I think that all flowers are beautiful, from a cultured bloom from a greenhouse to a field of wildflowers. Flowers make your day just a little brighter. Flowers add color and joy, whether you see them in a bouquet, on a hike, or in your garden. We use them to convey messages of love and support. We enjoy their beauty and fragrance, and growing them in our gardens helps us embrace nature and can even improve our mental health. “Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands,” reads one Japanese proverb.

Flowers are a gift to this earth. As Gerard De Nerval once said, “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” They paint contrasting colors along the ground and bring joy to many. Their elegance and delicate touches have us all in awe and exhilaration. This is often why flowers are seen as loving gifts for the special people in our lives, and the reaction of the person receiving the flowers is priceless.

To celebrate the beauty flowers graciously bring to our lives, we can create flower art, learn the symbolism of flowers or read quotes about flowers. Instead of picking flowers, pick flower quotes to share with friends and loved ones. Are you searching for the best flower quotes and flower captions? This list has over one hundred beautiful flower sayings and inspirational floral quotes to lift your mood and put a smile on your face.

100 Inspirational Flower Quotes

Top 10 Flower Quotes

“You’ve got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you’ve got to blossom where you’re planted.” – Cory Booker

“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda

“When you bloom like a blossom, you must help other flower buds to bloom too.” – Munia Khan

“When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” – William Wordsworth

“What a strange thing! To be alive, beneath cherry blossoms.” – Kobayashi Issa

“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” – Roland R. Kemler

“We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.”

“Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” – Stephen Richards

Short Flower Quotes

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“That floral feeling.”

“Thanks a bunch!”

“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” – Joseph Joubert

“Plant one on me!”

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.” – Heinrich Heine

“Let’s put our tulips together.”

“Let your dreams blossom.”

“I think you’re dandy, and I’m not lion!”

“I think of you everydaisy.”

“I must have flowers, always, and always.” – Claude Monet

“I love you bunches.”

“Flowers preach to us if we will hear.” – Christina Rossetti

“Flowers grow out of dark moments.” – Corita Kent

“Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.”

“Flowers don’t tell; they show.” – Stephanie Skeem

“Every flower must grow through dirt.” – Laurie Jean Sennott

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval

“Every flower blooms in its own time.” – Ken Petti

“The sunflower is mine, in a way.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Sunflowers are like people to me.” – Joan Mitchell

“A flower is a smile from heaven.”

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde

“A weed is but an unloved flower.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“A sunflower teaches us so much about love.” – Samrah Ahmad

“Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Bloom where you are planted.”

“Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.” – Aaron Neville

“Flowers are like friends; they bring colour to your world.”

“At my age flowers scare me.” – George Burns

“Do something today that will encourage you to blossom.”

“A little flower that blooms in May” – Sam Cooke

“Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.” – Japanese Proverb

“I love to see people blossom.” – Roger Rees

“If friends were flowers, I’d pick you.”

“Live on coffee and flowers.”

“Live life in full bloom.”

“Let a hundred flowers bloom.” – Mao Zedong

“She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free.”

“The flower fades that is not looked upon.” – Edward Counsel

“The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” – S. Brown

“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The sunflower is mine, in a way.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“We are all golden sunflowers inside.” – Allen Ginsberg

“Tomorrow it may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” – The Beatles

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn

“To me, flowers are happiness.” – Stefano Gabbana

“Tiger lilies never change their stripes.” – Darren Tisdale

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” – A.A. Milne

“We’re all golden sunflowers inside.” – Allen Ginsberg

“What’s up buttercup?”

“What in carnation?”

“Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!” – Lady Bird Johnson

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“When kissing flowers, tulips are better than one.”

“You’re my best bud.”

“You grow girl.”

“I be-leaf in you.”

“Happiness blooms from within.”

“Always rooting for you.”

“Oopsie daisy!”

“Once and flor-al!”

“My love for you blossoms every day.”

Funny Flower Quotes

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“I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.”

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees” – Pablo Neruda

“I put flower buds in a lot of little bottles around the house so I can see the blossoms open everywhere.” – James Patterson

“I love to smell flowers in the dark … You get hold of their soul then.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” – Ruth Stout

“I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.” – Christine and the Queens

“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” – Herbert Rappaport

“the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be” – Dennis Potter

“Soldiers falling fast, Battle of white and scarlet, Blossoms on the ground” – David Kudler

Inspirational Flower Quotes

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“I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.” – Sara Stein

“I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.” – D. Antoinette Foy

“I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.” – George Eliot

“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.” – William Wordsworth

“He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.” – Mary Howitt

“Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan

“The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.” – Ecouchard Le Brun

“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.” – Jeremy Bentham

“Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.”

“Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.” – Alice Oswald

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” – Reginald Heber

“Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.” – Maria Konopnicka

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.” – Arundhati Roy

“She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.” – Erin Hanson

“Sad bright eyes Are cherry blossoms Your true love Will never wake up” – Communique

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” – William Shakespeare

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” – Iris Murdoch

“Pedal to the metal.”

“Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.” – Bryant McGill

“May your days be bright and beautiful like the flower buds of May.”

“May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.” – Shantideva

“May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.” – Nhat Hanh

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lotus Flower Quotes

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“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud

“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” – Shannon Mullen

“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” – Luther Burbank

“Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” – Steve Maraboli

“Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.” – Brian Clough

“Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke

“Daisy me rollin’.”

“Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April.” – Monty Don

Rose Flower Quotes

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“You look beautiful as a sunflower and charming as a rose.” – Avijeet Das

“What a lovely thing a rose is!” – Arthur Conan Doyle

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.” – Henry David Thoreau

“True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” – Ana Claudia Antunes

“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.” – Ovid

“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” – Dorothea Dix

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Take time to smell the roses.” – Proverb

“Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“No rose without a thorn.” – French Proverb

“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.” – Bret Michaels

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot

“it’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: ‘I’m cheap!” – Delta Burke

“If you really screw up, send roses.” – Letitia Baldrige

“If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” – Isaac Hayes

“If the rose is beautiful flower, it is also because it opens itself.” – Charles De Leusse

“If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” – St Therese of Lisieux

“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” – Emma Goldman

“I named all my children after flowers. There’s Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.” – Bert Williams

“But he that dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose.” – Anne Bronte

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” – Ben Hogan

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

“A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn.” – Rumi

“A rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein

“A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” – Miranda Kerr

“A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows.” – Rob Cella

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.” – Chinese Proverb

“The beauty of life is in each precious moment! Stop and smell the roses”

Blooming Flower Quotes

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“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” – Neltje Blanchan

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Between our two lives, there is also the life of the cherry blossom” – Matsuo Basho

“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” – E. Y. Harburg

“And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze, and so the blossoms fall, and so my days.” – Onitsura

“Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”

“Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” – Indian Proverb

“After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.” – Christian Dior

“A world of grief and pain, flowers bloom – even then.” – Kobayashi Issa

“The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.” – Carole Radziwill

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” – Honore de Balzac

“The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” – Thomas Malory

“The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.” – Lester Cole

“The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” – Gertrude S. Wister

“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.” – William Wordsworth

“The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” – Robert Leighton

Sunflower Quotes

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“The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.” – Thomas Bulfinch

“I plant sunflowers and get back daily joy.” – Nadine Locke

“I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate.” – Halle Berry

“A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.” – Corina Abdulahm-Negura

“The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.” – Martin Firrell

“Restless sunflower; cease to move.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun.” – Remez Sasson

“Never look directly at the sun, instead look at the sunflower.” – Vera Nazarian

Wildflower Quotes

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“Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.” – Melody Lee

“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.” – Rumi

“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once if love gives a man eyes.” – James Russell Lowell

“One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.” – Susan Wittig Albert

“One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve.” – Henry David Thoreau

“No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” – Sheryl Crow

“Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” – E.V.

Flower Quotes About Life

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“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” – Victor Hugo

“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” – Terri Guillemets

“Autumn had arrived, the last blossom whispered, let me stay awhile.” – Meeta Ahluwalia

“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”” – Buddha

“These stars of earth, these golden flowers.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them” – Henri Matisse

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.” – Plutarch

“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” – Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” – Susan Polis Schutz

“Learn to spread joy and happiness like Spring Blossoms.” – Purvi Raniga

“Just living is not enough…one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“Joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.” – Lou Rawls

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood

“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” – Okakura Kakuzo

“If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” – Robert Brault

Flower Quotes About Love

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“Good friends are like beautiful flowers in the garden of life.” – Katrina Mayer

“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” – Clare Ansberry

“From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall” – Matsuo Basho

“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” – Dr. SunWolf

“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.” – John Ruskin

“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” – Jim Carrey

“Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” – Edwin Curran

“If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.” – Audra Foveo

“If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.” – Alan Bennett

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.” – Georgia O’Keefe.

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” – Buddha

“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.” – Doug Larson

“If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder

“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Adrienne Grandi

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder

“Loveliest of trees the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough” – A.E. Housman

“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon

“Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller

“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Flowers make life better, don’t they?

When you think about all of these ways that flowers impact our lives, it’s no wonder that so many people have been inspired to write about them.

So whether you are just giving someone a bouquet of their favorite flowers and are looking for a flower quote for the card or a flower saying to inspire, you should find something here.

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