30 famous quotes about fathers

As Father’s Day approaches and I think more and more about my father, who loves to read heartfelt quotes, I thought I would find him some slightly funny quotes from famous people who were born at least a hundred years ago.I wonder how they thought about their fathers?Do these thoughts ring true for people today?Does the magic of fatherhood never change?

1. Frederick Douglass – „Without a father, there is no stable nation. Without a father, there is no true future.”

2. Booker T. Washington – „A father’s example is worth more than a hundred lectures.”

3. Abraham Lincoln – „All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my father.”

4. Mark Twain – „My father didn’t teach me everything, but he taught me how to learn.”

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson – „A father does not give wisdom, but the opportunity for it.”

6. W.E.B. Du Bois – „A real father is not just blood, but commitment.”

7. Thomas Edison – „My father believed in me when no one else did.”

8. Theodore Roosevelt – „A father is not a hero, but the one who raises heroes.”

9. Benjamin Franklin – „A good father leaves not an inheritance, but an eternal example.”

10. Harriet Tubman – „My father taught me to be brave, even when the world is against me.”

11. Henry Ford – „A father is not just the provider of the family, but the builder of character.”

12. Sojourner Truth – „A true father is known not by his power, but by his love.”

13. John D. Rockefeller – „My father taught me to work hard and live humbly.”

14. Ulysses S. Grant – „Without a father, there is no direction, only wandering.”

15. Susan B. Anthony – „The father who respects his daughter builds a nation.”

16. Alexander Graham Bell – „A father is a child’s first teacher, and the most important one.”

17. George Washington Carver – „My father said: *Don’t ask what is given to you, but what you can do for others.”

18. Walt Whitman – „A father’s love speaks quietly but echoes forever.”  

19. Edgar Allan Poe – „The shadow of a lost father follows eternally.”

20. Woodrow Wilson – „The strength of a family is determined by the character of the father.”

21. Thomas Jefferson -“A father’s first duty is to raise his child as a moral being—knowledge comes only after.”

22. John Adams -„Nothing makes a father happier than seeing his child grow more virtuous than himself.”

23. Harriet Beecher Stowe -„A true father is not the head of the family, but its heart.”

24. Nat Turner – “My father taught me: *Freedom is not given—it must be taken.”

25. Henry David Thoreau -“My father left me no wealth, but he taught me to live simply and freely.”

26. Clara Barton – “My father said: *He who can help and does not is guilty.”

27. Sitting Bull – “A tribe is held together not by warriors, but by fathers.” 

28. Elizabeth Cady Stanton – “A father who respects his daughter builds a fairer world.”

29. Chief Joseph -“Your child does not belong to you—you are only their guardian. Teach them wisdom, then let them walk their own path.”

30. Louisa May Alcott -„My father was not rich, but he always enriched our lives with love.”