72 Flower quotes for messages with a flourish.

Beautiful flower quotes are as varied as flowers themselves.

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The best flower quotes for every topic, every season, and every taste.

With over 400,000 different species, flowers grow in every imaginable color and expression. There are flowers so delicate that they shrivel at our touch. There are others so strong that they grow 15 feet tall.

History’s artists, poets, leaders, thinkers, and personalities have left a legacy of flower quotes that reflect how inspiring this world can be. With how varied flowers are, flower quotes are just as diverse.

Peruse these flower quotes and you’ll find symbolism, metaphors, and observations. Think of everything you can do with these quotes in letters to friends, inspirational collages, event banners, and more. Remember — it’s all easy in Adobe Express, no experience required.

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Table of Contents:

Short and Sweet Flower Quotes

Inspirational Flower Quotes

Beautiful Flower Quotes

Flower Love Quotes

Flower Blooming Quotes

Funny Flower Quotes

Flower quotes — short and honeysuckle-sweet.

There’s a subgroup of flower quotes so short that you can fit them onto Instagram stories, event banners, and just about anywhere else. Some of them focus on the beauty of flowers, and others pull off witty metaphors in just a few words.

Choose your favorite Instagram flower quotes or short quotes for banners, cards, and more. These are so easy to memorize that you could share some in conversation, too.

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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

Audrey Hepburn

Half the fun of flower quotes is the people behind them. Hepburn was as photogenic as a flower, herself, so you’re working with beauty times two.

I must have flowers, always, and always.”

Claude Monet

Two artists who definitely loved flowers were Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”
John Harrigan
Flowers don’t tell, they show.”
Stephanie Skeem
The earth laughs in flowers.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What visuals would you put on a poster to accompany this quote?

All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”
Indian Proverb
Where flowers bloom so does hope.”

Lady Bird Johnson

This famous quote was made during a speech at Yale University in 1967. The context of the era adds another layer to Lady Bird Johnson’s message.

Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”

Shannon Mullen

This is the kind of short flower quote that’s perfect for an Instagram post.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
Gerard de Nerval
A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
Oscar Wilde
Every flower blooms in its own time.”

Ken Petti

A letter of encouragement to someone working hard toward a goal could open with this quote.

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Inspirational flower quotes to leave you fresh as a daisy.

Flowers are a natural source of inspiration, but not only because they’re beautiful. The lotus grows in dark places in spite of its surroundings. The rose combines beauty with self-defense. The sunflower finds the light and follows it dawn ‘til dusk. These qualities and more have taken root in inspirational flower quotes.

Whether you’re searching for self-love flower quotes for private inspiration or flower-powered insights to share with friends and family in cards, this handpicked collection will motivate and encourage in colorful ways.

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

There’s hardly a better quote than this one to use in cards and posters to say, “you do you.”

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

Alexander Den Heijer

What are you short on inspiration for? Instead of trying to rekindle internal motivation, fix something in your environment. It might not be you, after all.

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
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
Flowers whisper, ‘beauty’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.”

Dr. SunWolf

Self-love flower quotes can touch on topics like aging, too.

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

Steve Maraboli

Do you focus on the negative or on the positive in your environment?

Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.”
Bryant McGill
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
Zen Shin
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.”

Robert Leighton

Read these sunflower quotes for even more metaphors around this strong and brilliant bloom.

Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
Luther Burbank
A weed is but an unloved flower.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Perception can change everything. Self-love flower quotes like this one make for memorable posters and cards.

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Beautiful flower quotes that put winsomeness into words.

For each unique and beautiful flower, there are quotes that have captured its allure. Flowers are meant to be admired. In fact, they were designed for it. Bees, butterflies, and birds are attracted to them as part of nature’s design. Humankind is attracted to them for their exquisite structure, color, and variety.

With your pick of these aesthetic flower quotes, life’s beauty will continually come up roses.

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Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
Luther Burbank
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities in the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.”

Unattributed

If you share this sentiment, why not use this quote in a fun social post?

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

Henri Matisse

Both literally and figuratively, this is a reminder to look for beauty around us.

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
The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.”

Ecouchard Le Brun

This metaphor makes both flowers and butterflies seem all the more beautiful.

Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.”
Edwin Curran
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What images could go with this message on a flyer or poster?

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.”

Chinese Proverb

Beauty can be perceived by the other senses, too.

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”
Clare Ansberry
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”
Buddha
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.”

Luther Burbank

There’s no better excuse to add some flowers to your home or office.

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Flower love quotes for when you’re walking the primrose path.

When we walk the primrose path in life, it means venturing down a path of little resistance with frequent sources of pleasure along the way. It’s a phrase often used to refer to someone who prefers pleasure over achievement and discipline. However, there are times during a romantic relationship when the primrose path opens up of its own accord.

If you’re walking the primrose path with someone special, consider these flower love quotes. Play with them in cards, letters, and every other imaginable project.

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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.”

Max Muller

At first glance, this quote says, “I can’t live without you.” If you think about it, though, this quote also says, “you help me become my best self.”

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
Love is flower-like; friendship is like a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Combine flower-like love and sheltering friendship, and you have a great relationship.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
John Lennon
The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.”

Carole Radziwill

Would you say your relationship has one person who’s the “flower” while the other is the “gardener?” Or do those roles change over time?

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

Alfred Tennyson

This is one of the most famous flower love quotes, and it’s to see why.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love — the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.”
Dorothea Dix
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
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
D.H. Lawrence
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

Flower quotes for her can capture someone blooming into happiness or into her best self.

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
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Sometimes, the greatest act of love is to let someone bloom into whomever they’re meant to be.

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Flower blooming quotes for a big reveal.

The act of blooming is the climax of a flower’s life. We never see its roots grow. After a stem thickens or a vine climbs, a bud is finally formed. Then, seemingly without rhyme or reason, flowers bloom in full color and fragrance. These flower blooming quotes capture that glory.

Of course, flower blooming quotes aren’t just to recognize the beauty of real flowers. They can also be a natural pick-me-up or inspiration.

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If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.”

French Proverb

Not all flower blooming quotes are strictly about flowers. Use this timeless metaphor in a card or on a poster.

The first wildflower of the year is like land after sea.”

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The arrival of springtime is only felt when the first blooms are seen.

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
What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower.”

Roland R. Kemler

How many wildflower quotes could you use in a photo collage with pictures of every wild bloom you encounter?

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.”
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As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.”

Buddha

Like sunflowers’ height and roses’ thorns, lotus flower quotes are inspired by the unique qualities of the flower that blooms out of dark depths no other flower can.

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

Sheryl Crow

Add this sound bite to your wildflower quotes collage, too.

Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.”
Ellen Everett
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.”

Gertrude S. Wister

Spring flower quotes capture more than the beauty of new blooms. They capture the feeling of relief and revelry when we see the first flowers open.

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.”
Truman Capote
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Funny flower quotes for a dash flowery banter.

Humor takes an unexpected look at things we think we know — even flowers. These cute flower quotes cover the gamut from jokes about giving flowers to bait-and-switch plays on word.

Choose your favorite funny flower quotes and imagine what you could do with them in Instagram stories, cards, flyers, and more.

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Flowers didn't ask to be flowers, and I didn't ask to be me.”
Kurt Vonnegut
You’d get a lot more work done if you didn’t stop and smell the roses so often.”

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Do you know someone whose relaxed way of life you could take a jab at?

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.”
Brian Clough
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.”

Doug Larson

This would give a new meaning to “flowery language.”

Every flower must grow through dirt.”
Laurie Jean Sennott
I saw this flower and thought of you because it’s pretty and…well, I don’t really like it, but I thought you might like it, ‘cause you’re pretty.”
Shrek
If someone throws a stone at you, throw a flower at them. But remember to throw the flowerpot with it.”
Minions
If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: ‘I'm cheap.’”

Delta Burke

If you were looking for funny flower quotes for a Valentine’s Day card to send with a single rose, this one isn’t it.

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.”
Bert Williams
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.”

Alan Bennett

Send this quote to someone who takes flower arranging way too seriously.

Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.”
Stephen Richards
Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Can a quote be funny and beautiful at the same time? Robert A. Heinlein says it can.

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Tips to sow the seeds of all the flower quotes you plant.

In addition to the flower quotes above, you can mix in flower idioms when making cards, posters, flyers, and other creative projects.

How many of these flower-related idioms did you already know?

Exercise: keep the flower quotes going all year.

As Elizabeth Lawrence once said, “the garden year has no beginning and no end.” Flower quotes, too, are not only for springtime.

Look through your top-choice flower quotes, and you’ll quick see which ones serve as:

Once you find flower quotes fit for every season, you can use them cleverly in projects no matter the time of year.

Adobe Express can help.

Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite flower quotes to work. If you want to use flower quotes in cards, letters, posters, banners, photo collages, flyers, or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.

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