124+ Best Sunflower Quotes to Brighten Up Your Day

Each of the following positive sunflower quotes is overflowing with wisdom, life lessons, and knowledge. All you need is a couple of minutes out of your day, and you can make different or better choices depending on what you learn.

Reading short quotes about sunflower can help you change your perspective. They encompass nearly every aspect that makes up our day-to-day lives.

Sunflowers symbolize happiness, optimism, adoration, loyalty and longevity. Happiest sunflower quotes will inspire and brighten up your day.

Thanks to all the distractions around us today, it’s easy to lose focus of what really matters in our lives. Sometimes all we need a reminder. To help you make the most of your life, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking sunflower quotes:

Cute Sunflower Quotes

If I were a flower… I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds. Pam Stewart

Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there. J.R. Rim

Turn your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you. Maori Proverb

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do. Helen Keller

Stand tall and face the sun. Unknown

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

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

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

cute sunflower quotes

I can’t feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can’t feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. Miranda Kerr

Advice from a sunflower. Be bright sunny and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight.

Ah! sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime, Where the traveler’s journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves and aspire; Where my sunflower wishes to go. William Blake

A sunflower poem: The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and when he warm returns. Points her enamor’d bosom to his ray. James Thomson

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

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers Martin Firrel

Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky. Unknown

We’re all golden sunflowers inside. Allen Ginsberg

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

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Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace. Old French Proverb

A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns Corina Abdulahm

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. Henry Ward Beecher

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.   Marie Williams Johnstone

I want to be like a sunflower so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight. Unknown

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

Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets. Edna Ferber

Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.   J.R. Rim

If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevensen

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. Jean Paul

Inspirational Sunflower Quotes

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood. William Cullen Bryant

Sunflowers are like people to me. Joan Mitchell

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers. Martin Firrell

The head of all flower heads is one flower; the sunflower in the sky, that gives the others vivid color stemming from the inside. Curtis Tyrone Jones

All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. Miranda Kerr

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair. Susan Polis Schutz

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

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

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light. Eugenio Montale

Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her? Simone Elkeles

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. Jean Paul Richter

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

inspirational sunflower quotes

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers. Vincent Van Gogh

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy. Thomas Bulfinch

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

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs. Jandy Nelson

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

Her smile put the sunflower to shame. Jerry Spinelli

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

She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people. Avijeet Das

Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. ‘Like a field of sunflowers. Fiona Valpy

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower. Vera Nazarian

I think it’s something to do with the nurturing side of the psyche; tying up a sunflower or whatever and helping it grow, it is just some kind of core human experience. Joe Lycett

A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower. Jeanne Desy

In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun’s rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you every day I wake up and it is going to do that forever. Sheila Carey

Beautiful Sunflower Quotes

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine. Kay Kay Menon

The sunflower is mine, in a way. Vincent van Gogh

Be a Sunflower in a field of roses. T.F. Fox

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time. Marie Williams Johnstone

Sunflowers show us the beauty of staying connected with all that nourishes and sustains us. Unknown

Despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives sunflowers. Rupi Kaur

And here the sunflower of the spring burns bright in the morning’s beam. Ebenezer Elliott

I love you more than all the bees in a Sunflower field. H.C.

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

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gérard de Nerval

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers. Joe Hill

beautiful sunflower quotes

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Samuel Johnson

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 woman too. Unknown

The butterfly is a flying flower,The flower a tethered butterfly. Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

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

Every flower blooms at a different pace. Suzy Kassem

Like a single sunbeam on a warm summer day, there is an exuberance and brilliance in a sunflower. Unknown

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

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns? Allen Ginsberg

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

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

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun. Patricia Briggs

Hidden inside every flower are seeds of imagination, destiny and future dreams. Sondra Faye

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special. Ina Garten

Deep Sunflower Quotes About Life

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. Khaled Hosseini

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. Rabindranath Tagore

Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.

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

Tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun. The Beatles, I’ll Follow The Sun

A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower. Jeanne Desy

I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. The Temptations

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I’d never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better. Halle Berry

deep sunflower quotes

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. Richard Rohr

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. Henry Ward Beecher

I will admit you are the finest if not the loveliest rose in the garden. But you see, my dear, I was looking for a sunflower. Richelle E. Goodrich

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Mary Oliver

When a flower and a child come together, it makes two flowers or two children because every child is a flower and every flower is a child! Mehmet Murat ildan

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D’Angelo

And to this day I love endless landscapes, big horizons, sunflowers, and narcissi. Gisela Hausmann

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. Miranda Kerr

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

Sunflowers know the secret of life is to follow the sun. Clifford Thurlow

Which makes it ironic my favorite flower isn’t even indigenous to the British Isles, let alone Yorkshire. I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me, that’s because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that’s such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life. Tim Firth

Short Sunflower Quotes

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse … I am painting big sunflowers. Vincent Van Gogh

If all your dreams have broken and gone, if you feel isolated in your own private world, go out this minute and buy a sunflower. Clifford Thurlow

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… Susan Polis Schutz

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

Let a hundred flowers bloom. Mao Zedong

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James Matthew Barrie

look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day…it’s as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun. Bodhi Smith

short sunflower quotes

Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace. French Proverb

There are not too many fables about man’s misuse of sunflower seeds. Richard Brautigan

So, I’m off to the market to buy a few sunflowers to place in a vase on my kitchen table. Have a beautiful day! Olivia Dunn

Some of us believe that when it is dark and the Sun is hiding, the sunflowers turn to each other, and energize and strengthen each other. This faith is beautiful. Neena Verma

Always look at the brighter side of life, just like the sunflower, which looks upon the sun, not the dark clouds. Unknown

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag  it looked hand-painted, and at last, my eyes fell into hers. I said, Thanks for the card. Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off. Jerry Spinelli

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God’s blessing, but constant in looking to Him. Jean Paul

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

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. Henry Ward Beecher

Sunflower Captions For Instagram

The lovely sunflower gave me beautiful kisses

Let your joy burst forth, like flowers in the spring.

All you need is love and sunflowers

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

Shine bright like a sunflower

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

Every good day deserves a sunflower!

I wish the first day of spring was actually the last day of winter.

A beautiful sunflower for a beautiful you

Spread seeds of happiness.

Sunflowers are my zen

We’re all golden sunflowers inside.

Sunflowers bring joy to all!

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Awesome sunset and awesome sunflowers

Does she realize she looks like a sunflower?

Sunflowers always remind me of you