A father and son relationship is one of the most special relationships in this world. Although daughters are loved as much as the sons, fathers tend to be more connected or bonded to the latter. Perhaps it’s because they’re both boys and usually share the same interest in things and activities related to being a man. The role of fatherhood can be a difficult responsibility when it comes to making a positive influence on their son’s lives. The goal is to raise a boy who will grow as a true man of integrity and teach real knowledge and wisdom about the world. To build a framework of providing, nurturing and guiding their son are also included in these goals.
An article written by Roland C. Warren talks about how important it is for a father to evaluate themselves and insure if he is giving his son the fundamental needs. Constant affirmations such as letting the son know he is loved, that he matters, he is important, and how proud he is about his son. Regardless of how big or small these affirmations are, it is always best to have a good communication with the emphasis of making the son feel that his father is his advocate, and his love for him is abiding and conditional.
If you are a father or a son, surely you will love these father and son quotes we prepared for you. May your relationship towards each other remains strong as the years go by!
Father and Son Quotes
1. I love to make soups. My father used to say, ‘There’s nothing like a nice bowl of soup.’ One of my favorites is ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I’ve used escarole. Escarole and beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That’s one of my good ones. – Tony Danza
2. My father never was and isn’t a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that’s a great example for a man, a strong man, a man’s man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody. – Maria Shriver
3. My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man’s house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission. – Thurgood Marshall
4. My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. – Roger Moore
5. My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn’t – he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early ’70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls. – Sandra Cisneros
6. I wasn’t close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time – good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together. – Judy Garland
7. I have no ambitions at all! I have none… seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don’t have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting. – Pilou Asbaek
8. My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best. – Scott Eastwood
9. My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. – Beau Bridges
10. A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. – Frank A. Clark
11. When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – William Shakespeare
12. 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. – Wade Boggs
13. I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle. – Jonathan Tisch
14. The most important influence in my childhood was my father. – DeForest Kelley
15. I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me. – Calvin Johnson
16. Everyone talks about how we’re on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I’m away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger – that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father! – Domhnall Gleeson
17. 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. – David Lauren
18. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. – Sigmund Freud
19. Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person – a door which you may not even have known was there. That’s what I feel with my son. There’s suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life. – Kyle MacLachlan
20. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. – George Herbert
21. It is a wise father that knows his own child. – William Shakespeare
22. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. – Alexander the Great
23. It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. – Dawn French
24. My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic. – Ivanka Trump
25. 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. – Naveen Jain
26. 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.’ – Michael Jordan
27. Happiness does not come from football awards. It’s terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don’t dream football, I dream the American dream – two cars in a garage, be a happy father. – Barry Sanders
28. In my career, there are many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It’s about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible. – David Beckham
29. I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather. – Hillary Clinton
30. My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. – Spike Milligan
31. I just wish I could understand my father. – Michael Jackson
32. When one has not had a good father, one must create one. – Friedrich Nietzsche
33. I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won’t even start eating until he’s sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose. – Ben Roethlisberger
34. A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call ‘Daddy.’ – Frank Abagnale
35. I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.’ – Pele
36. My father used to say, ‘I want you to be a good man; I want you to learn how to work. And I want you to be a serious person.’ I grew up with that in my mind. – Roberto Clemente
37. As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is, well, healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem. – Naveen Jain
38. I am blessed to be a proud father of a daughter. – Adnan Sami
39. I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, ‘Wow, that’s a really wonderful man.’ – Emmanuelle Chriqui
40. My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings. – Jay London
41. It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. – Anne Sexton
42. What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father’s brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes. – Donald Trump
43. My father was a man who didn’t consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own. – Phil Jackson
44. I will follow in my father’s footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader. – Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
45. My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.’ – Cary Grant
46. 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. – Hedy Lamarr
47. 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. – Bo Jackson
48. My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father’s shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
49. I come from a strong woman who believed – and my father believed – that anything a man could do, a woman could do better. – Kimberly Guilfoyle
50. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – Harper Lee
51. I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. – Mike Tyson
52. My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He’d say, ‘This is your sister; you must take care of her.’ – Sandra Cisneros
53. My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. – Ernest Istook
54. I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back. – Steven Spielberg
55. Every son’s first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined. – Tiger Shroff
56. To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. – Nick Lachey
57. A lot of people say, ‘Wow, you’re a single father of twin boys, that’s crazy!’ Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, ‘Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,’ it can’t get better. – Ricky Martin
58. My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, ‘Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters – it breaks.’ And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain – to be sensitive to the direction of life. – Christian Louboutin
59. In my twenties, I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it’s more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it’s more about would he make a good father. And even if you’re just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can’t help but think in those terms. – Rashida Jones
60. My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence Budington Kelland
61. You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family, it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a very brutal disciplinarian. – Lynn Johnston
62. It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up. – Zinedine Zidane
63. Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well. – Margaret D. Nadauld
64. My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him. – Azzedine Alaia
65. My father is my best friend. He’s my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together. – Eric Trump
66. It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. – Pope John XXIII
67. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. – George Lucas
68. There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. – Samuel Johnson
69. It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. – Friedrich Schiller
70. No love is greater than that of a father for His son. – Dan Brown
71. It’s a father’s duty to give his sons a fine chance. – George Eliot
72. For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. – Alan Valentine
73. Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. – Salman Rushdie
74. With sons and fathers, there’s an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. – Brad Pitt
75. By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. – Charles Wadsworth
76. A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. – Helen Rowland
77. No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. – Croesus of Lydia
78. Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds. – Terri Guillemets
79. The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. – Confucius
80. Good fathers make good sons.
81. When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. – The Talmud
82. Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. – Charles F Kettering
83. Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. – Alan Ladd
84. A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. – Frank A. Clark
85. I called up and said, ‘Dad, I won a MacArthur.’ My father goes: ‘I always thought your sister would win that,’ and I said, ‘Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.’ At that point, he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud. – Bonnie Bassler
86. I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo! – Ric Flair
87. I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he’s quite handsome, except a bit fat. – Gina Rinehart
88. I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work. – Ice Cube
89. In my life, I’m just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I’m not a heartbreaker. – Johnathon Schaech
90. My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more. – Cristiano Ronaldo
91. My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn’t be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn’t go through life expecting it, which is very good advice. – Iris Apfel
92. I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. – Miguel Indurain
93. I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve. – Tom Cruise
94. There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy? – Will Smith
95. 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. – Kent Nerburn
96. My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers’ education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all. – Emmeline Pankhurst
97. I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. Eminem
98. My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the soldiers as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I’m not sure it’s true. – Tobias Lindholm
99. My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He’s from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, ‘You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You’ve been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?’ – Tom Hiddleston
100. My father didn’t know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master. – Malcolm X
101. 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. William – Graham Sumner
102. My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it. – Justin Trudeau
103. I remember when I was very young, I had a fever – a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father’s books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allan Poe that made a forever impression on me. – Dario Argento
