Top 30 Father's Day Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Clarence Budington Kelland

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

— Jim Valvano

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3. “Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”

— Anne Geddes

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4. “A man should never neglect his family for business.”

— Walt Disney

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5. “The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.”

— Vin Diesel

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6. “No love is greater than that of a father for his son.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Theodore Hesburgh

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8. “Dad is a son's first hero and a daughter's first love.”

— Anonymous

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9. “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”

— Lee Iacocca

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10. “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

— Mario Puzo

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11. “I love my son and am proud of my son.”

— Robert H. Schuller

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12. “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”

— Tim Russert

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

— Charles Wadsworth

14. “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”

— Anonymous

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

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

— Susan Gale

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

— Antoine François Prévost

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Anne Sexton

20. “A father is someone who is proud to see you get your first car, but secretly wishes it had no keys.”

— Linda Poindexter

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21. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

— George Herbert

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22. “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

— William Shakespeare

23. “It is a wise father who knows his own child.”

— William Shakespeare

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24. “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

25. “Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”

— Ruth E. Renkel

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26. “Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

27. “A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.”

— Stephen King

28. “A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl.”

— Allison Pearson

29. “It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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30. “No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word – father.”

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

31. “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”

— John Wilmot

32. “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”

— Enid Bagnold

33. “Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

— Bill Cosby