Fatherly Commitment Quotes

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

Becoming a father is the natural progression and the next stage after marriage. So the thought of becoming a father is itself an incredible feeling!

The fatherhood thing is easy - when you're there.

I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.

if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.

I just wanted my dad to be a part of my life, wanted him to continue to be there.