By Strength for Caring

For Father’s Day, we’ve compiled some of our favorite quotes. Add your own quote at the bottom of this article about what you’ve learned from your father, the fathers in your life, or what you’ve learned as a father!

“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." Mark Twain

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!”

Lydia M. Child

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

“Noble fathers have noble children.” Euripides

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

"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father." Jean de La Fontaine

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." Harry S. Truman

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." Abraham Lincoln

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." Gabriel García Márquez

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