56 Sunflower quotes of strength, positivity, and vibrance.

These cute sunflower quotes capture the radiance of the bloom along with its most admired qualities.

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Sunflower quotes that capture the bloom’s luminosity in more ways than one.

When you imagine a field of sunflowers, what do you notice? For one thing, the sun is shining. Sunflowers are at their biggest and brightest when the sun is out, and they track the sun as it moves across the sky.

Many sunflower quotes talk about the qualities of the flower itself, like its immense height (they can grow up to 15 feet), strong stem, thick petals, and — of course — how it follows the sun.

Other sunflower quotes take these qualities and turn them into metaphors, such as sunflower inspirational quotes, sunflower quotes about life, and more.

Choose your favorite sunflower quotes from history’s greats, and you’ll be able to take the flower’s greatness with you, whether the sun is out or not.

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Table of Contents:

Sunflower Quotes for Her, or Him, or Whomever You're Sunny and Sweet Oon

Sunflower Inspirational Quotes

Sunflower Baby Quotes

Sunflower Happy Birthday Quotes

Sunflower Quotes — Short

Sunflower Quotes for Friends

Sunflower Teacher Quotes

Sunflower quotes for her, or him, or whomever you're sunny and sweet on.

Step up to a sunflower. Do you see its sturdy stalk? Can you count its petals? The bright yellow bounces sunlight back at you, and its hue seems to brighten everything around it. It’s almost as though it were the sun’s multiplier. Thanks to this sunny disposition, sunflowers are a symbol of adoration, which is why there are so many sunflower love quotes.

Choose your favorite sunflower quotes for her, for him, or for whomever is bouncing light back into your life. Imagine these quotes in cards, letters, or even photo collages as gifts. It’s all easy to make in Adobe Express — no experience required.

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Sweetest of the sunflowers, yeah, you're the sun to me.”
Zach Bryan, "Sun to Me"
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.”

Richard Rohr

Use this quote at the start of a letter. Then, explain how your special someone taught you to “turn naturally to the light.” This sweet metaphor becomes even sweeter.

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
She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wheat.”

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sunflower quotes for her often compare beauty to the radiance of the yellow bloom.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou who gazest ever true and tender on the sun's revolving splendor.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Her smile put the sunflower to shame.”
Jerry Spinelli , Stargirl
His eyes were the color of gold, of sunflowers and butterscotch and lemons hanging heavy on their boughs.”

Jest Marissa Meyer

Sunflower quotes for him put the happiness that he radiates into words.

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

This message could be perfect for a surprise card or a quick text message.

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Sunflower inspirational quotes to embolden you.

The sunflower is exceptionally strong, with stocks growing up to 15 feet tall. Its vigor and vibrance have been recorded in sunflower inspirational quotes that leave you feeling just as strong.

Uplifting sunflower quotes look at the bloom in a figurative way, and some of them are didactic. What can we learn from the sunflower? What sunflower positive quotes hit home for you? Imagine what these quotes could do in inspirational posters or collages. Whether it’s sunny or not outside, you can continually draw off this flower’s unique energy.

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When I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”

Vladimir Nabokov

How could you depict this in a card or on a poster?

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…so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower.”
Bodhi Smith
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.”

Helen Keller

This famous Helen Keller quote is almost always shortened, skipping the last line. Once you add that final statement, though, the quote becomes instantly more relatable.

I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy.”
Jostein Gaarder
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.”

Robert Leighton

The metaphor behind this quote is powerful. There is light even when all you see is the overcast.

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

Uplifting sunflower quotes are often allegorical.

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Sunflower baby quotes for the new sunshine in your life.

Have you ever wondered when parents began dressing their children in sunflower costumes? The yellow petals adorn countless babies’ faces at photo studios, and school plays always have a sunflower role to cast.

Still, why sunflowers?

Like Stevie Wonder sang, “you are the sunshine of my life.” This is how parents feel about their children, and thus, the sunflower costume was born. Sunflower baby quotes are the sweetest sound bites to go with the resulting photo collages, cards, and posters.

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A sunflower for my sunflower. To brighten the dark October days you hate so much. Plant some more, and be safe in the knowledge a warm and bright summer awaits.”
Cecelia Ahern
In a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower. Thornless. Unwithering. Abundant in seeds.”

JaTawny M. Chatmon

This quote could go in a time capsule keepsake, like a collage or letter, to teach kids a valuable message when they find the baby sunflower photos later.

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

Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

There are certain sunflower quotes for daughters, like this one, that are perfect to use in photo keepsakes like collages and posters.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?”
Allen Ginsberg , Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Sunflowers in spring, they’re just like you / Sunflowers wipe away your tears / All your doubts and fears / You were born to fly, so high.”

Alice Peacock

Sunflower quotes for sons and daughters capture certain dreams we have for our kids, too.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or 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 hollyhock.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.”

French Proverb

This is such a short quote that it could be easy to share with a photo in an Instagram story or on a banner hung for a birthday.

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
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Sunflower happy birthday quotes that stir celebration.

Sunflowers are also a symbol of life experiences yet to come. With their eyes forever on the present source of light, this golden bloom is seen in sunflower “happy birthday” quotes as a symbol of the now and tomorrow, leaving the past where it belongs.

These famous sunflower quotes are proof that our world is filled with light. These messages are perfect for birthday cards, especially for milestone birthdays.

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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

What better message could there be for a birthday card than this one?

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine.”

Kay Kay Menon

This popular Indian actor revealed this with an air of irony. If you know anyone whose parents have a childhood sunflower photo buried somewhere, get a copy now and blow it up in a poster for fun.

We're golden sunflowers inside, blessed by our own seed and hairy naked accomplishment, bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset...”
Allen Ginsburg, "Sunflower Sutra"
Like sunflowers, galaxies, and fingerprints, your life is an intricately designed spiral.”
Kristen Lee
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”

John Harrigan

Even if it’s not specifically about sunflowers, you can use sunflowers’ distinctive positivity in images around this quote to make a gift collage, card, or poster.

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

Maybe this is why babies are often dressed as sunflowers, after all.

Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
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Sunflower quotes — short when space is limited.

Whether you’re looking for the perfect quotes for banners, or sunflower quotes for Instagram, or meaningful quotes for cards, these short sunflower quotes get right to the point. In few words, you can evoke sunflowers’ beauty and qualities in a meaningful way.

Take your pick of the following sunflower quotes, short and Instagrammable, and have fun sharing them in any kind of project.

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A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.”

Corina Abulahm-Negura

Since the sunflower was named after the sun in nearly every language, this simile is spot-on.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.”

Martin Firrell

What do you suppose the innovative British artist meant by this?

Standing among the sunflowers, I craved divinity.”
Michael Paterniti
Like a sunflower that follows every movement of the sun, so I turn towards you, to follow you, my God.”
John of the Cross
Yellow is my favorite summer color — it makes me feel like a sunflower.”
Bria Viniate
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.”

William Cullen Bryant

Finally, you have a great quote for fall that talks about something other than pumpkin spice.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Take your pick of Van Gogh sunflower paintings to accompany this quote in a poster or on a card.

I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple.”
Maude (Ruth Gordon), Harold and Maude
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Sunflower quotes for friends to send a little sunshine their way.

Sending sunflower quotes for friends in cards, Instagram stories, and quick texts can be an expression of encouragement or admiration. This collection has lots of sunflower quotes about life, too, because the flower is a powerful symbol for the advice some friends need to hear.

Take your pick of the quotes that instantly make you think of someone near and dear. You’ll be enkindle a little sunshine for every friend you reach out to.

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

Jean Paul

There are no better sunflower quotes for friends than this one.

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
Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower...Sunflower meditation...You can see the whole universe in a flower.”
Shunryu Suzuki
True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.”

Marie Williams Johnstone

This could be the perfect message in a card for a friend who lives far way.

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

J.R. Rim

How could you use this encouraging sunflower quote for a friend who needs it?

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
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

This quote from Van Gogh says, “be unapologetically enthusiastic.” Use this quote to encourage a friend who’s discovered a new passion.

We’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment.”
Allen Ginsberg
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Sunflower teacher quotes to show gratitude, admiration, and more.

A sunflower is an especially happy bloom, which is why sunflower teacher quotes are great for cards or letters to educators.

The sunflower is also a symbol of strength and growth, which every teacher hopes students get from classes. Choose your favorite quotes that make you think of specific teachers, even those you had years ago, and consider how many ways you can share them.

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Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. Like a field of sunflowers.”
Fiona Valpy
And here the sunflower of the spring burns bright in the morning's beam.”

Ebenezer Elliott

A little rhyme makes this the perfect message for a card.

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.”
Thomas Bulfinch
She is a sunflower, she brings hope to people.”

Avijeet Das

Does this make you think of a specific teacher?

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.”
Chris (Helen Mirren), Calendar Girls
Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.”

Vera Nazarian

If a great teacher is the sunflower, then all the knowledge that exists is like the blazing light of the sun. It’s the teacher you look to, not the sun itself.

They’re in bloom because they’ve found where they belong.”
Mark Sippings
The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness.”

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you see what Murat Ildan meant, this could be a perfect quote to use in a card at the end of the school year.

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Tips to use sunflower quotes in inventive places.

Sunflowers are symbols of strength, resilience, and positivity. It’s common to see them in social posts, not to mention on summer greeting cards and inspirational posters.

Where else could you use sunflower quotes, though, if you really wanted to share them?

Consider:

You could make a collage filled entirely with sunflower quotes, too. Why not? It’s all easy in Adobe Express.

Exercise: which life lesson can the sunflower teach you?

The sunflower is said to teach life lessons because of its unique qualities. These lessons each appear in sunflower quotes from this collection.

If you have favorite quotes that speak to these sunflower-taught lessons, then pair them with images to see what you can make.

These are the lessons sunflowers teach:

  1. Stand tall proud like a sunflower
  2. Always find the sun
  3. Take advantage of your strengths
  4. Even if you aren’t the source of light, you can reflect it to the world around you
  5. Appreciate every detail of who you are, how you’re made, and what you can do

Adobe Express can help.

Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite sunflower quotes to work. If you want to use sunflower quotes in cards, letters, posters, banners, photo collages, flyers, Instagram posts, 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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