There are tonnes of father daughter quotes and sayings that perfectly capture what it's like to a dad to a wonderful little girl, or a daughter to an amazing dad.

Some of these might make excellent quotes to accompany birthday wishes for your Daughter, or perhaps an inspiring note at graduation, or maybe even something to include in your father of the bride wedding speech.

You might be reading this as a daddy's girl looking for some birthday wishes for your dad or something to tell him he's a truly amazing dad as you wish him a Happy Father's Day.

The father and daughter relationship is something unique and we've got some of the best Father Daughter Quotes that will truly reflect your special bond.

Song lyrics about dads and daughters

Some songs were written explicitly about a dad and his daughter, while others may have been written romantically but since been taken to describe love between any two people. These songs and lyrics not only make for incredibly touching father daughter quotes, but they might also provide some inspiration for the father daughter dance at her wedding!

1. “Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.”
– John Mayor, 'Daughters'

2. “You’re the end of the rainbow, my pot o’ gold. You’re Daddy’s little girl to have and hold.”
– Michael Bublé, Daddy’s Little Girl'

3. “So you’ll always know, as long as one and one is two, there could never be a father who loved his daughter more than I love you.”
– Paul Simon, 'Father and Daughter'

4. “Gonna dance with my daughter. Spin her around under the lights. ‘Cause I’m just a father making the most of this moment in time.”
– Jason Blaine, 'Dance With My Daughter'

5. “There's two things I know for sure: She was sent here from heaven and she's daddy's little girl.”
 – Bob Carlisle, 'Butterfly Kisses'

6. “Isn’t she pretty, truly the angel’s best. I’m so happy we have been Heaven-blessed.”
–Stevie Wonder, 'Isn’t She Lovely'

7. “From the first breath she breathed, when she first smiled at me, I knew the love of a father runs deep, and I prayed that she’d find you someday. But it’s still hard to give her away, I loved her first.”
– Heartland, 'I Loved Her First'

8. “Hey, little girl, look what you’ve done. You’ve gone and stole my heart and made it your own.”
– Jack Johnson, 'My Little Girl'

9. “Go on, take on this whole world. But to me you know you'll always be my little girl.”
–Tim McGraw, 'My Little Girl'

10. "I'll be there to guide you, when trouble walks beside you. If you need me, I'll be there."
– Bruce Springsteen, 'When You Need Me'

11. "Don't know how long it's gonna take to feel okay. But I know I had the best day with you today. I have an excellent father. His strength is making me stronger."
– Taylor Swift, "The Best Day"

12. "Did you ever know that you're my hero?"
– Bette Midler, 'Wind Beneath My Wings'

Funny quotes about dads and daughters

Sometimes the only way to describe father daughter relationships is 'funny'. That's why these father daughter quotes capture the lighter side of being a father. Arguably, that's what makes them the best father daughter quotes.

13. "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

14. “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

15. “A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness.”
– Ben Sirach

16. “One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.”
– Unknown

17. “A daughter can lead to baldness, but the remainder of the road is just as smooth.”
– Bryan Pulsifer

18. “Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11:30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.”
– James T. Adams

19. “I don't have to prepare to be wrapped around my daughter's finger. I have been wrapped around her little finger since the day she plopped out into this world.”
– Ryan Reynolds

20. “Dads immediately fall in love with their little girls and will let them get away with everything. So, moms are going to have to be the disciplinarians when it comes to daughters.”
– Jimmy Fallon

21. “It doesn’t matter how manly you are, when your little girl wants to have a fairy tea party, you have to join!”
– Unknown
 

22. “Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half — especially if he has a teenage daughter.”
– Guy Lombardo

23. "Dad: Spider-killing superhero."
– Unknown

24. "My daughter doesn't have any daddy issues, but I can guarantee her boyfriend will."
– Unknown

25. "A father carries pictures where his money used to be." 
– Steve Martin

26. "A daughter can lead to baldness, but the remainder of the road is just as smooth."
– Unknown

Heartfelt father daughter quotes and sayings

The father and daughter relationship is so often filled with such emotion. We know that a father and daughter have such special bond and that's why it was so important to express that. Some of these touch on the emotion of the father daughter bond, others seek to inspire - just like our inspirational quotes about fatherhood.

27. “Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad.”
– Unknown

28. “A father holds his daughter’s hand for a short while, but he holds her heart forever.”
– Unknown

29. “No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.”
– Michael Ratnadeepak

30. “This relationship has something special about it, that makes every father and every daughter in the world speak warmly about it.”
– Unknown

31. “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

32. “Fathers, be your daughter’s first love and she’ll never settle for anything less.”
– Unknown

33. “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”
– Unknown

34. “A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life.”
– Dr. James Dobson

35. “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

36. “When I’m at my best, I am my father’s daughter.”
– Unknown

37. “To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
– Euripides

38. “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

39. “The smile of a daughter is the secret purpose of every father.”
– Unknown

40. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."
– Antoine Francis Prevost

41. “She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.”
— Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

42. “The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.” 
– Elaine S. Dalton

43. “I took my daughter to the father daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby. She’s 11 years old, so seeing her get dressed up and pretty made me cry.”
– Kevin Hart

44. “When my daughter says, ‘Daddy, I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.”
– Stanley Behrman

45. “My dad believed in me, even when I didn't. He always knew I could do this.”
– Taylor Swift

46. “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

47. “My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow

48. “My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams.”
– Liza Minelli

49. “He who has daughters is always a shepherd.”
– French proverb

50. "To her, the name of father was another name for love."
– Fanny Fern

51. "I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is."
– Idris Elba

Cute father daughter quotes

Father and daughters are something special. Every father adores his little girl, especially when she's cute as a button and knows she can get away with anything.

Here are some incredibly cute father daughter quotes.

52. “When you’re young, you think your dad is Superman. Then you grow up, and you realize he’s just a regular guy who wears a cape.”
– Unknown

53. “A little girl giggles when she is denied an ice-cream by her mother. She knows daddy will get her some later.”
– Unknown

54. “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

55. “The love between a father and daughter is forever.”
– Unknown

56. “A daughter may outgrow your lap but she’ll never outgrow your heart.”
– Unknown

57. “No other love in the world is like the love of a father has for his little girl.”
– Unknown

58. “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

59. “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.”
– Unknown

60. “A father’s job is not to teach his daughter how to be a lady. It’s to teach her how a lady should be treated.”
– Unknown

61. “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.”
– Michael Josephson

62. “A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.”
– Mat Johnson, Loving Day

63. "When a daughter is born, an ordinary life of a man turns into an extraordinary life of a father."
– Unknown

64. "The laugh of a daughter is the favourite symphony of a father."
– Unknown

65. "I rescind my early statement, 'I could never fall in love with a girl who regularly poops her pants.' (I hadn't met my daughter yet)."
– Unknown

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

67. “Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.”
– Bindi Irwin

68. "All my life's problems have just one simple solution — a hug from my daughter."
– Unknown

69. "A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend."
– Unknown

70. "My best smile is probably when I'm holding my daughter."
– Chance the Rapper

71. "The only way I could describe [fatherhood]...at the end of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas', you know how his heart grows, like, five times its size? Everything is full. It's just full all the time."
– Matt Damon

17 quotes from daughter to dad

You may have come to us as a daughter who wants to tell your dear father what a bright shining example he is to you and your life, that he's the best and wisest man you know, or just simply that he's the best dad in the world.

Here are some heartfelt father daughter quotes from you, a great daughter, to him, a great dad.

72. “Dear Daddy, no matter where I go in life, you’ll always be my number one man.”  
– Unknown

73. “Being a daddy’s girl is like having permanent armour for the rest of your life.”
– Marinela Reka

74. “In the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown.”
– Unknown

75. “It was my father who taught me to value myself.”
– Dawn French

76. “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

77. “Some people don’t believe in heroes but they haven’t met my dad.”
– Unknown

78. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano

79. “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
– Linda Poindexter

80. “I am a princess not because I have a prince, but because my father is a king.”
– Unknown

81. “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.”
– Unknown

82. “Nothing makes me feel stronger than knowing that I have a dad who’s got my back. I love you.”
– Unknown

83. “You have seen me at my worst, yet you think that I am the best. I love you, Dad.”
– Unknown

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. "My dad is awesome. But you know what they say, 'Like father like daughter.'"
– Unknown

88. “I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”
– Imelda Marcos

FAQs

Why are father daughter quotes important?

Not all of us a great with verbal communication. Sometimes we struggle to say how we feel. So whether's it's for a birthday card, Father's Day card, a graduation card, a speech, or any other scenario, father daughter quotes offer a chance to really express how we feel, particularly because they really do capture the special bond between a father and daughter.

There is a huge body of evidence to support the idea that giving a compliment, or expressing our love and admiration for someone, can have a hugely positive impact on their mental health.

How do I pick the best father daughter quotes?

Choosing the 'best' father daughter quote is something subjective. It depends on your relationship together. For example, if you've always had quite a goofy, playful, fun relationship, perhaps funny quotes are the way to go. Or maybe you've had a somewhat strained relationship and you want to show that despite your issues, your deep love has always been there.

It may be that you want to take inspiration from some of these quotes and adapt them, or even combine some of them!