Fatherhood Parenting Quotes

#1. Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills

Fela Durotoye

#2. No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

J. Richard Singleton

#3. A father is as much a verb as a mother.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#4. Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.

Fela Durotoye

#5. A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Raheel Farooq

#6. A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Stephen Colbert

#7. Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?

Emily Matchar

#8. My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Bill Cosby

#9. The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

Pratik Patil

#10. As a father, we need to actively listen.

Asa Don Brown

#11. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?

J.R. Tompkins

#12. With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. The health of your future kids does not start with their birth - it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

Pratik Patil

#14. It is indeed great news that, despite the challenges, in some ways it is more
possible than ever before to have a great career and be a great dad.

Scott Behson

#15. I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot

#17. Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in

Fela Durotoye

#18. Let me share my loving care upon those who are not my children - yet, willing to see me as their Father.

Eleesha

#19. 80There is no greater influence in the lives of your children than the words you speak over them. The blessing of the father is incredibly potent and powerful. Your words give your children potential. As their father, you are prophesying their future!

Neil Kennedy

#20. Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.

Fela Durotoye

#21. Saturday mornings, I've learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

Dan Pearce

#22. Never discipline whom you've not discipled.

Neil Kennedy

#23. The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.

Neil Kennedy

#24. When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn't know whether to celebrate with champagne ... or hemlock.

Len Filppu

#25. The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.

Ben Marcus

#26. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

Fela Durotoye

#29. To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself ... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.

Mona Simpson

#31. A father is a man who fails every day.

Michael Chabon

#32. The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

P.A. Speers

#34. Fatherhood is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled

Brene Brown

#36. May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment - in the answers they seek.

Eleesha

#37. I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.

Joe McNally

#38. Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#39. Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.

James Anderson

#40. Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

Randy Alcorn

#41. The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.

Ricky Shetty

#42. In expression of Fatherhood I evolve to become - all I was destined, to be.

Eleesha

#43. For every guy who loves being a dad, there's another who realizes too late that he's created something his wife loves more than him.

Mark R. Brand