Who knew that bright and beautiful flowers could inspire so much wisdom? From ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day celebs, these 100 quotes about flowers offer us an array of unique perspectives on life and living.

Some insights are funny and lighthearted, and some are heartbreaking and poignant. So, let’s take a stroll through the vibrant world of floral quotes and discover what each one reveals!

  1. The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. –Lester Cole
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. -John Lennon
  5. 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
  6. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. –Audrey Hepburn
  7. Every flower withers. What matters is how proudly it stood before the sun. -Marty Rubin
  8. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. –Max  
  9. Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful. -Michele Farabee
  10. Every flower must grow through dirt. –Laurie Jean Sennott
  11. She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free. -Unknown
  12. Life is the flower for which love is the honey. –Victor Hugo
  13. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. -Frances Hodgson Burnett
  14. Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, and fall. -Dr. SunWolf
  15. Every flower blooms in its own time. –Ken Petti
  16. Be honest, be nice, and be a flower, not a weed. -Aaron Neville
  17. Learn from flowers – always angle towards the sun. -Maureen Joyce Connolly
  18. The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days. –Robert Leighton
  19. Where flowers bloom, so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson
  20. If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. – Claudia Adrienne Grandi
  21. We are all golden sunflowers inside. -Allen Ginsberg
  22. Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would. –E.V.
  23. Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  24. In the garden of love, flowers don’t die. -Nitya Prakash
  25. Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. – Luther Burbank
  26. True love is like little roses, sweet, and fragrant in small doses. -Ana Claudia Antunes
  27. Love is like a beautiful flower that I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. –Helen Keller
  28. Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound. -Edwin Curran
  29. Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. –Steve Maraboli
  30. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. -Gerard De Nerval
  31. Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world. –Bryant McGill
  32. Flowers are the remnants of paradise on earth. -John of Kronstadt
  33. One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve. -Henry David Thoreau
  34. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. –Buddha
  35. Life is like a bud, it always dreams to bloom like a flower. -Debasish Mridha
  36. Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful. -Michele Farabee
  37. 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
  38. If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change. -Buddha
  39. Live simple, love well and take time to smell the flowers along the way. -Mark Twain
  40. Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right. –Stephen Richards
  41. May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. -Nhat Hanh
  42. Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. –Thomas Tusser
  43. Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  44. Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. –Jim Carrey
  45. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. –Audrey Hepburn
  46. Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots. –Shannon Mullen
  47. Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. –John Harrigan
  48. A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome. –Matshona Dhliwayo
  49. She sprouted love like flowers and grew a garden in her mind. –Erin Hanson
  50. 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
  51. Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots. -Shannon Mullen
  52. If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it. –Matshona Dhliwayo
  53. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love. –Max Muller
  54. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. –Frances Hodgson Burnett
  55. What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower! –Roland R. Kemler
  56. Love is flower-like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  57. I’d rather wear flowers in my hair than diamonds around my neck. -Unknown
  58. Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I. –Unknown
  59. Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. –Dr. SunWolf
  60. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. –Ralph Waldo Emmerson
  61. The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. –Carole Radziwill
  62. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. -Margaret Atwood
  63. The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity. –Dorothea Dix
  64. Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change color, you cannot help treasuring them. -Munia Khan
  65. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. –Henri Matisse
  66. Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots. -Shannon Mullen
  67. Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes. –Clare Ansberry
  68. Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots. -Shannon Mullen
  69. Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  70. A flower blossoms for its own joy. -Oscar Wilde
  71. When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. -Alexander Den Heijer
  72. What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower! –Roland R. Kemler
  73. Every flower must grow through dirt. -Laurie Jean Sennott
  74. All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. -Indian Proverb
  75. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. –Therese of Lisieux
  76. I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  77. Flowers grow out of dark moments. -Corita Kent
  78. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. -Audrey Hepburn
  79. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. -Gerard De Nerval
  80. Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. -John Harrigan
  81. I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. -Herbert Rappaport
  82. Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  83. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. -Henri Matisse
  84. Flowers don’t tell, they show. -Stephanie Skeem
  85. 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
  86. Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right. -Stephen Richards
  87. What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower! -Roland R. Kemler
  88. Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. –John Harrigan
  89. Lilies bloom when we laugh together. -Suyasha Subedi
  90. 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 in effect. –Terri Guillemets
  91. I must have flowers, always, and always. -Claude Monet
  92. Politeness is the flower of humanity. –Joseph Joubert
  93. Every flower blooms in its own time. -Ken Petti
  94. All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. –Indian Proverb
  95. When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers. -Sanober Khan
  96. 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
  97. When kissing flowers, tulips are better than one. –Unknown
  98. Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. -Steve Maraboli
  99. Every flower blooms in its own time. –Ken Petti
  100. The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. –Lester Cole

From the wise words of authors, poets, and philosophers, we’ve gathered 100 eloquent quotes about flowers, each offering its own unique perspective on the delicate beauty of nature’s wonders.

Although our compilation has come to an end, we have only begun to scratch the surface when it comes to quotes that pay homage to flowers and explain their significance – they truly can unite us in powerful ways through their symbolism.

After all, you don’t need words when a rose says it all.

My favorite from these flower quotes is the one by Shannon Mullen “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots”. It reminds me that the size of something or someone does not determine how much strength or impact they have.

No matter how small you may feel, never underestimate your ability to push through the storms of life or the impact you can make when you have the courage to overcome the obstacles thrown at you.

Which one was your favorite flower quote from above? Let me know in the comments below!

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