Fatherly Wisdom Quotes

When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.

My father told and taught me that the word, can hit harder than the fist.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

Nat King Cole's lyrics were speaking to me, almost like fatherly advice, when I was listening to him alongside the console stereo player. So that music and that influence comes out of me.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do."

Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

My father used to give me a lot of advice.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

My father told me, never have partners.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!