Best Step Dad Quotes 2021

“When someone takes you on as their own when you’re not biologically their own, I think is really special….[My stepdad] didn’t have to raise me. He wanted to.”

“My stepdad is probably the greatest man I’ve ever known. The best advice I’ve ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life, because one day I’m not going to be as agile as I am now.”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.”

“You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but…you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”

“If you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it’s very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.”

“I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.”

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”

“My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.”

“Becoming a father is a challenge to any man’s psyche and there is a fundamental reorganization that you cannot avoid when you begin this journey.”

“A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again.”

“Step-parenting is like working at a late-night convenience store…all of the responsibility and none of the authority.”

“A child cannot have too many people who love them and want to help them succeed.”

“A stepparent is so much more than just a parent: They made the choice to love when they didn’t have to.”

“My mom is my heart. But my stepdad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.”

“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.”

“The only steps in this house are the stair steps and the only half in this house is the half & half creamer.”

“No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.”

“A stepfather means so many things… an understanding heart, a source of strength, and of support, right from the very start.”

“A good stepparent can literally turn the life of a child around.”

“It takes a strong man to accept somebody else’s children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.”

“He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector.”

“The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched.”

“It’s only when you grow up and step back from him—or leave him for your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.”

“It’s not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son.”

“He never treated me like I was a package deal. I wasn’t a burden in his eyes, I was a bonus.”

“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a stepdad.”

“Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.”

“Stepparents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a child’s life experience.”

“Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child.”

“My stepdad may not have given me life, but he sure has made my life better.”

“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”

“It’s not flesh and blood, but the heart that makes us father and son.”

“Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”

“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.”

“We aren’t ‘step,’ we aren’t ‘half,’ we’re just family.”

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”

“Family not by birth but by good fortune, I’m so lucky to have you in my life.”

“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.”

“A stepparent is so much more than just a parent; they made the choice to love when they didn’t have to.”

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

“Fatherhood requires love, not DNA.”