27 quotes that will make you a better father, husband, and leader today:
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
- Sigmund Freud
- Sigmund Freud
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
- Pope John XXIII
- Pope John XXIII
“One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
- Howard W. Hunter
- Howard W. Hunter
“Children will not remember you for the material things you gave them, but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
- Richard L. Evans
- Richard L. Evans
"If you raise your children, you spoil your grandkids. If you spoil your children, you raise your grandkids."
- Unknown
- Unknown
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”
- Jim Valvano
- Jim Valvano
“Sons are born to make their fathers better men.”
- Mekael Shane
- Mekael Shane
“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
- Plato
“Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.”
- Janvier Chouteu-Chando
- Janvier Chouteu-Chando
“It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.”
- Clayton Lessor
- Clayton Lessor
"Children must never work for our love. They must rest in it."
- Gordon Neufeld
- Gordon Neufeld
"Duty is the essence of manhood."
- George Patton
- George Patton
“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.”
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they’re always watching you.”
- Robert Fulghum
- Robert Fulghum
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh. When a son gives to his father, both cry."
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
- Shinichi Suzuki
- Shinichi Suzuki
“Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn.”
- Matthew McConaughey
- Matthew McConaughey
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
- Michael Ratnadeepak
- Michael Ratnadeepak
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
- Clarence Budington Kelland
- Clarence Budington Kelland
“The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.”
- Dan Pearce
- Dan Pearce
“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero.”
- Fred Rogers
- Fred Rogers
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
- Ruth E. Renkel
- Ruth E. Renkel
"Parenthood is about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last."
- Peter Krause
- Peter Krause
"We don't have to be perfect in our parenting. Just purposeful."
- Holli Kenley
- Holli Kenley
"An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom."
- C.S. Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
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