialogue. ~Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978

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, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

I killed the monsters. That’s what fathers do. ~F.K. Wallace, Stormfront, 2011

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ~Quentin Crisp

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. ~Author Unknown

Be a dad. Don’t be “Mom’s Assistant”…. Be a man…. Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can’t dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids…. It won’t take away your manhood, it will give it to you. ~Louis C.K.

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

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. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O’Toole!)