Just like mothers, fathers too play an important role in the upbringing of children. In most cases, fathers and father figures play the role of a child's primary protector, caregiver, and provider. Their quiet presence in our lives is crucial for one's self-confidence and proper upbringing. They not only love, protect, support, and provide for their children but often also sacrifice a lot for the sake of their kids and family. And thus to honour and celebrate our father and the father figures in our lives, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June every year. This year, Father's Day will be marked on June 18, 2023 (Sunday).
On the occasion of Father's Day, here we list down some wishes, messages, author quotes, and images that you can send to your father or the father figures in your life to wish them on this special day. You can also post them on Facebook or use them as your Whatsapp status. Read on to know more.
Happy Father's Day 2023: Wishes, Messages, Facebook & Whatsapp status
1. Happy Father's Day, dad! Thank you for everything you have ever done for me.
2. Words are never enough to express how grateful I am to have you as my dad. Thank you for all you have done for me. Your sacrifice means a lot to me. H appy Father's Day!
3. While you might not be with us physically anymore, your thoughts and teachings are always with me. Thank you, dad. I miss you on this Father's Day!
4. Have a wonderful day, dad! Happy Father's Day!
5. Sending you lots of love and happiness on your special day today. Happy Father's Day!
6. Have a wonderful day and an healthy and amazing year ahead. Happy Father's Day!
7. I'll always be your daughter and support you, just like you supported me whenever I needed you. Happy Father's Day, dad! Have a great day!
8. You've been my pillar of strength and support through all the highs and lows in my life. Thank you so much, dad. Love you. Happy Father's Day!
9. Happy Father's Day to the best dad in the world! You are awesome. Happy Father's Day!
10. I will always have your back, just like you always had mine. Happy Father's Day!
11. Thank you for being such a great role model to all of us. Happy Father's Day!
12. While growing-up you were my superhero, and you will always be my superhero no matter what. Happy Father's Day!
Happy Father's Day 2023: Quotes by authors
1. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”- Antoine François Prévost, Manon Lescaut
2. “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, Tenth of December
3. “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
4. “Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.”- Andrew Galasetti, These Colors Don't Run
5. “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, File No. 113
6. “A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self."- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
7. “Fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special."- Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything
8. "There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself."- John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
9. "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
10. "My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems." — Stephen King
11. “He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.”
—Tom Wolfe
12. “Sometimes your role as a Dad is just to listen. Listen to sounds, music, those amazingly annoying Wonder Pets, whose voices are the real reason God invented Advil.”
—Brian A. Klems, Oh Boy, You’re Having a Girl
13. “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
14. “To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
15. “The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.”
― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask for a more Vibrant Marriage
Happy Father's Day 2023: Images
