Dear Readers: Wishing you all a Happy Father’s Day! Here are some uplifting quotes that I hope you enjoy!

• “When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” — The Talmud
• “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.” — Tim Russert
• “The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They’re not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion — to care about people and about your children.” — Denzel Washington
• “I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was 12 or 13. He said, ‘You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.’ And I said, ‘But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but I know it’s there.’” — Toni Morrison
• “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
• “Fatherhood is the greatest thing that could ever happen. You can’t explain it until it happens — it’s like telling someone what water feels like before they’ve ever swam in it.” — Michael Buble
• “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
• “An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom.” — C.S. Lewis
• “Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers and singers of song.” — Unknown
• “No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” — William Shakespeare
• “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass
• “Good fathers do three things: they provide, they nurture, and they guide.” — Roland Warren
• “Lookin’ back all I can say about all the things he did for me, is I hope I’m at least half the dad that he didn’t have to be.” — Brad Paisley
• “He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector.” — Tom Wolfe
• “What makes you a man isn’t the ability to have a child; it’s the courage to raise one.” — Barack Obama
• “My dad is my idol. He used to work two jobs and still came home happy every night.” — Magic Johnson

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