64 Inspirational Quotes on Father's Day to Honor the Best Dads

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

- Jim Valvano

"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

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

- Linda Poindexter

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

- Liza Minnelli

"There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years, it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself."

- John Gregory Brown

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

- Anne Geddes

"Dads teach us lots of things, but the real lesson is always love."

- Keely Chace

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

- Susan Gale

"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

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

- Steve Martin

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

- Dan Pearce

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

- John Mayer

"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

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

- Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

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

- Antoine Francois Prevost

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

- Billy Graham

"It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."

- Barack Obama

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

- Roy Lessin

"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

"Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration."

- Naveen Jain

"A great dad shows up, cheers loud, and loves—always."

- Hallmark writer

"Being a dad isn't easy…but when somebody does it right, it reminds the rest of us what a world-changing difference a good dad can make."

- Andrew Blackburn

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

- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"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

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

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Chelsea Clinton

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

- Jean Paul

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

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Lydia M. Child

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."

- The Talmud

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

- Ruth E. Renkel

"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

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

- Johann Schiller

"Father!—to God himself we cannot give a holier name!"

- William Wordsworth

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

- George Herbert

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

- Tim Russert

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

- Anne Sexton

"Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow."

- Reed Markham

"One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather."

- Joy Hargrove

"Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective."

- Brad Pitt

"The nature of fatherhood is that you're doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified when you do it."

- John Green

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

- Reed Markham

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

- William Shakespeare

"Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows."

- Al Unser

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

- Charles Wadsworth

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you."

- Desmond Tutu

"A father is a banker provided by nature."

- French Proverb

"You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out."

- Jerry Seinfeld