70 Fathers Day Quotes That Will Make Him Feel Loved

70 Fathers Day Quotes That Will Make Him Feel Loved Fathers get a bad rap.   Theyre the tuba of the band, the executioner of punishment, and chronicler of lectures.   So, lets honor our special hero by sharing some of the most AWESOME quotes written about DAD. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. Abraham Lincoln A father is a banker provided by nature. French Proverb Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. Ruth E. Renkel A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be. Unknown My father didnt tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Budington Kelland My father always told me, Find a job you love and youll never have to work a day in your life. Jim Fox One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert 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 truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. Unknown By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks hes wrong. Charles Wadsworth Watch out how you treat your mother; sooner or later youll treat other women that way, too. Learn basic auto repair. Anything you depend on that much youd better know how to fix. Even if you think you know how to put something together, read the instructions first. You can turn a loss into a win by learning something from it. No matter what it costs you to be who you really are, its worth it. Women will never understand the Three Stooges. Think about what youd like to remember when youre old; it may help you decide what to do tomorrow. Nobody ever lay in his deathbed and wished he had worked longer hours. “Success and happiness at work come by embracing and using the strengths that makes one different.” â€"@assetspersonifi   via Twitter Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. Anne Geddes “Always leave work each day having done more than you were paid to do.   â€" @DesertDojo , via Twitter “Always send a hand written thank you note. Maybe the best advice he ever gave.” â€" Michael G., via Facebook “Don’t quit!” â€" Debra M., via Facebook “Never say I don’t know. Say ‘Let me get back to you’ and go look it up.” â€" Carolyn H., via Facebook “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” â€" @L_Gilmour, via Twitter “Do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay, and be proud of whatever you do.” â€" Beverly R., via Facebook “A great career lies at the crossroad of what you love, what you’re good at, and what people are willing to pay you for.” â€" @WhatUrGoodAt, via Twitter “As long as you’re putting food on the table for your family, hold your head high and be proud!” â€" @myJobble, via Twitter “Live your life by your own moral code and never sacrifice that same code in the workplace.” â€" Renee E., via Facebook “Successful people take risks!” â€" @Career411Dan, via Twitter “Quit. They don’t deserve you.” â€" Keri C., via Facebook “Basically it’s ok to start off at the bottom but it’s not ok to stay there. Look at the top, see what they’re doing and do it.” â€"@ApolloGreg, via Twitter “You can’t change the circus, unless you change the clowns.” â€" @mdtnavedu, via Twitter I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. Bill Cosby I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen 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 A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. Marlene Dietrich Keep your eye on the ball Dont just listen to what people say; try to figure out why theyre saying it. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fathers protection. Sigmund Freud “No job is beneath you.” â€" Eric B., via Facebook 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 Stand up straight, shake hands firmly and look people in the eye. My father always used to say that when you die, if youve got five real friends, youve had a great life. Elbert Hubbard 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 pat of butter in a hot frying pan. Garrison Keillor “If you’re on time, you’re late…”â€" Sheina S., via Facebook Your word is your bond. I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln Do things the hard way sometimesits good practice. Dont lose track of your old friends; its important to have people around who know where you came from. Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of whats in him and whats been given him. Laurence Rockefeller The harder you work for something, the more youll appreciate itwhich is why you cant have your allowance until youre done with your chores. Ive 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 The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. Tim Russert To be a successful father . . . theres one absolute rule: when you have a kid, dont look at it for the first two years. Ernest Hemingway All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. Margaret Atwood It doesnt matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Anne Sexton The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad! Anonymous My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, Youre tearing up the grass. Were not raising grass, Dad would reply. Were raising boys. Harmon Killebrew Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby Theres something like a line of gold thread running through a mans 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 You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. Erika Cosby Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. Anonymous 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 A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.~ Carol Coats The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.~ Confucius How true Daddys words were when he said: All children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands.~ Anne Frank The thing to remember about fathers is, theyre men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.~ Phyllis McGinley That is the thankless position of the father in the family the provider for all, and the enemy of all.~ J. August Strindberg A mans 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 Special thanks to all the contributors MoneyWatch Blessings for Life ILoveIndia Chiff Hub Pages illicitmonkey