✦ WORDS TO CARRY WITH YOU

Encouragement
for the dad life.

A collection of thoughtful words about fatherhood, showing up, and the example we leave behind.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— William Shakespeare

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

— George Herbert

To her the name of father was another name for love.

— Fanny Fern

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

— Tim Russert

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word—father.

— Lydia Maria Child

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

— James Baldwin

Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

— Fred Rogers

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly.

— Theodore Roosevelt

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

— Anne Frank