Inspiring Father's Day Quotes: A Heartfelt Collection

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

- William Shakespeare

"His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father."

- Will Rogers Jr.

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

- Sigmund Freud

"Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world."

- John Mayer

"The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking."

- Dan Pearce

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

- Knights of Pythagoras

"My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future."

- Liza Minnelli

"Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so."

- Pam Brown

"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity."

- Jean Paul

"My father has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch."

- Chelsea Clinton

"My father is my rock. It’s where I learned everything about loyalty, dependability, being there day in, day out, no matter what."

- Hugh Jackman

"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."

- Margaret Truman

"The thrill of being a great father is not seeing your children go on to become successful adults. The thrill of a great father is the journey, experiencing your child’s successes along the pathway to their greatness."

- Reed Markham

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."

- Umberto Eco

"A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches, and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own."

- Lisa Rogers

"The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child."

- Roy Lessin

"When you need real understanding, When you need someone to care, When you need someone to guide you — A father’s always there."

- Thomas J. Langley

"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story tellers, singers of songs."

- Pam Brown

"A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us."

- éMile Gaboriau

"Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father."

- Frank Abagnale

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."

- Johann Schiller

"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."

- Barack Obama

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

- Sigmund Freud

"The greatest thing a father can do to his children, is to love their mother."

- Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

- Sidney Poitier

"I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it."

- Sammy Davis Jr.

"Noble fathers have noble children."

- Euripides

"Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."

- Anne Geddes

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

- Anne Sexton

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"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 he had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."

- Frank A. Clark

"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

"Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy."

- Philip Whitmore

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"

- Lydia M. Child

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."

- Ruth E. Renkel

"It's not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son."

- Johann Schiller

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

- Gerardo Campbell

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

- Ashley Stock

"The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work."

- Steve Young

"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back."

- Imelda Marcos

"My father taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word."

- Michelle Obama

"You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular."

- Robert Frost

"My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."

- Antoine Francois Prevost

"There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."

- George R.R. Martin

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

- Jim Valvano

"To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy."

- Nelson Mandela

"In times of trouble you can count on yourself. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father."

- William C. Richardson

"Everyone can be a father, but it takes a lot to be a dad."

- Wade Boggs

"I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 13 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."

- Barack Obama

"Father’s Day is for all men who love with a father’s heart."

- Linda Barnes

"Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds."

- Terri Guillemets

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me."

- Jim Valvano

"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."

- Anne Geddes

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

- Billy Graham

"There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry."

- Joni Eareckson Tada

"No man stands so tall than when he stoops to help a child."

- James Dobson

"The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."

- Frank Pittman

"Never is a man more of a man than when he is the father of a newborn."

- Matthew McConaughey

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

- Euripides

"When you need real understanding, when you need someone to care, when you need someone to guide you … A father’s always there."

- Thomas J. Langley

"A man who helps others hold on, hold together, hold strong also holds the trust and respect of those he loves."

- Melvina Young

"I remember Daddy’s hands, how they held my momma tight and patted my back for something done right. There are things that I’ve forgotten that I loved about the man, but I’ll always remember the love in Daddy’s hands."

- Holly Dunn

"There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father."

- Alison Lohman

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

- Justin Ricklefs

"A girl’s first true love is her father."

- Marisol Santiago

"A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you."

- Dimitri the Stoneheart

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

- Fanny Fern

"When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back."

- Linda Poindexter

"No one in this world can love a girl more than her father."

- Michael Ratnadeepak

"No man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much."

- Hedy Lamarr

"My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do—be there."

- Max Lucado

"It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

- Anne Sexton

"Fathers just have a way of putting everything together."

- Erika Cosby

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

- Lydia Maria Child

"A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day."

- Susan Gale

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

- George Herbert

"A father’s faith is his family’s guiding light."

- Jeannie Hund

"Great fathers don’t find fault. Great fathers find solutions."

- Reed Markham

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

"An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom."

- C.S. Lewis

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

- William Shakespeare

"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."

- Steve Martin

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

- Tim Russert

"A father’s words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house."

- Paul Lewis

"A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be."

- Steve Martin

"The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family."

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

"A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart."

"The best dads get promoted to grandpa."

"Dad: A son’s first hero, a daughter’s first love."

"A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow."

- Unknown

"Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing father."

- Unknown

"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers and singers of song."

- Unknown

"A dad is someone who wants to catch you when you fall. Instead he picks you up, brushes you off and lets you try again."

- Unknown

"Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever."

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way."

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."

- Unknown

"Father: a son’s first hero, and a daughter’s first love."

"A Dad is someone who wants to catch you when you fall. Instead, he picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again."