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title: "10 Hard Father Quotes by 9 authors"
description: "Browse 10 Hard Father quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Hard Father sayings and thoughts."
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> [Being a boyfriend is easy.. Being a husband is hard and being a father is devoted... And satisfying her…… Right...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/romel-elien/being-a-boyfriend-is-easy-being-a-husband-is-hard-and-being-a-father/)

[Romel Elien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/romel-elien/)

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> [It's hard for me to be a father and the fighter that I am in the same day. I have to separate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-browne/it-s-hard-for-me-to-be-a-father-and-the-fighter-that-i-am-in-the-same/)

[Travis Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-browne/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/travis-browne-4733_day_it-s-hard-for-me-to-be-a-father-and-the_672564.jpg)

> [Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-elder/nobody-ever-worked-as-hard-as-my-father-my-father-averaged-maybe-four-2/)

[Larry Elder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-elder/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d00/larry-elder-16548_father_nobody-ever-worked-as-hard-as-my-father_2209658.png)

> [It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-maravich/it-s-hard-when-your-father-s-the-coach-sometimes-you-don-t-know-where/)

[Pete Maravich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-maravich/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18f/pete-maravich-33054_basketball_it-s-hard-when-your-father-s-the-coach-s_3157944.jpg)

> [My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-may/my-children-hate-me-being-such-a-big-star-it-s-very-hard-for-them-to/)

[Brian May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-may/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f2/brian-may-8348_bigs_my-children-hate-me-being-such-a-big-sta_1317564.jpg)

> [I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-gubay/i-had-a-very-hard-father-i-had-two-sisters-he-was-soft-on-them-and/)

[Albert Gubay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-gubay/)

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> [My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeev-milkha-singh/my-parents-have-always-told-me-to-work-hard-my-father-was-a-friend-a/)

[Jeev Milkha Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeev-milkha-singh/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/jeev-milkha-singh-35365_always_my-parents-have-always-told-me-to-work-h_857470.jpg)

> [It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-franti/it-was-hard-for-me-as-a-father-to-imagine-going-through-what-my-birth/)

[Michael Franti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-franti/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/michael-franti-2651_birth_it-was-hard-for-me-as-a-father-to-imagin_1808973.png)

> [Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-elder/nobody-ever-worked-as-hard-as-my-father-my-father-averaged-maybe-four/)

[Larry Elder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-elder/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/larry-elder-16548_ever_nobody-ever-worked-as-hard-as-my-father_2190849.png)

> [We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gina-rinehart/we-all-know-far-too-many-stories-where-the-third-generation-just/)

[Gina Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gina-rinehart/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/gina-rinehart-18547_away_we-all-know-far-too-many-stories-where-t_2611435.png)

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