“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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“The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad.”
Unknown
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
Frank A. Clark
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“Do not indulge in dreams of what you have not, but count the blessings actually present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Receive without pride, relinquish without struggle.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
