50 Flower Quotes to Remind You to Smell The Roses

What makes flowers so beautiful? These flower quotes might help you answer that, or at least provide you with some flowery words for a card!

It could be the aroma, maybe the vibrant color, or the shape and delicacy of the petals. It might also be the resilience that a flower demonstrates in the face of weather and other adversities. I think its human nature to marvel how something so delicate and “weak” is so important in nature.

What’s your favorite flower?

There are so many reminders to life’s truths disguised as beautiful flowers; if people would only look. This includes the fact that flowers are fleeting and if you don’t “stop and smell the roses” you might miss your chance to.

Take a quick break from your busy day and enjoy these flower quotes about beauty, life lessons, joy, and even a little humor!

Also check out these cute pineapple quotes celebrating the queen of tropical fruits.

Beautiful flower quotes

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

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

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of garden quotes about the power of nature.

3. “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
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of sunflower quotes celebrating the power and beauty of this special plant.

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

5. “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

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

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

You might also like these rose quotes honoring our life, beauty and thorns.

Blooming flower quotes

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

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

10. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” — Zen Shin

11. “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

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

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

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

Flowers quotes on life lessons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flowers quotes to inspire you

24. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse

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

26. “Take time to smell the roses.” —Proverb

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

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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.”  —John Dewey

32. “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

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

Happy and joyful flower quotes

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

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

36. “In joy and in sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” — Unknown

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

38. “The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” —Leo Buscaglia

39. “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.” —John Lennon

40. “For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair”. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Funny flower quotes

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

42. “At my age flowers scare me.” —George Burns

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

44. “A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.” —Ruth Brown

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

46. “Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

48. “I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.” —Georgia O’Keeffe

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

50. “Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don’t understand the concept.” —Paul Westerberg

Did you enjoy these flower quotes?

In case you are still wondering what makes flowers so beautiful, the scientific answer has to do with pollination.  You see, nature has no regard for the fact that the human eye finds flowers pretty. According to evolutionary biologist, Claude DePamphilis, “The beauty of the flower is a byproduct of what it takes for the plant to attract pollinators.” 

This means that dandelions are less pretty since they spread their seeds, mostly, with the help of the wind. And the occasional dreamer of a human being, who might stop to make a wish. The prettier flowers need the help of flying insects to reproduce, so nature lures them to the flower with color and scent.

Maybe nature should get just a little more credit since humans also use the prettiest flowers to ensure they have a chance at reproduction…

Did you enjoy these flower quotes? What’s your favorite flower? Mine is the Gardenia, share yours in the comment section below!