Sunflower quotes to fill your life with cheerfulness and joy like a big sunflower field.
The sunflower is so majestic and beautiful, and with its cheery yellow petals, it looks like the sun. It would be a good idea to model our life, behavior and attitude after it.
We need to put more sunshine, happiness, and smiling into our life, irrespective of the kind of life we are currently living.
If we display a positive attitude, and strive to feel happy, we will radiate these same emotions to the people around us, creating a more beautiful world.
When times are tough and when you face obstacles, do not let them turn your head away from the sun. Keep looking at the bright side of life.
Don’t focus on the bad. Instead, stay focused on the positive things in your life, as the sunflower keeps its face turned toward the sun.
It would be a good idea to write a few sunflower quotes on a piece of paper and carry it in your pocket or on your phone. Read them whenever you feel the need for some sunshine in your life and to brighten your day.
Below, you will find inspirational sunflower quotes that will bring positivity into your life.
Inspirational Sunflower Quotes
“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.”
“True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.”
“The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.”
“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.”
“The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.”
“Wherever the sun goes / The sunflower will follow / Through all of the pain / And all of the sorrow.”
“Sunflowers in spring, they’re just like you / Sunflower wipe away your tears / All your doubts and fears / You were born to fly, so high.”
Beautiful Quotes About Sunflowers
“If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.”
“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.”
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“We’re all golden sunflowers inside.”
“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.”
Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun. – Remez SassonClick to Post“Light-enchanted sunflower, thou who gazest ever true and tender On the sun’s revolving splendour.”
“Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.”
“Fame is the scentless sunflower with gaudy crown of gold, but friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
Sunflower Quotes for Happiness
“The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.”
“A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower.”
“Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.”
“Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?”
“Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.”
“And here the sunflower of the spring burns bright in the morning’s beam.”
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“A flower needs sunlight to grow and develop. Learning is like sunshine to us, helping us grow and develop.”
“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.”
“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.”
Sunflower Quotes for Joy
Sunflower quotes that can bring joy and happiness to your life.
“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.”
“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”
“Her smile put the sunflower to shame.”
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”
“Yellow is my favorite summer color – it makes me feel like a sunflower.”
“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.”
“Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun’s noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix’d on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.”
“Look at the sunny side of everything.”
Short Sunflower Quotes
“And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.”
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”
“The sunflower is mine, in a way.”
“You look beautiful as a sunflower and charming as a rose.”
“Let a hundred flowers bloom.”
“The sun always shines above the clouds.”
“Make it like a sunflower.”
Facts About Sunflowers
They are native to the American continent. Sunflowers were cultivated in North America as far back as 3000 B.C.E. They were used for food, medicine, dye and oil. They were brought to the rest of the world by Spanish conquistadors in the 1500s.
Sunflowers display an interesting behavior. The young blossoms will face east in the morning and follow the sun across the sky. When the flowers get heavy with seeds, the stems stiffen and the flower heads remain facing east.
Find more info on this beautiful flower on Wikipedia.
