50+ Inspirational Quotes About Daughters That Celebrate Love and Strength

"And though she be but little, she is fierce."

- Shakespeare

"The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime."

- Ama H. Vanniarachchy

"A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

- Agatha Christie

"Find it within you to love exactly who you are and to know you’re capable, you’re loved and you’re beautiful. The world is a better place, because of you. You are unique because there is only ONE of you."

- Shantel VanSanten

"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."

- Mitch Albom

"I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life."

- Ian McEwan

"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's."

- Kifah Shah

"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

- Nghi Vo

"In times of need, and in times of tears, in times of joy and in times of fears… there is mom. The one person who is always there."

- Heather Stillufsen

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."

- Maya Angelou

"I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights."

- Terri Guillemets

"My mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her."

- Julie Walters

"Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love."

- Margaret E. Sangster

"Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart."

- Alan Beck

"A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds."

- Barbara Cage

"You are my angel, you remind me of the goodness in this world and inspire me to be the greatest version of myself."

- Steve Maraboli

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where a backbone ought to be."

- Clementine Paddleford

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free."

- Kavita Ramdas

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice."

- Bethany Hamilton

"And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears."

- Mark Anthony

"What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be."

- Helen Claes

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."

- Coco Chanel

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

"Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold."

- Sarah McCane

"My wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to; your dreams stay big and your worries stay small; you never need to carry more than you can hold."

- Rascal Flatts

"I am not a perfect mother and I will never be. You are not a perfect daughter and you will never be. But put us together and we will be the best mother and daughter we would ever be."

- Zoraida Pesante

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

"My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along."

- Denise Van Outen

"My Dearest Baby, You gave me the strength I didn't know I had. You taught me the true meaning of serenity and peace."

- Serena Williams

"Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter."

- Caitlin Houston

"A mother’s love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother’s love bears strength, comfort, healing, and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope."

- Ellen J. Barrier

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

- Erich Fromm

"Mother is comfort. Mother is home."

- Ruta Sepetys

"A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give."

- Laurel Atherton

"No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them."

- Christie Watson

"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."

- Princess Diana

"You don’t know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don’t have a child, you don’t know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever."

- Regina King

"A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"Children and mothers never truly part, bound in the beating of each other’s heart."

- Charlotte Gray

"A mother’s treasure is her daughter."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self."

- Channing Tatum

"Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angel-shine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart."

- Alan Beck

"It’s a different kind of love. It’s very pure, it’s unconditional, but they haven’t earned it yet. They didn’t do anything, they just exist and you love them completely, but it’s not built on anything other than their existence."

- John Legend

"The dearest things I know are what you are."

- Oscar Hammerstein II

"You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars."

- E.E. Cummings

"The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother."

- Sharon Olds

"Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with."

- Melia Keeton-Digby

"Words can be worrisome, people complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear."

- Neil Gaiman

"My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her."

- Sonya Teclai

"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."

- Jodi Picoult

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field since the payment is pure love."

- Mildred Vermont

"The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way."

- Joyce Carol Oates

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

- Ricki Lake

"Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity."

- Alice Hoffman

"As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong."

- Kristin Hannah

"There were times when…I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."

- Taylor Swift

"A mother’s and daughter’s love is never separated."

- Viola Shipman

"One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

- Dorothy C. Fisher

"Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture, dignity and love."

- John Milton

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Each day I give thanks for you and appreciate all that you do."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"A child's first teacher is its mother."

- Peng Liyuan

"The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom."

- Sandra Vischer

"Thank you for being the answer to the prayer I hadn’t realized I asked for."

- Marisa Donnelly

"She makes the day brighter. She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes."

- Kate Spade

"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter."

- Anita Diamant

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

- Winnie the Pooh

"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother."

- Anna Quindlen

"I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile."

- Adriana Trigiani

"Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together."

- Susan Gale

"Being a mother is learning about the strengths you didn’t know you had… and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed."

- Linda Wooten

"We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise."

- Rick Riordan

"As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too."

- Amy Newmark

"There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"Motherhood is difficult and rewarding."

- Gloria Estefan

"Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness."

- Ben Sirach

"When we asked for a daughter, we were sent a princess."

- Sally Huss

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."

- Wynonna Judd

"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth."

- Margaret Dilloway

"A mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself."

- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return."

- Jodi Picoult

"They both began to giggle and then…fell into a side-splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother and daughter can share."

- Karen Kingsbury

"[Mother-daughter] disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around."

- Barbara Delinsky

"By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong."

- Sada Malhotra

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Already Taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."

- Margaret Atwood

"I thought I’d never be that annoying person, but as soon as Winnie was born, I was showing iPhone snaps to a cab driver."

- Jimmy Fallon

"Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away."

- Heather Gudenkauf

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

- Honoré de Balzac

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?."

- Milton Berle

"You are loved. For the daughter you are, the woman you will become and the precious daughter you will always be."

"I didn’t give you the gift of life. Life graciously gave me the gift of you."

"Words cannot describe how much you are loved, a daughter like you is a treasure."

"A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart."

"The love between a mother and daughter is FOREVER."

"A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart."

"A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future."

"Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty."

"A mother is a daughter’s best friend."

"The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children."

"Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

"Mother and daughter from the start, best friends forever from the heart."

"Her smile makes me smile. Her laugh is infectious. Her heart is pure and true. Above all, I love that she is my daughter."

"There is nothing as powerful as a mother's love, and nothing as healing as a child's soul."

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."

"I don’t want you to walk in my footsteps. I want you to walk in the path beside me and go even further, than I could ever dream of."

"Happiness is seeing your daughter smile."

"My little ones, take pride in how far you have come. Have faith in how far you can go."

"Happiness is mother and daughter time."

"A mother is the only person in the world, who can turn daughter’s worries and fears into happiness."

"Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart."

"Life began with waking up and seeing my daughter’s face."

"Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother."

"My greatest blessings call me mom."

- Unknown

"Mom – a title just above the queen."

"A daughter is one of the most precious gifts this world can give."

"A daughter is God’s way of saying, ‘Thought you could use a lifelong friend.’"

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