54 Daughter Quotes Filled with Love, Pride, and Joy
A daughter can be your best friend, your little sunshine, and your greatest blessing all in one.
So we’ve put together a list of all the best daughter quotes to help you share how much they mean to you.
Perfect for cards, captions, or just to make her smile. Keep them close—you’ll want to share them often.
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“A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.” — Irish Saying
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” — Euripides
“A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.” — Unknown
“A mother’s treasure is her daughter.” — Catherine Pulsifer
“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
“A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous…full of beauty and forever beautiful…loving and caring and truly amazing.” — Deanna Beisser
“A daughter is a treasure- and a cause of sleeplessness.” — Ben Sirach
“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
“A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.” — Laurel Atherton
“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.” — Gloria Naylor
“Daughters understand as they grow older, they become good friends.” — Catherine Pulsifer
“A daughter can lead to baldness, but the remainder of the road is just as smooth.” — Byron Pulsifer
“What the daughter does, the mother did.” — Jewish Proverb
“We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.” — Kifah Shah
“The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother’s life – without flinching or whining – the stronger the daughter.” — Anita Diamant
“Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.” — Rasmenia Massoud
“Do not forget to tell your daughters God made them beautiful.” — Habeeb Akande
“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.” — Jim Bishop
“Generally if you’re a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.” — Sandra Cisneros
“Good daughters make good mothers.” — Abigail G. Whittlesey
“And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.” — Ambrose Philips
“Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves.” — Laurie Jo Wojcik
“A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.” — Unknown
“Daughter are angels sent from above to fill our heart with unending love.” — J. Lee
“Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“A daughter will follow in her mom’s footsteps so make sure to set a good example.” — Elizabeth George
“If daughters couldn’t soften a man, then nothing would.” — Linda Weaver
“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.” — Benjamin Franklin
“A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.” — Unknown
“Daughters can sometimes be too serious, teach them to laugh and not take life too seriously.” — Catherine Pulsifer
“And though she be but little, she is fierce.” — William Shakespeare.
“To be the father of growing daughters is… to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body.” — Christopher Hitchens.
“She’s my best friend—she’s everything to me.” — Jacquelyn Middleton.
“Courage, sacrifice, determination… That’s what little girls are made of.” — Bethany Hamilton.
“Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.” — C.S. Lewis.
“Go on, take on this whole world / But to me, you know you’ll always be my little girl.” — Tim McGraw, “My Little Girl”
“Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?” — Jane Austen, “Emma”
“We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they have come.” — Ruth (Barbie)
“There is nothing better than to have a daughter and to love her.” — Jessamyn West
“Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.” — Toni Morrison, “Beloved”
“As long as one and one is two / There could never be a father loved his daughter / More than I love you.” — Paul Simon, “Father and Daughter”
“In all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.” — John Stephens, “The Emerald Atlas”
“You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.” — E. E. Cummings
“By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong.” — Sada Malhotra
“Isn’t she lovely? / Isn’t she wonderful? / Isn’t she precious? / Less than one minute old.” — Stevie Wonder, “Isn’t She Lovely”
“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
“I’m glad whenever I can share her laughter / That funny little girl.” — ABBA, “Slipping Through My Fingers”
“A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.” — Unknown
“Young as she is, the stuff / Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: I wish her a lucky passage.” — Richard Wilbur, “The Writer”
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A. A. Milne (Winnie‑the‑Pooh)
“There is freedom waiting for you, / On the breezes of the sky, / And you ask, ‘What if I fall?’ / Oh, but my darling, / What if you fly?” — Erin Hanson
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” — Robert Munsch, “Love You Forever”
“A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another.” — Kaitlyn Greenidge, “Libertie”
“Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.” — Heather Gudenkauf, “The Weight of Silence”
