"And though she be but little, she is fierce."
- Shakespeare
Strength
"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
Love
"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
Love
"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
Self-esteem
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."
- Mitch Albom
Love
"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
Love
"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's."
- Kifah Shah
Empowerment
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."
- Nghi Vo
Empowerment
"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
Compassion
"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
Love
"I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights."
- Terri Guillemets
Growth
"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
Inspiration
"We are born of love; love is our mother."
- Rumi
Love
"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her."
- Julie Walters
Reflection
"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
Love
"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
Love
"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
Love
"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
Inspiration
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where a backbone ought to be."
- Clementine Paddleford
Courage
"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."
- Stephanie Bennett Henry
Strength
"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
Empowerment
"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice."
- Bethany Hamilton
Courage
"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
Courage
"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
Aspirations
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."
- Coco Chanel
Aspirations
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
- Judy Garland
Belief in Self
"Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold."
- Sarah McCane
Empowerment
"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
Hope
"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
Family
"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."
- Stephanie Bennet Henry
Courage
"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
Achievement
"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
Empowerment
"Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter."
- Caitlin Houston
Love
"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
Love
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
- Erich Fromm
Love
"Mother is comfort. Mother is home."
- Ruta Sepetys
Love
"A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give."
- Laurel Atherton
Love
"No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them."
- Christie Watson
Connection to Earth
"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."
- Princess Diana
Love
"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
Love
"A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."
- Emily Dickinson
Connection to Earth
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
- Robert Browning
Motivation
"Children and mothers never truly part, bound in the beating of each other’s heart."
- Charlotte Gray
Love
"A mother’s treasure is her daughter."
- Catherine Pulsifer
Love
"My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self."
- Channing Tatum
Empowerment
"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
Joy
"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
Love
"The dearest things I know are what you are."
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Love
"You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars."
- E.E. Cummings
Love
"The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother."
- Sharon Olds
Reflection
"Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with."
- Melia Keeton-Digby
Empowerment
"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
Wisdom
"My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived."
- Nayyirah Waheed
Love
"My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her."
- Sonya Teclai
Empowerment
"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field since the payment is pure love."
- Mildred Vermont
Love
"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
Relationships
"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."
- Ricki Lake
Adversity
"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
Family
"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
Love
"There were times when…I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."
- Taylor Swift
Relationships
"A mother’s and daughter’s love is never separated."
- Viola Shipman
Love
"One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers."
- Iyanla Vanzant
Relationships
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
- Dorothy C. Fisher
Empowerment
"Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture, dignity and love."
- John Milton
Love
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
- Barbara Kingsolver
Strength
"Each day I give thanks for you and appreciate all that you do."
- Catherine Pulsifer
Gratitude
"A child's first teacher is its mother."
- Peng Liyuan
Education
"The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom."
- Sandra Vischer
Love
"Thank you for being the answer to the prayer I hadn’t realized I asked for."
- Marisa Donnelly
Gratitude
"She makes the day brighter. She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes."
- Kate Spade
Love
"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter."
- Anita Diamant
Growth
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- Winnie the Pooh
Compassion
"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother."
- Anna Quindlen
Belief
"I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile."
- Adriana Trigiani
Joy
"Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together."
- Susan Gale
Love
"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
Personal Growth
"We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight."
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Growth
"The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise."
- Rick Riordan
Belief
"As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too."
- Amy Newmark
Growth
"There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."
- Jill Churchill
Belief in Self
"Motherhood is difficult and rewarding."
- Gloria Estefan
Growth
"Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
- Marilyn Monroe
Creativity
"A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness."
- Ben Sirach
Love
"When we asked for a daughter, we were sent a princess."
- Sally Huss
Love
"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."
- Wynonna Judd
Relationships
"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."
- Robert A. Heinlein
Belief in Self
"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
Gratitude
"Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth."
- Margaret Dilloway
Honesty
"A mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself."
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Family
"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
Joy
"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
Joy
"[Mother-daughter] disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around."
- Barbara Delinsky
Relationships
"By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong."
- Sada Malhotra
Relationships
"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
- Oprah Winfrey
Love
"Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Already Taken."
- Oscar Wilde
Self-confidence
"Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse."
- Robert A. Heinlein
Love
"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."
- Margaret Atwood
Awareness
"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
Joy
"Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away."
- Heather Gudenkauf
Reflection
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
- Honoré de Balzac
Compassion
"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?."
- Milton Berle
Wisdom
"You are loved. For the daughter you are, the woman you will become and the precious daughter you will always be."
Love
"I didn’t give you the gift of life. Life graciously gave me the gift of you."
Love
"Words cannot describe how much you are loved, a daughter like you is a treasure."
Love
"A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart."
Love
"The love between a mother and daughter is FOREVER."
Love
"A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart."
Love
"A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future."
Love
"Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty."
Nature
"A mother is a daughter’s best friend."
Connection to Earth
"The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children."
Contentment
"Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."
Love
"Mother and daughter from the start, best friends forever from the heart."
Connection to Earth
"Her smile makes me smile. Her laugh is infectious. Her heart is pure and true. Above all, I love that she is my daughter."
Love
"There is nothing as powerful as a mother's love, and nothing as healing as a child's soul."
Healing
"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."
Love
"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."
Ambition
"Happiness is seeing your daughter smile."
Joy
"My little ones, take pride in how far you have come. Have faith in how far you can go."
Motivation
"Happiness is mother and daughter time."
Happiness
"A mother is the only person in the world, who can turn daughter’s worries and fears into happiness."
Love
"Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart."
Connection to Earth
"Life began with waking up and seeing my daughter’s face."
Love
"Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother."
Love
"My greatest blessings call me mom."
- Unknown
Love
"Mom – a title just above the queen."
Love
"A daughter is one of the most precious gifts this world can give."
Achievement
"A daughter is God’s way of saying, ‘Thought you could use a lifelong friend.’"
Love
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Family