100+ Inspirational Quotes to Daughter from Parents: A Heartfelt Collection

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

- Caitlin Houston

"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

"I’ve made it my business to observe fathers and daughters. And I’ve seen some incredible, beautiful things. Like the little girl who’s not very cute – her teeth are funny, and her hair doesn’t grow right, and she’s got on thick glasses – but her father holds her hand and walks with her like she’s a tiny angel that no one can touch. He gives her the best gift a woman can get in this world: protection. And the little girl learns to trust the man in her life. And all the things that the world expects from women – to be beautiful, to soothe the troubled spirit, heal the sick, care for the dying, send the greeting card, bake the cake – all of those things become the way we pay the father back for protecting us."

- Adriana Trigiani

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

- Jim Valvano

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."

- Dawn French

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray."

- Jimmie Davis

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Sarah McCane

"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

"You are more than my daughter; you are my sunshine, my moonlight, and all of my stars."

- E. Grinde

"Ordinary father-daughter love had a charge to it that generally was both permitted and indulged. There was just something so beautiful about the big father complementing the tiny girl. Bigness and tininess together at last—yet the bigness would never hurt the tininess! It respected it. In a world in which big always crushes tiny, you wanted to cry at the beauty of big being kind of and worshipful of and being humbled by tiny. You couldn’t help but think of your own father as you saw your little girl with hers."

- Meg Wolitze

"It was my father who taught me to value myself."

- Dawn French

"A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life."

- Dr. James Dobson

"Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world."

- John Mayer

"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

"When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back."

- Linda Poindexter

"A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives."

- Ama H. Vanniarachchy

"My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun."

- Bindi Irwin

"When my daughter says ‘Daddy I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more."

- Stanley Behrman

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

- Richard Bach

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters, there is something which there are no words to express."

- Joseph Addison

"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

"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 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

"One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say. Those memories will help you through less joyous times when their adoration is replaced by embarrassment or annoyance and they don’t want you to see what they are doing or hear what they are saying. And yet, you will adore your daughter every day of her life, hoping to be valued again, but realizing how fortunate you were even if you only get what you already got."

- Michael Josephson

"Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don’t care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don’t mind."

- Tracy Morgan

"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

"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song."

- Pam Brown

"A mother’s treasure is her daughter."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"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 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

"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

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

- Mildred B. Vermont

"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 living mother-daughter relationship, you learn over and over again, is a constant choice between adaptation and acceptance."

- Kelly Corrigan

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Rumi

""The highest compliment anyone can give me is to say that I’m like my daughter.""

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Mitch Albom

""I love our daughters more than anything in the world, more than life itself. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.""

- Michelle Obama

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

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"A daughter is the arrow that leaves the bow, but the mother is the bow that sends her forth."

- African Proverb

"Mother is comfort. Mother is home."

- Ruta Sepetys

""As mothers and daughters, we are connected to one another. My mother is in the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is in my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is in the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.""

- Kristin Hannah

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

- Laurel Atherton

"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

"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

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"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

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter."

- Joseph Addison

"To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter."

- Euripides

"A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem."

- Naomi Wolf

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Sharon Olds

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

- Sandra Vischer

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

- Melia Keeton-Digby

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

- Adriana Trigiani

"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

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

- Erich Fromm

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

- Jill Churchill

"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

"Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Already Taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Emily Dickinson

"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

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

- Dorothy C. Fisher

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Ricki Lake

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Anita Diamant

"My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings."

- Erica Jong

"When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away."

- Hugh Jackman

"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

"My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

"You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you’re in a constant state of panic."

- Stanley T. Banks

"No one in this world can love a girl more than her father."

- Michael Ratnadeepak

"Daddy, thanks for being my hero, chauffeur, financial support, listener, life mentor, friend, guardian, and simply being there every time I need a hug."

- Agatha Stephanie Lin

"Being a daddy’s girl is like having permanent armor for the rest of your life."

- Marinela Reka

"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

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

- Mother Teresa

""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

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Peng Liyuan

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

- Wynonna Judd

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

- Amy Newmark

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

- Susan Gale

"Motherhood is difficult and rewarding."

- Gloria Estefan

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Margaret Dilloway

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Sada Malhotra

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

- Sonya Teclai

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

- Nayyirah Waheed

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

- Anna Quindlen

""To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.""

- Euripides

""Having a daughter makes you see things in a different light… Through her eyes, through her thoughts, and through her dreams… You finally get what human being is all about.""

- Jodi Picoult

""When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother…When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.""

- Anna Quindlen

""Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved.""

- Jojo Moyes

""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

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

- Caitlin Houston

""Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there""

- Edith Wharton

""My daughter introduced me to myself… the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something that I’ve never felt before.""

- Beyoncé

""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

""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

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

- Anita Diamant

""She taught by her own example, that the most evolved person is seemingly a contradiction—they are both the strongest and the most vulnerable person in the room.""

- Billie Lourd

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

- Dorothy C. Fisher

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

- Sonya Teclai

""Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.""

- Signe Hammer

""My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.""

- Erica Jong

""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

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

- Emily Dickinson

""My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis. Every morning when I wake her up, the endgame is,  Can I get her to smile?  And that puts me in a good mood.""

- Drew Barrymore

""I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in that wilderness.""

- Viola Davis

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

- Marisa Donnelly

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

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Ben Sirach

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

- Heather Gudenkauf

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

- Gloria Naylor

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

- Terri Guillemets

""My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.""

- Josh Hutcherson

""No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.""

- Cardinal Mermillod

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

- Sandra Vischer

""It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do in your life. You never stop needing your mom.""

- Kate Winslet

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

- Laurel Atherton

""Mother was comfort. Mother was home.""

- Ruta Sepetys

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Melia Keeton-Digby

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

- Christie Watson

""My mom and I are freakishly linked.""

- Rory Gilmore

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

- Amy Newmark

"The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

""Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.""

- Leroy Brownlow

"“A mother’s treasure is her daughter.”"

- Catherine Pulsifer

""God couldn't be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers.""

- Diane Keaton

""I am not a perfect person by any means. I am far from it. But I try to live my life so that I would be proud of my children if they turned out just like me.""

- Shannon Alder

"A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be."

- Steve Martin

""Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.""

- Chuck Palahniuk

"My daughter, you are my heart, my soul, and my greatest accomplishment."

"My daughter, you are the poem I never knew how to write and the melody in my heart."

"They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps."

"To my daughter. Never forget that I love you. Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can. Be the woman I know you can be."

"In the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown."

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there but a guiding light whose love shows us the way."

"A daughter may outgrow your lap but she’ll never outgrow your heart."

- Unknown

"Dad: a daughter’s first love."

- Unknown

"When I’m at my best, I am my father’s daughter."

"Dad, even a fleeting memory of your loving smile is enough to light up my darkest days. I love you!"

- Unknown

"No other love in the world is like the love of a father has for his little girl."

"Happiness is seeing your daughter smile."

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

"The love between a father and daughter is forever."

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

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

"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."

"Happiness is mother and daughter time."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"My greatest blessings call me mom."

- Unknown

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

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

"Mom – a title just above the queen."

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

"You brought me every single toy that I wanted when I was young. I hope I can return the favor when I grow up by achieving every single goal that you always wanted me to. I love you."

"I am a princess not because I have a prince, but because my father is a king."

"You have seen me at my worst, yet you think that I am the best. I love you, Dad."

"Nothing makes me feel stronger than knowing that I have a dad who’s got my back. I love you."

"Some people don’t believe in heroes but they haven’t met my dad."

"A father holds his daughter’s hand for a short while, but he holds her heart forever."

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

""To my daughter. Never forget that I love you. Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can. Be the woman I know you can be.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"Dad. He can play like a kid, give advice like a friend, and protect like a bodyguard."

- Unknown

"There is this girl who stole my heart and she calls me Daddy."

- Unknown

"One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten came from God. I call him daddy."

- Unknown

"Dear Daddy, no matter where I go in life, you’ll always be my number one man."

"Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad."

- Unknown

""I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.""

- Unknown

""A daughter is someone you laugh with, hope with, and dream with. Someone who fills your heart with happiness and makes even your sorrows seem sweet.""

- Unknown

"“Daughters are far more precious than jewels.”"

- Unknown

""A mother and a daughter always share a special bond, which is engraved on their hearts.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"“My greatest blessings call me mom.”"

- Unknown

""A father’s love for his daughter is like nothing else in the world.""

- Unknown

""The love between a father and daughter is forever.""

- Unknown

"“Happiness is mother and daughter time.”"

- Unknown

""For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

""No matter how old you get, you’ll always be my baby girl.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

""First my mother, forever my friend.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

""Daughters are not just for Christmas; they are for life.""

- Unknown

""A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

""Mother (n): A person who does the work of many. For free.""

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"A daughter's love is FOREVER."

"Dad, you’ve always been the coolest – like all those times you said ‘yes’ when Mom said ‘no.’"

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

""Having a mini-me is all fun and games until she starts acting just like you.""

- Unknown

"A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend."

"A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow."

- Unknown

"Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing father."

- Unknown

"A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous."

""If you have ever done me wrong, just know my mom knows and she doesn't like you.""

- Unknown

""By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she is wrong.""

- Unknown

""I smile because I'm your daughter. I laugh because there's nothing you can do about it.""

- Unknown

"Mothers and daughters are closest when daughters become mothers."