88 Best Father's Day Quotes That Celebrate All We Love About Dad

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.

Having kids is one of the few things in my life that I wish I did sooner. And I didn’t have kids late, so it’s not like, “Oh, I’m going to be old when I have kids.” I’ve just so enjoyed it; it’s made me better in so many ways.

I didn't want [my daughter] thinking that somebody would come around to give her a glass slipper or save her from some dragon. I want her to make as many glass slippers as she wants to wear for her and her friends and to sell them if she wants.”

The truth is if you come at them with love and care and a level of thoughtfulness your kids look back and go, ‘You knew what to say to me. You knew what to say."

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.

All of those clichés are true. You don't actually understand your capacity for love until you go into this. And each time I've fallen in love with my daughter, I'm, like, oh, this is what everybody's talking about. And then two days later I'm like, oh, no, this is it. And I'm just overwhelmed by the intensity of that feeling.

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.

I feel that the greatest gift that I can give my children is the freedom to be who they are.

Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken and there’s a lot of throwing up.

Of all the titles I’ve been privileged to have, ‘Dad’ has always been the best.

You might not have my name, but you have my blood.

Listen, you’re my children and I love you, but you’re all terrible at what you do here and I feel like I should tell you. I’d fire all of you if I could.

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.

And I only hope when I have my own family / That every day I see a little more of my father in me

Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

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.

I've always said that if my son thinks of me as one of his idiot friends, I've succeeded as a dad.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word — father.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

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