105 Best Fatherhood Quotes That Will Make You Smile

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You will find tons of quotes about fatherhood on the internet, but we have compiles our favorites here in one place. We hope you get a laugh and some inspiration from our compilation. Please comment below if you have some good Fatherhood Quotes ones we will add them to the list.

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Funny Fatherhood Quotes – Dad Quotes from Their Children

1 “For Father’s Day I bought something nice with your money.”

2. “Dad, you make socks and sandals look cool.”

3. “Thanks Dad! I turned out awesome.”

4. “Dad, you are my superman, which makes me your super son!”

5. “Dad, you’ve always been the coolest – like all those times you said ‘yes’ when Mom said ‘no.’”

6. “Mama tried to rais a lady but Daddy won. He raised a lady who doesn’t take crap from anyone.”

7. “I game 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

8. “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.” Unknown

9. “Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately he didn’t teach me everything he knows.” –  Al Unser

10. “There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep.’” – Jim Gaffigan

11. “My dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.” – Al Unser

12. “My fingers may be small, but I’ve got my daddy wrapped around them.” Unknown

13. “I smile because you’re my father. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.”

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

Funny Fatherhood Quotes –  Quotes on Being a Dad

15. “Buying your kid a goldfish is a great way to teach them about responsibility for 24 – 36 hours.” – Conan O’Brian

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

17. “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

18. “Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.” – George Lucas

19. “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.” – John Wilmot

Funny Fatherhood Quotes about Having Daughters

20. “…alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter’s skill.” – Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr

21. “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

22. “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

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

24. “A little girl giggles when she is denied an ice-cream by her mother. She knows daddy will get her some later.” – Unknown

25. “There is this girl who stole my heart and she calls me Daddy.”  – Unknown

26. “You cant scare me, I have two daughters.”

27. “Yes, I do have a beautiful daughter. I also have a gun, a shovel, and an alibi.”

Inspirational Fatherhood Quotes – How Kids Feel About Their Dad

28. “My father game me my dreamy. Thanks to him I could see a furture.” – Liza Minnelli

29. “Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.”

30. “Dad: A son’s first Hero; a daughter’s first love.”

31. “A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.”

32. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed me.” – Jim Valvano

33. “My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland

34. “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

35. “A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.” – Ian Morgan Cron

36. “My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland

37. “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 

38. “Some people don’t believe in Heroes, but they haven’t met my dad!”

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

40. “One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten came from God. I call him daddy.”

41. “Daddy, thanks for being my hero, chauffeur, financial support, listener, life mentor, friend, guardian, and simply being there every time I need a hug.” – Agatha Stephanie Lin

42. “Dad. He can play like a kid, give advice like a friend, and protect like a bodyguard.”

43. “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.”

44. “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” – Linda Poindexter

45. “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

46. “Life doesn’t come with an instruction book — that’s why we have fathers.” – H. Jackson Browne

47. “Nothing makes me feel stronger than knowing that I have a dad who’s got my back. I love you.”

48. “You have seen me at my worst, yet you think that I am the best. I love you, Dad.”

Inpsirational Quotes – Fatherhood Quotes about Being a Dad

49. “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

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

51. “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

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

53. “Father!—To God Himself we cannot give a holier name.” – William Wordsworth

54. “Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.” – Frank Pittman

55. “His values embraced family, reveled in the social mingling of the kitchen, and above all, welcomed the loving disorder of children.” – John Cole

56. “Children are a poor man’s riches.” – English proverb

57. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

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

59. “Some day you will know that a father is much happier in his children’s happiness than in his own. I cannot explain it to you: it is a feeling in your body that spreads gladness through you.” Honore de Balzac, – Pere Goriot

60. “A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” – John Andrew Holmes

61. “Every parent is at some point the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.” – John Ciardi

62. “Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.” – Mike Myers

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

64. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert

65. “The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.” – John Green

66. “There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railway man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.” –Theodore Roosevelt

67. ‘Father’ is the noblest title a man can be given. It is more than a biological role. It signifies a patriarch, a leader, an exemplar, a confidant, a teacher, a hero, a friend.” – Robert L. Backman 

68. “Children need models rather than critics.” – Joseph Joubert 

Inspirational Fatherhood Quotes – From Daughters About Their Dad

69. “A daughter may outgrow your lap but she’ll never outgrow your heart.”

70. “When I’m at my best, I am my father’s daughter.”

71. “It’s not that my standards are too high, it’s just that my daddy set an amazing example for how a man should treat me.” Unknown

Inspiring Fatherhood Quotes – From Dads About Having Daughters

72. “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” – Euripides

73. “A girl’s father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.” – David Jeremiah

74. “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

75. “Fathers, you are your daughter’s hero. My father was my hero. I used to wait on the steps of our home for him to arrive each night. He would pick me up and twirl me around and let me put my feet on top of his big shoes, and then he would dance me into the house. I loved the challenge of trying to follow his every footstep. I still do.” – Elaine S. Dalton

76. “Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad.”

77. “A father holds his daughter’s hand for a short while, but he holds her heart forever.”

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

79. “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”

80. “Fathers, be your daughter’s first love and she’ll never settle for anything less.”

81. “In the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown.”

82. “When my daughter says ‘Daddy I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.” – Stanley Behrman

83. “One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say. Those memories will help you through less joyous times when their adoration is replaced by embarrassment or annoyance and they don’t want you to see what they are doing or hear what they are saying. And yet, you will adore your daughter every day of her life, hoping to be valued again, but realizing how fortunate you were even if you only get what you already got.” – Michael Josephson

84. “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

Inspirational Fatherhood Quotes – From Dads About Having Sons

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

86. “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.

87. “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” – Charles Kettering

88. “Why do men like me want sons?’ he wondered. ‘It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.’” – John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History

89. “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

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

91. “Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son.” – Douglas Malloch

92. “When my son looks up at me and breaks into his wonderful toothless smile, my eyes fill up and I know that having him is the best thing I will ever do.” – Dan Greenberg

93. “Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy beyond joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.” – Kent Nerburn

94. “No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what anything means, until he has a child and loves it.” – Lafcadio Hearn

95. “A family needs a father to anchor it.” – L. Tom Perry

96. “Mostly you just have to keep plugging and keep loving—and hoping that your child forgives you according to how you loved him, judged him, forgave him, and stood watching over him as he slept, year after year.” – Ben Stein

97. “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” – Charles Kettering

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

Fatherhood Quotes About Being a Man

99. “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

100. “Being male is a matter of birth, being man is a matter of age, but begin a gentleman is a matter of choice.”

101. “A man can stand a lot if he can stand himself.” – Axel Munthe

102. “Men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” – Pope John XXIII

103. “Real men don’t love the most beautiful girl in the world, they love the girl that can make their world the most beautiful.”

104. “Real men don’t love a million different women, they love one woman a million different ways.”

105. “The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can affort to be.” – Elbert Hubbard

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