| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Jim Valvano | My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.  | 101 |
| Frank Abagnale | A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. | 101 |
| Harlan Coben | This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too. | 101 |
| Kent Nerburn | Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. | 101 |
| Liam Neeson | It's an ongoing joy being a dad. | 101 |
| Max Lucado | I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. | 101 |
| Naveen Jain | Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person. | 101 |
| Bubba Watson | My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven. | 101 |
| Nick Lachey | To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. | 101 |
| Seann William Scott | My role model is my dad. | 101 |
| Dante Hall | I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. | 101 |
| Jim DeMint | One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. | 101 |
| David Lauren | My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine. | 101 |
| Kojo Annan | I admire my father greatly. | 101 |
| Austin Peck | The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy. | 101 |
| Matthew Modine | We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. | 101 |
| Al Unser | Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. | 101 |
| Gordon Brown | I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. | 102 |
| Liza Minnelli | I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. | 102 |
| Wendell Phillips | To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. | 102 |
| Dennis Banks | I have a Father's Day every day. | 102 |
| Wade Boggs | Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. | 102 |
| Lara St. John | Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him. | 102 |
| Steve Zahn | I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids. | 102 |
| Euripides | To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. | 103 |
| Anne Sexton | It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. | 103 |
| Jennifer Grant | When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit. | 103 |
| Cher Lloyd | My dad's my best mate, and he always will be. | 103 |
| Michael Gurian | Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.' | 103 |
| Lee Iacocca | My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. | 104 |
| Sidney Poitier | I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. | 104 |
| Gloria Naylor | Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. | 104 |
| Mike Myers | I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do. | 104 |
| George Best | The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir. | 105 |
| William Graham Sumner | A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. | 105 |
| Christopher Meloni | I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding. | 105 |
| Ben Okri | One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. | 106 |
| Rod Stewart | I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband. | 106 |
| Maria Sharapova | Without my dad, I wouldn't be here. | 106 |
| William Shakespeare | When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. | 108 |
| Michael Jordan | My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.' | 108 |
| David Beckham | I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father. | 108 |
| George Herbert | One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. | 108 |
| Sammy Davis, Jr. | I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. | 108 |
| Amber Heard | I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl. | 108 |
| John Wooden | The most important thing in the world is family and love. | 109 |
| Margaret Heffernan | In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. | 109 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | My Dad is my hero. | 110 |
| Wynton Marsalis | We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us. | 110 |
| Yehuda Berg | I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God. | 110 |
| Bo Jackson | I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. | 111 |
| Hedy Lamarr | I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much. | 111 |
| Tiger Woods | My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend. | 111 |
| Adam Sandler | I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. | 112 |
| Conrad Hall | Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. | 112 |
| Dwyane Wade | Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice. | 112 |
| T. D. Jakes | I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers. | 115 |
| Mark Wahlberg | I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing. | 116 |
| Robert Frost | You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. | 118 |
| Paul Walker | I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.' | 123 |
| Floyd Mayweather, Jr. | I'm always going to love my father. | 125 |
| Kid Rock | Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen. | 204 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. | 221 |
| William Shakespeare | It is a wise father that knows his own child. | 308 |
| Victor Hugo | Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. | 412 |
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