200+ Father Quotes – Meaningful Quotes About Dads

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Rabah Hasan Eva

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Fatherhood, a role marked by strength, guidance, and unconditional love, is celebrated through heartwarming quotes that touch our souls.

“Best Father Quotes to Explore Your Love” are not just words; they encapsulate children’s emotions for their dads. These quotes serve as a bridge between unspoken feelings and heartfelt gratitude.

People use these “Best Father Quotes to Explore Your Love” to show their heartfelt gratitude, recall fond memories, and recognize their fathers’ extraordinary influence on their life. In the following lines, we will delve into a collection of poignant “Best Father Quotes to Explore Your Love that beautifully encapsulates the essence of this unbreakable bond.

Best Father Quotes to Explore Your Love

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. – Manon Lescaut

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. —George Herbert

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song. — Pam Brown

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. – Walter Scott

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

There’s no shame in fear,’ my father told me, ‘what matters is how we face it. – George R.R. Martin

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: It’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body. – Christopher Hitchens

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

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. – Harmon Killebrew

I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more. – Gordon Brown

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

No word makes me happier than the word “Daddy” uttered by one of my children. – Michael Josephson

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes. –Walter M. Schirra Sr.

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

A father is a banker provided by nature. – French Proverb

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. — Beau Bridges

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

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. – Frank A. Clark

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. — Euripides

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

To her, the name of father was another name for love. — Fanny Fern

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. – Friedrich Nietzsche

I think a father is someone, Who loves unconditionally, There is no perfect formula, To who a father can be. – Julie Hebert

He’s still her dad. The rest is just geography. – Jennifer E. Smith

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. ― Dan Brown

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. — Billy Graham

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. — Paul Valery

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. – William Hurt

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

Learn something well so you can always make a living. – Sherwood Anderson

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

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, I’m not saying that… It does take a father, though. – TOM DELAY

There is wisdom in every man, in every father, in your father. And that’s true whether you love him or despise him. – Joe Kita

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

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

We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher

Some dads liken the impending birth of a child to the beginning of a great journey. – Marcus Jacob Goldman

Fathers provide not only support but also encouragement. – Catherine Pulsifer

My Dad, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. – Gwyneth Paltrow

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband, and friend. — Tiger Woods

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.— David Duchovny

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. – Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. — Richard Bach

I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. ― John Green

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad. —Jack Baker

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. – Hippocrates

Father, Dad, Papa, no matter what you call them they influence our lives and they are the person we look up to. – Catherine Pulsifer

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

A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives. – Ama H.Vanniarachchy

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man. ― Mario Puzo

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

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

I would define a leader as a person who puts the welfare of the group above himself. It’s the same thing with fathers. – Etan Thomas

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. — Margaret Atwood

My father had taught me to be nice first because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them. – Laurell K. Hamilton

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating … too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life. – John Wooden

A father is a man that has two or more souls to save or lose. – AUSTIN O’MALLEY

Father! — to God himself, we cannot give a holier name. – William Wordsworth

It was my father who taught me to value myself. – Dawn French

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half, especially if he has a teenage daughter. – Guy Lombardo

Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don’t do this well, no other thing I do really matters. – Michael Josephson

The best way of training the young is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be seen never doing that of which you would admonish them. – Plato

A father should present the fundamental qualities of leadership, responsibility, and accountability, as well as the capabilities of planning, disciplining and loving. Fathering is a full-time job. – Myles Munroe

The most important influence in my childhood was my dad. – DeForest Kelley

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself but for his family. — Reed Markham

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun. — Bindi Irwin

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. – Alan Valentine

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. ― Markus Zusak

Of all the titles I’ve been privileged to have, ‘Dad’ has always been the best. ― Ken Norton

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word. – Elizabeth

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much. – Hedy Lamarr

If you ever want to torture my dad, tie him up and right in front of him, refold a map incorrectly. – Cathy Ladman

A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him. – Richelle E. Goodrich

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

I love my father as the stars—he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. —Terri Guillemets

Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. — Anne Geddes

There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. – Dean Koontz

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! – Lydia M. Child

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. – Jodi Picoult

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. — Pope John XXIII

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad–aka the Fun-Sucker–as opposed to being a friend. – JAMES PATTERSON

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. – Ziad K. Abdelnour

Rich men’s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers. – Herbert Kaufman

It is a wise father that knows his own child. – William Shakespeare

One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Howard W. Hunter

A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day. – Susan Gale

Never before in the history of men and women have expectant fathers been so involved in the pregnancy process. – Harlan Cohen

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. — Tim Russert

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

My father taught me a good lesson: Don’t get too low when things go wrong. And don’t get too high when things are good. – Robert Parish

No one in this world can love a girl more than her father. — Michael Ratnadeepak

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

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice. ― Charles Kettering

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Recently I noticed my father’s watch in a dark corner of my safety deposit box. Its presence there exemplified the great value I had assigned it. As I turned the watch in my hand, I remembered my father’s commitment to being on time … always … if not early. – Harold Ivan Smith

The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time. – Ben Marcus

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. – Stanley T. Banks

When I was small I felt like a Superhero as my father threw me up in the air. Now after reaching this success peak I unmask – Real Superhero made me Superhero! ― Hasil Paudyal

A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. – Emile Gaboriau

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you …they are understating it. — Mike Myers

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. – Miguel Indurain

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. — Albert Camus

I gave my father $100 and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother. – Rita Rudner

He was there when I didn’t understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried, he was there when I lied. For some reason my dad was always there, when I needed him the most. His love was never ending. And now that he’s gone, there is an emptiness in my world but not in my heart. — Michael Jordan

If only I could be freed of this quest for the father. Father? Savior? God? – ANAÏS NIN

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. – Ruth E. Renkel

My dad’s my best mate, and he always will be. – Cher Lloyd

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton

It’s a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping – more than once. – Michael Josephson

If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die. – Leo Buscaglia

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I’m just glad I can share my voice. – Dwayne Wade

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good dad. – Orson Scott Card

My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly. — Adria Arjona

A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men. – Gregory E. Lang

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best. – Scott Eastwood

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, “Daddy, I need to ask you something,” he is a part of the butter in a hot frying pan. – Garrison Keillor

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a that the daughters have to conform to. ― Simone de Beauvoir

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

When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission. – Ezra Taft Benson

Part of the reason that Lombardi’s players were willing to work with him was that he nurtured and cared for them like a father. When Lombardi succeeded, so did they. – Donald T. Phillips

A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness. – Ben Sirach

There’s no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. – Tony Dungy

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but the latter gives his life. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end. —George Straight

The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched. — Justin Ricklefs

I encourage all fathers to focus on the intangibles because those are the gifts that make the difference. – Asha Patrick

Dads are stone skimmers, mud wallowers, water wallopers, ceiling swoopers, shoulder gallopers, ups-downs, over-and-through, round-and-about whoopers. Dads are smugglers and secret sharers. — Helen Thomson

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain

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

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age. – ARISTOPHANES

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

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. – Nick Lachey

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

I have found the very best way to advise your children is to find out what they want to do and advise them to do it. – President Harry Truman

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. – J. August Strindberg

Being a father is a PRIVILEGE. It is nothing short of amazing! – Larry Hagner

What works for one couple or father may not work for another couple or father. You will need to research to locate or help find your comfort zone for you and your growing family. – Jacob Westlin

My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up. — Joe Biden

Being a daddy’s girl is like having permanent armor for the rest of your life. – Marinela Reka

With sons and fathers, there’s an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. – Brad Pitt

He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years. – Anthony Doerr

My father couldn’t warm my frozen hands. ― Tahereh Mafi

He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector. ―Tom Wolfe

My biggest challenge for myself is to be the best father I can be and be the best husband I can be. -Sonny Bill Williams

To be a father requires patience, love and giving up the ‘all about me’ attitude. – Catherine Pulsifer

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

A good Dad is able to smile when there is little to smile about. – Jake Slope

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not. ― Carew Papritz

Be nice to your dad. Most of the fatherhood feels like going through customs with an outdated passport. -Jim Gaffigan

Father is the noblest title a man can be given. — Robert L. Backman

The extension of the positive characteristics of a father can contribute more to the healing of a nation than all the money-laden do good programs combined. It is these caring, compassionate, respectful and loving attributes that can not only encourage and heal a family, but can be extended outward to a neighborhood, a town, a city, a territory, a region, and a country. – Byron R. Pulsifer

Doubly rich is the man still boyish enough to play, laugh, and sing as he carries and emanates sunshine along a friendly road. — Charles R. Wiers

The kindest words my father said to me women like you drown oceans. – Rupi Kaur

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 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. — Mario Cuomo

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does. – BERTRAND RUSSELL

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. – Jean-Paul Richter

A father carries pictures where his money used to be. – Steve Martin

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. – Thomas Fuller

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

Parenthood remains the single greatest preserve of the amateur. – Alvin Toffler

As fathers, we understand that we have the opportunity to image forth God’s love to our family. – Matt Click

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

It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. – Barack Obama

The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother. – Elaine S. Dalton

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds. – Terri Guillemets

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters, there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry. ― Joni Eareckson Tada

That’s the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in check. – Sonny Bill Williams

You may not have an earthly father that cares for you, but you have a heavenly one that does. -Angelina Talpa

A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life. – Dr. James Dobson

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do. – Aristotle

The amount of time we give to something indicates it’s important to us. ― Jim George

Being a dad isn’t just about eating a huge bag of gummy bears as your wife gives birth. It means being comfortable with the word hero. – Ryan Reynolds

When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back. — Linda Poindexter

The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. – Frank Pittman

His heritage to his children wasn’t words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father. — Will Rogers Jr.

Your father’s not young when your small is he, he’s not any age, he’s more power. – CARYL CHURCHILL

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

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. – Chinese Proverb

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

A real man loves his wife and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. – Frank Abagnale

If the past cannot teach the present, and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban

Becoming a good father is not automatic – it takes time and effort. We must be willing to invest in this job – our most important, second to being a husband – as any other career we might pursue. – Dr. John C. Maxwell

We looked up at our father. He still is much greater than us. – Wynton Marsalis

Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn. — Matthew McConaughey

The reason why daughters love their dad the most is…that there is at least one man in the world who will never hurt her. – Anonymous

Every son’s first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined. – Tiger Shroff

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue and joined in thy innocent glee. – Margaret Courtney

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

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed. – Klaus Fuchs

Fatherly love is the act of giving your life for the sake of someone else’s needs. – Nate Dalla

He was a father. That’s what a father does. It eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime. – George Saunders

Becoming a dad is one thing – being a dad is many things. – Steve Chapman

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father. ― Habeeb Akande

quotes about death of a father from daughter

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. — John Stewart

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

See you spend your whole life fighting with your father and no time on making your own life. What will you do when he dies? Fight yourself? – CHRIS ABANI

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. – Victoria Secunda

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it’s definitely a journey I’m glad to be taking. -Christopher Meloni

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

We think our Fathers Fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so. – Alexander Pope

Being a father truly is a blessing and a role not to be taken for granted. – Derek Polen

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness, and being on time. All very important lessons. – Roger Moore

As a father, you must have the mindset that being a dad is your most important job. — Mark Merrill