30 Father To Daughter Quotes On Success In Life
These father to daughter quotes will inspire you. Fathers play a unique role in their daughters’ lives, and there are some things that need to be spoken out loud from father to daughter.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy and encouraging father to daughter quotes, father to daughter sayings, and father to daughter proverbs.
Inspirational Father To Daughter Quotes
- “A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.” ~ Bruce Barton
- “Dad – a son’s first hero, a daughter’s first love.” ~ John Walter Bratton
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“It was my father who taught me to value myself.” ~ Dawn French
- “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
- “Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes, and the objects of our most watchful love.” ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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“Never love anything that can’t love you back.” ~ Bruce Williams
- “The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.” ~ Garrison Keillor
- “To her, the name of father was another name for love.” ~ Fanny Fern
- “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” ~ Theodore Hesburgh
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“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” ~ Clarence Budington Kelland
- “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ~ Euripides
- “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
- “As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.” ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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“The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!” ~ John Walter Bratton
- “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.” ~ Imelda Marcos
- “There’s a special place in heaven for caregivers.” ~ Maureen Reagan
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“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.” ~ Enid Bagnold
- “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” ~ Anne Sexton
- “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
- “All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.” ~ Margaret Atwood
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“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” ~ George Herbert
- “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
- “The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock – full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat – like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.” ~ Phyllis McGinley
- “Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.” ~ Phyllis McGinley
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“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” ~ Pope John XXIII
- “You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.” ~ Erika Cosby
- “He’s [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.” ~ Margaret Truman Daniel
- “I can’t imagine my life without you.” ~ Anonymous
- “Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.” ~ Margaret Ann Courtney
