50+ Father’s Day Quotes For Every Dad

Father's Day is a holiday and more. It's a celebration of those men who've been there for us, held us up, and shaped our lives with wisdom, love, and unwavering strength.

While many will celebrate their dads on this day, numerous other father figures ought to be celebrated as well, stepdads, grandpas, husbands, uncles, and even brothers who've become "dad" in their own way.

If you want to find just the right words to insert into a Father's Day card, a gift tag, a Facebook post, Instagram captions or an emotional text message, we've collected over 50+ Father's Day quotes that speak to every kind of father figure. Whether you're seeking something brief and simple, funny and light, or seriously sentimental, there's a quote here for you.

Let us dive into conveying your love and appreciation to the fathers in your life.

Short Father’s Day Quotes

1. "A girl’s first true love is her father." - Marisol Santiago
2. "DAD: Tiny little word. Great big difference." - Keely Chace
3. "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." - George Herbert
4. "The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get." - Tim Russert
5. "It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare
6. "The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched." - Justin Ricklefs
7. "When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back." - Linda Poindexter
8. "A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day." - Susan Gale
9. "A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you." - Dimitri the Stoneheart
10. "My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future." - Liza Minnelli
    

Funny Father's Day Quotes

11. "A father is a banker provided by nature." - French proverb
12. "A father carries pictures where his money used to be." - Steve Martin
13. "My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic." - Spike Milligan
14. "Being a dad is 30% patience, 20% heart, and 50% making stuff up." - Bill Gray
15. "Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch." - Jon Stewart
16. "A father’s words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house." - Paul Lewis
17. "I’ve been to war. I’ve raised twins. If I had a choice, I’d rather go to war." - George W. Bush
18. "Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows." - Al Unser
19. "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. "When you’re young, you think your dad is Superman. Then you grow up, and you realize he’s just a regular guy who wears a cape." - Dave Attell

Heartwarming Father’s Day Quotes

21. "The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature." - Antoine François Prévost
22. "No one in this world can love a girl more than her father." - Michael Ratnadeepak
23. "They go beyond. They go above. Fathers have mastered how to love." - Keion Jackson
24. "It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." - Anne Sexton
25. "No man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much." - Hedy Lamarr
26. "My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads were supposed to do—be there." - Max Lucado
27. "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection." - Sigmund Freud
28. "What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity." - Jean Paul
29. "[My father] has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch." - Chelsea Clinton
30. "Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes." - Markus Zusak

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Inspirational Quotes for Husband

31. "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn." - Emily Dickinson
32. "A great father makes his family feel so blessed." - Diana Manning
33. "Great fathers don’t find fault. Great fathers find solutions." - Reed Markham
34. "No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child." - Abraham Lincoln
35. "A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child." - Knights of Pythagoras
36. "The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh
37. "Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father." - Frank Abagnale
38. "A dad prays for strength to protect his family, wisdom to guide them, and humility to learn as he goes." - Megan Haave
39. "The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide." - Mike Sager
40. "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

Sweet Father’s Day Quotes for Grandpa

41. "The only thing better than having you for a dad is my children having you for a grandpa." - Linda Poindexter
42. "One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather." - Joy Hargrove
43. "To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms, but absolutely terrified of the word boo." - Robert Brault
44. "You know you’re a grandfather when you hop on a rollercoaster and realize your adventurous spirit is willing but your back is not." - Robert Brault

Loving Father’s Day Quotes for Uncle

45. "Everyone has an uncle who tries to steal their nose" - Peter Clay
46. "My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him." - Rey Mysterio

47. "I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes; and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's." — William Shakespeare
48. "I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person." - Catherine Bell
49. "You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes, but sometimes I feel like a teammate." - Dusty Baker
50. "An uncle is a blessing. It means so many things. Words could never tell the joy an uncle brings. An uncle is a bond of faith that even time can’t sever, a gift to last all of our lives. An uncle is forever." - Irene Banks

Happy Father’s Day Quotes for Brother

51. "Fatherhood is a marathon, not a sprint." - Paul Lewis
52. "Children learn to smile from their parents." - Shinichi Suzuki
53. "It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father." - Barack Obama
54. "The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child." - Roy Lessin
55. "Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life." - Hugh Jackman
56. "Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you’re twelve, but every day." - Mike Meyers
57. "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
58. "Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars." - Victor Hugo
59. "It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping." - John Sinor
60. "If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons." - James Baldwin

Final Thoughts

No matter what role they’ve played in your life, every father figure deserves recognition and love on Father’s Day. Whether you're honoring a dad, stepdad, grandpa, husband, uncle, brother, or a brand-new father, these quotes are here to help you put your feelings into words.

Words may seem small, but when they come from the heart, they last forever.