Quotes About
Fathers

"Kids spell love T-I-M-E." (John Crudele)

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." (Charles Wadsworth)

"A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother." (Solomon - Proverbs 10:1 NKJV)

"One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." (Unknown)

"A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame." (Solomon - Proverbs 13:5 NKJV)

"The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him." (Solomon - Proverbs 20:7 NKJV)

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you." (Exodus 20:12)

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." (Mark Twain)

"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. " (Haim Ginott)

"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
(Robert A. Heinlein)

"It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality." (Larry Christenson)

"Becoming a man means integrity...staying true to God's Word...being responsible to others, regardless of their social position in life...loving the unlovable...humbling oneself." (Bob Welch)

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." (Beecher)

"An effective father devotes himself to become an instrument and model of human experience to his children...accepts and affirms his children for who they are, appreciates them for what they are accomplishing, and covers them with affection because they are his." (Gordon MacDonald)

"The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving." (Sheldon Glueck)

"You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father not a formula. He wants real parents, real people capable
of making mistakes without moping about it." (C. D. Williams)

"To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today." (Barbara Johnson)

"Manhood has less to do with age than with enlightenment...With commitment...With repentance...It's found in the hearts of men, in a form of such attributes as courage, humility, and vulnerability." (Bob Welch)

"Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old." (Solomon - Proverbs 23:22 NKJV)

"Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice, but a companion of harlots wastes his wealth." (Proverbs 29:3 NKJV)

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
(Clarence Budington Kelland)

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." (Unknown)

"Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery." (Vance Havner)

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." (The Talmud)

"The Hebrew word for parents is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most
important teacher that the child will ever have." (Rabbi Kassel Abelson)

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to be appreciative.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal.
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world." (Dorothy Nolte)

"Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word
what you shouldn't have said." (Mae Maloo)

Quotes from www.eastwallingfordbaptist.com website.