Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Fathers. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Fathers Quotes and Sayings from 91 influential authors, including Frank Pittman,John Walter Bratton,Greg Schiano,Lauren Leto,Joseph A. Cirrincione, for you to enjoy and share.

Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity. By Frank Pittman Men Father Boy Supposed World

Dad's are the treasures of the world! By John Walter Bratton Dad World Treasures

Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders. By Greg Schiano Dads Homes Leaders Kids

All fathers who don't read like Guy Fieri. By Lauren Leto Fieri Guy Fathers Read

Since human fatherhood, as a reflection of the Fatherhood of God, was designed to be the pillar of the family, the disappearance of esteem for fatherhood has led to the collapse of that pillar and to the disintegration of the family. By Joseph A. Cirrincione Family Fatherhood God Pillar Human

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers. By Gloria Gaynor Grew Mother Father Fathers Long

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. By Brad Pitt Sons Inexplicable Connection Imprint Leaves

There are many men but rare fathers By Bernard Kelvin Clive Fathers Men Rare

A father is a hard thing to compass. By Junot Diaz Compass Father Hard Thing

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. By Ezra Taft Benson Home Training Important Role Play

Fathers, on the other hand, were there to toughen children up, to say Walk it off when mothers would hold them if they fell. Mothers were the carrot. Fathers were the stick. By Noah Hawley Walk Hand Fell Fathers Mothers

When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it? By Jonathan Safran Foer Dad

Our fathers never leave us. Ever. By Brad Meltzer Fathers Leave

My dad is a good dad. By Mindy Mccready Dad Good

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death. By Jean De La Bruyere Fathers Lives Death Extraordinary Giving

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around. By Arne Duncan Young Lives People Important Dads

My dad was a great dad. By Bijou Phillips Dad Great

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters. By Phyllis Mcginley Sons Walking Reach Waters Strange

Fathers are no longer men, most are only boys who pretend. By Delano Johnson Fathers Men Pretend Longer Boys

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! By Terence Men Harsh Judges Fathers Young

Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars. By Michael Chabon Openended Eternal Fathering Money Body

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves. By Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Christ Enemies Fulfill Injunction

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! By Louis C.k. Fathers Home Skills Run Landscaping

The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood. By David Blankenhorn American Society Increasingly Fatherless Child

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking. By Dan Pearce Greatest Mark Father Treats Children

A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him. By Richelle E. Goodrich Great Father Children

The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for themselves what they hoped a father would do for them. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation") By William S. Wilson Stories Young Men Anthropology Father

A father is someone who can't get on the phone, in the bathroom or out of debt. By John Walter Bratton Phone Debt Father Bathroom

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fathers Provoke Wrath Children

We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives. By Barack Obama Kids Book Wrong Treated Father

The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows. By Richelle E. Goodrich Softest Sweetest Hearts Fathers Words

This father always relates to his children in perfect love. This father is never absent. He is never disinterested. He is never preoccupied. He is never unable to respond to a need. By Henry T. Blackaby Father Love Relates Children Perfect

A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence. By Howard W. Hunter Presence Righteous Father Protects Children

Dads. It's time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It's time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It's time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we'd like. It's time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It's time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It's time to take joy in everything that our kids are. By Dan Pearce Time Joy Kids Dads Constantly

Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest about their goals and most satisfied with their lives and personal and family relationships usually remember that their fathers enjoyed them and were actively interested in their development. By Stella Chess Women Fathers Lives Relationships Childhood

Success has many fathers. By John F. Kennedy Success Fathers

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity. By Jeffrey R. Holland Fatherhood Assignment Eternity Easy Ranks

A father is a person who give you feather to further. By Ernest Eddison Father Person Give Feather

Every father says the same thing: "Where's your mother?" By Bill Cosby Thing Mother Father

Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb to the empty values of a materialistic society. Again, before healing may begin, men must acknowledge the reality of what lies within. Among those confusing emotions is a deep grief for the loss of the personal father as companion, model and support, and a deep hunger for the fathers as a source of wisdom, solace and inspiration. By James Hollis Men Society Today Claim Identity

A family needs a father to anchor it. By L. Tom Perry Family Father Anchor

Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater effect on us than our own fathers. Perhaps an adult that we wanted to become like, or someone with such a strong presence that even now, they remain in our hearts - someone who might be referred to as a "father of choice." By Mamoru Hosoda Digging Past Back Events Found

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do By Frank Pittman Fathering Masculine Thing Man

Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's easy to read with all this light.' Nobody give a fk about dads! By Chris Rock Hey Daddy Knockin Rent Water

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings. By John Locke Chidings Reservedness Distance Fathers Deprive

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. By Lord Chesterfield Sons Care Money Fathers Love

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ... By Fanny Fern Son Father

As for the boys ... vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what. By Martha Stout Boys Parents Fathers Vulnerable Teach

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills. By Oscar Wilde Mothers Chap Pay Bills Bother

A father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn't as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them. By Philip Roth Father Biases Duty Ambitions Men

My father was the quintessential husband and dad. By Sidney Poitier Dad Father Quintessential Husband

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities. By Lynda Lovejoy Fathers Adversities Teach Lessons Children

Our parents are Our Gods. By Avijeet Das Gods Parents

I grew up in a town without fathers. By Stephen Rodrick Fathers Grew Town

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? By Ellen Goodman Closeness Criticize Mothers Fathers Distance

Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems. By Nick Burd Dads Humanity Appendix Problems Start

Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters. By James Anderson Men Suitors Necessity Violent Moments

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families. By Gary Bauer Father Heaven Creation Robbed Children

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. By Ama H. Vanniarachchy Unseen Unexpressed Lives Father Tears

Some fathers give you life. Some show you how to live it. Thank you for showing me how to live mine. By Colleen Hoover Life Fathers Give Live Mine

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection ... By Rose Macaulay Excessive Parents Untamed Potentially Creatures

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. By Emile Gaboriau Rely Father Friend Fails Children

Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers. By Nick Flynn Fathers Leave Left Return Unknown

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers. By Joyce Banda Brothers Father Made Treated Equally

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity! By Jean-Paul Sartre Words Father Rule Good Paternity

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me ... even when I am not in my best mood. By Boman Irani Father Kids Day Love Mood

Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction. By Donald Barthelme True Nottrue Teachers Knowingly Teaches

More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story. By David Blankenhorn Cultures Children Father Broadly Time

While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it. By Bill Cosby Figureheads Fathers Pleasant Special Bond

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity. By Benjamin Watson Home Identity Growing Challenge Present

After my parents divorced, I realized that my father's absence from my life was, sadly, a good thing. There weren't any more violent scenes," I said. "I mean, imagine my life if I'd been raised by my father." "Imagine your life if you'd had a father who loved you as a father should," Vince countered. I tried to imagine such a thing, but my mind could not be forced to do it. I couldn't break it down into a list. I couldn't land on love or security, confidence or a sense of belonging. A father who loved you as a father should was greater than his parts. He was like the whirl of white on the YOU ARE HERE poster behind Vince's head. He was one giant inexplicable thing that contained a million other things, and because I'd never had one, I feared I'd never find myself inside that great white swirl. By Cheryl Strayed Father Life Imagine Sadly Thing

What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you're grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don't, well then, you don't. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is. By Julia Glass Mistakes Damned Waits Return Father

My father did everything for me. He was awesome. By Jenson Button Father Awesome

It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook. By Ellen Goodman Worse Criticized Intensity Fathers Loved

Father: an inspirational person; emulated, admired and much loved; strong character with exceptional patience and unrivalled wisdom; often referred to as a son's first hero and a daughter's first love. By Anonymous Father Emulated Person Admired Loved

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers. By Thomas S. Monson Father Children Unwavering Commitment Lives

Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on to children, often through the dynamic of self-protection. It hurts to be neglected, and it creates questions about our value to others. So to avoid feeling the sting of further rejection, we refuse to give that part of ourselves we fear might once again be received with indifference. By Larry Crabb Children Men Boys Felt Dads

Fathers left distinctive footprints; sons should think of noble footsteps By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Fathers Footprints Sons Footsteps Left

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction. By A. Theodore Tuttle Fatherhood Action Relationship Love Understanding

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men. By Dwyane Wade Men Fathers Children Boys Teach

Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was not the only sufferer. Dad had hurt him, but he had hurt Dad as well, and they were both responsible. Feeling responsible was not as comfortable as feeling outraged. By Ken Follett Fathers Invulnerable Childish Supposed Attitude

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. By August Strindberg Family Thankless Position Father Provider

It's time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It's time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It's time we give our kids a fighting chance. By Dan Pearce Time World Stand Demand Fathers

I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I'm writing a book about a troll under a bridge or a dragon. For me, a father was nothing more than a character in a fairy tale. I know fathers are not like dragons because fathers actually exist. I have seen them on television and sliding their arms around their wives in grocery stores, and I have seen them in the malls and in the coffee shops, but these were characters in other people's stories. The sad thing is, as a kid, I wondered why I couldn't have a dragon, but I never wondered why I didn't have a father. (page 20) By Donald Miller Father Writing Fathers Dragon Bring

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it. By Christine Keeler Fathers Kiss Fondle Hated

Be your own father, young man By Ralph Ellison Father Young Man

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can't find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every single day. Do you not understand that children will hinge their entire facet of trust on whether or not their dad plays with them and how involved he is when he plays with them? Do you know the damage you do by not playing with your children every day? By Dan Pearce Plays Day Children Find Minutes

Every father loves their children. I love my two sons very dearly. The only thing that is important to me is that they do what they want to do. They shouldn't feel a sense of obligation. By Kerry Stokes Children Father Dearly Loves Love

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality. By Yukio Mishima Machine Kids Secretly Reality Father

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids. By Kenyon Martin Kids Father Growing Vowed

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. By Euripides Children Gods Visit Sins Fathers

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads. By Warren Farrell Family Workplace Dads Women Important

So, I may not be an expert on fathers, but I know that anyone who makes you feel less than worthy, especially someone who I believe is supposed to love and protect you, is not worth your effort. By Anna Hackett Fathers Worthy Effort Expert Makes

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. By Jim Demint World Dad Greatest Titles Biggest

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education. By Yoshihiko Noda Interactions Education Fathers Children Starting

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood By Chris Hadfield Fatherhood Boyhood Unending Imperfect Task

And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone;In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own. By Louis Untermeyer Blessing Tone Fathers Give Place

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really. By Ziggy Marley Father Sons

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her. By Jack Kirby Man Father Wanted Shopping Mother

They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first. By Nuala O'faolain Jimmy Fathers Men