Plump up the sofa, dust off his records and prepare to indulge every hobby, for Father’s Day is not far off. After all that lift-giving, arm wrestling and secret-recipe-creating he deserves a bit of a treat, so why not indulge him with a personalized book for a gift with a difference?
You could then make it extra special by popping a few special words and a Father’s Day quote in the dedication to be printed on the first page, for free. Whoever the father figure is in your life, we’ve rounded up a ton of funny, inspiring and heartwarming Father’s Day quotes they’ll love.
Happy Father’s Day quotes
• “A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” – Unknown
• “You are simply the best.” – Tina Turner
• “Some people don’t believe in heroes but they haven’t met my Dad” – Unknown
• “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” – Linda Poindexter
• “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature” – Antoine François Prévost, Manon Lescaut
• “My dad’s my best mate, and he always will be.” – Cher Lloyd
• “A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.” – Emile Gaboriau
• “Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.” – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
• “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
• “[My father] always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.” – Chelsea Clinton
• “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.” – Tim Russert
• “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.” – Unknown
• “No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word: father.” – Lydia Maria Child
• “My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do: be there.” – Max Lucado
• “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
• “Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.” – Pam Brown
• “A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.” – Susan Gale
• “To the world, you are a dad. But to our family, you are the world.” – Unknown
Happy Father’s Day: quote from daughter
• “We earned each other.” – Kristen Bell
• “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
• “I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.” – Maria Cuomo Cole
• “To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” – Euripides
• “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
• “I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.” – Liza Minnelli
• “To her, the name of father was another name for love.” – Fanny Fern
• “My father taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word.” – Michelle Obama
Happy Father’s Day: son quotes we love
• “Every son’s first superhero is his father.” – Tiger Schraff
• “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” – William Shakespeare
• “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• “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 A. Baldwin
• “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.” – Tim Russert
• “The greatest tribute a boy can give to his father is to say, ‘When I grow up, I want to be just like my dad.'” – Billy Graham
• “Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me.” – Wade Boggs
• “By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadsworth
• “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” – Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
• “An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom.” – C.S. Lewis
