50+ Best Father's Day Quotes That Will Warm His Heart

Make your dad happy on Father's Day! We know you'll be prepared with the best Father's Day gift and a special gift to accompany it with a Father's Day Father's Day card as Father's Day, which is on June 19, approaches. But how can you sum up how much he means to you when it's time to put pen to paper? Don't worry, we've compiled a list of the best father-daughter quotes to help you express yourself. These Father's Day quotes will make your father, grandpa, or any key male figure in your life feel more cherished on his special day. Here's a message that may bring tears to your eyes or make you laugh out loud.

From poignant quotations to amusing dad jokes and everything in between, this collection of beautiful words has it all, including this insightful phrase from Stanley T. Banks: "You fathers will understand. You've got a small girl. She's staring right at you. You're her seer, aren't you? Her hero is you." Bindi Irwin's short, lovely messages are heartbreaking: "My dad is and always will be my live, breathing superman."

For exceptional sayings that will make your heart swell with affection on Father's Day, read stepfather quotes and favorite father-son quotes.

Best Father-Daughter Quotes That Will Warm His Heart

“It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for a father who takes his daughter shopping.” – John Sinor

"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love something that can’t love you back." – Imelda Marcos

"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature." – Antoine Francis Prevost

"Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man." –Frank Pittman

"A father is a son's first hero and a daughter's first love." Unknown

“"There's two things I know for sure: She was sent here from heaven and she's daddy's little girl." – Bob Carlisle

"He sweeps her hair back from her ears and he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement, he says he will never leave her, not in a million years." – Anthony Doerr

"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature." – Bob Carlisle

"A son is a son till he gets a wife; a daughter is a daughter for the rest of her life." – Irish Saying

“"Of all the titles I've been privileged to have, 'Dad' has always been the best." – Ken Norton

"You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero." – Stanley T. Banks

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." – Enid Bagnold

"Fathers, be your daughter’s first love and she’ll never settle for anything less." – Unknown

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection." – Sigmund Freud

"Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half―especially if he has a teenage daughter." – Guy Lombardo

“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”  — Linda Poindexter

“My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.”  — Gwyneth Paltrow

“My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams.”   — Liza Minelli

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”   — Gloria Naylor

“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 Lamar

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

“No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.”  – Michael Ratnadeepak

“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

“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 think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts’.” – Paul Walker

“The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.” – Elaine S.Dalton

“Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half — especially if he has a teenage daughter.” – Guy Lombardo

“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.” - Imelda Marcos

“A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life.” – Dr. James Godson

“When fathers struggle with being authentic, they leave muddy footprints on little girls’ hearts.” – Tina Samples

“To be a successful father, there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.”  – Ernest Hemingway

“Dad, I wouldn’t trade you for anything. Of course, nobody’s offered me anything.” – Melanie White.

“No one in this world can love a girl more than her father. – Michael Ratnadeepak

“Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.”  – John Mayor

“He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.”  – George Saunders

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”  – Mother Teresa

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”  – Richard Bach

“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.”  – Euripides

“I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.”  – Lady Gaga

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.”  – Clarence Budington Kelland

“A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.”  – Mat Johnson

“Nobody asks to be a hero; it just sometimes turns out that way.”  — Black Hawk Down

“When I look at her, it’s like when I was in 7th grade and fell in love for the first time, where it’s debilitating.”  — Dax Shepard

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”  — Jim Bishop

“Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half — especially if he has a teenage daughter.”  – Guy Lombardo

“[My dad] taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.”  – Hope Jahren

“When a daughter is born, the ordinary life of a man turns into the extraordinary life of a father.”  – Unknown

“When daughters have engaged dads, they benefit from that relationship for a lifetime.”  – Kevin Leman

“I am a princess not because I have a prince, but because my father is a king.”  — Author Unknown

“A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”  — Gregory E. Lang

“A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.”  — Unknown