Father’s Day is coming up soon (or it may even be today, depending on when you read this).
It’s a time to pause life for a bit and let the dads and father figures in our lives know just how much they mean to us.
And to help you to show you love and appreciation I’d like to share 110 of the best, funniest and most inspirational Father’s Day quotes and wishes.
Use one or a few of your favorites in a card, on social media like Instagram or in real life to express how you truly feel and to make this a memorable day for the dads in your life.
The Best Happy Father’s Day Quotes to Show Your Love
“If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.”
– Emile Gaboriau
“There is no teacher equal to mother and there’s nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”
– Amit Ray
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
– George Herbert
“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
– Antoine François Prévost
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.”
– Pam Brown
“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
– Anne Geddes
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano
“It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
– Friedrich Schiller
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
– Lydia Maria Child
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
– William Shakespeare
“Of all the titles I’ve been privileged to have, ‘Dad’ has always been the best.”
– Ken Norton
“The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They’re not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion – to care about people and about your children.”
– Denzel Washington
“I realized being a father is the greatest job I have ever had and the greatest job I will ever have.”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
– Ama H. Vanniarachchy
“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
“Success, and even life itself, wouldn’t be worth anything if I didn’t have my children by my side. They mean everything to me.”
– Jude Law
“It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.”
– Liam Neeson
“It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
– Barack Obama
“I’ve jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.”
– Chris Pratt
“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
– Euripides
“A girl’s father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.”
– David Jeremiah
“The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.”
– John Green
“Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.”
– Frank Abagnale
“No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word – father.”
– Lydia Maria Child
“I love my father as the stars – he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.”
– Terri Guillemets
The Best Happy Father’s Day Quotes from a Daughter or Wife
“It was my father who taught me to value myself.”
– Dawn French
“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.”
– Harper Lee
“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
– Gloria Naylor
“A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”
– Gregory E. Lang
“Being a daddy’s girl is like having permanent armor for the rest of your life.”
– Marinela Reka
“I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.”
– Hedy Lamarr
“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
– Fanny Fern
“My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
– Liza Minnelli
“My father has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.”
– Chelsea Clinton
“Confident women are raised by loving dads.”
– Nitya Prakash
“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is love their mother.”
– Anjaneth Garcia Untalan
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
– Ruth E. Renkel
“My father taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word.”
– Michelle Obama
“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
“A girl’s first true love is her father.”
– Marisol Santiago
“The only thing better than having you for a husband is our children having you for a daddy.”
– Unknown
“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
– Linda Poindexter
The Funniest Happy Father’s Day Quotes and Messages
“Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.”
– Dave Barry
“I gave my father $100 and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”
– Rita Rudner
“My 4-year-old son gave me a handmade card for Father’s Day. Maybe for Christmas I’ll draw him a picture of some toys.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“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 the old man had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain
“Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
– Martin Mull
“Never underestimate kids’ tenacity. Raising a child is like wrestling a small but relentless opponent.”
– Stephen Colbert
“There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep.’”
– Jim Gaffigan
“Being a dad isn’t just about eating a huge bag of gummy bears as your wife gives birth. It means being comfortable with the word hero.”
– Ryan Reynolds
“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”
– Jon Stewart
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
– Charles Wadsworth
“Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.”
– Reed Markham
“Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”
– Ray Romano
“Having a two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.”
– Conan O’Brien
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
– Steve Martin
“My daughter got me a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. So we know she’s sarcastic.”
– Bob Odenkirk
“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
“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”
– Spike Milligan
“I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, ‘My dad can beat up your dad.’ I’d say, ‘Yeah? When?’”
– Bill Hicks
“Even though I’m proud my dad invented the rearview mirror, we’re not as close as we appear.”
– Stewart Francis
“Father’s Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it’s the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.”
– Jimmy Fallon
“Me and my dad used to play tag. He’d drive.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps.”
– Jimmy Kimmel
“We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, ‘He wants his mother.’”
– Erma Bombeck
“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’”
– Jerry Lewis
“The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
The Best Short Happy Father’s Day Sayings
“A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.”
– Susan Gale
“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”
– Tim Russert
“A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you.”
– Dimitri the Stoneheart
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland
“The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child.”
– Roy Lessin
“The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.”
– Dan Pearce
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
– Sigmund Freud
“My dad’s my best mate, and he always will be.”
– Cher Lloyd
“No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.”
– Michael Ratnadeepak
“The greatest measure of a father is in the end not in what he provides, but in how present he is when it truly matters.”
– Unknown
“Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end.”
– George Strait
“It’s the most profound gift and the most daunting challenge at times.”
– Matt Bomer
“Life doesn’t come with an instruction book – that’s why we have fathers.”
– H. Jackson Browne
“The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched.”
– Justin Ricklefs
“Good fathers do three things: they provide, they nurture, and they guide.”
– Roland Warren
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
– Frank A. Clark
“A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart.”
– Jennifer Williamson
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
– Anne Sexton
The Most Inspirational Fathers Day Wishes and Quotes
“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
“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.”
– Sidney Poitier
“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”
– Mario Cuomo
“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
“My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do – be there.”
– Max Lucado
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.”
– Umberto Eco
“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Until you have a son of your own, you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.”
– Kent Nerburn
“Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.”
– Charles F. Kettering
“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.”
– The Talmud
“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life.”
– Hugh Jackman
“The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams, and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.”
– Reed Markham
“Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.”
– Brad Pitt
“There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.”
– Joni Eareckson Tada
“I feel that the greatest gift that I can give my children is the freedom to be who they are.”
– Will Smith
“Make sure you listen to your kids. Don’t just hear them. But listen to them. It’s very hard to do, but it’s so worthwhile.”
– Kwame Alexander
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
– Billy Graham
“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.”
– Frank Pittman
“No love is greater than that of a father for his son.”
– Dan Brown
“A good father makes childhood feel like a safe harbor and adulthood like an open sea full of possibilities that you can make into reality.”
– Jim Harper
“I’m happy to have grown up and become a dad in an era where the job description of father has been expanded so successfully. I just think that it gives us more agency in the raising of our children, and that’s a good thing.”
– LeVar Burton
Want more inspirational words for your celebration? Then have a look at these positive and love-filled Father’s Day quotes, the funny Father’s Day sayings here, the Father’s Day in Heaven messages and quotes in this post and also this one with short but powerful Father’s Day quotes.