Sunflowers can instantly lift anyone’s spirits, making them the perfect pick-me-up gift. Nothing quite radiates positive vibes, happiness, and joy like a sunflower. With their bright yellow sun-like appearance, we know sunflowers as “happy” flowers. And our selection of sunflower quotes might be the next best thing.

Read on, and you’ll find sunflower sayings and quotes about their beauty, positive energy, growing these beauties, and their presence in the arts. These short, sweet, and bright sunflower quotes can lift your spirits and brighten your day.

Best sunflower quotes.

Sunflower is the common name for plants in the genus Helianthus. This genus consists of about 70 species of perennial and annual flowering plants.

The sunflower is one of the most easily recognizable flowers in our world. One of the unique characteristics of these flowers is that they turn their face to the sun and the sunflower blossoms in the sun’s rays. Sunflowers stand tall, plain, honest, and upright. In this section, we’ve compiled some of our favorite sunflower quotes for you to explore.

Related: You might also like our selection of sun quotes, flower quotes, and wildflower quotes for more from nature and blooms. For more about these tall, sunny blooms, check our list of sunflower facts.

“We’re all golden sunflowers inside.”
– Allen Ginsberg

“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

“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 enamored bosom to his ray.”
– James Thomson

“A sunflower teaches us so much about love.”
– Samrah Ahmad

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

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

~ Richard Rohr

Sunflower quotes about their striking colors and unique beauty.

Sunflowers have an exceptional kind of beauty. It’s almost impossible not to recognize the enchanted sunflower as it turns its face to the sun. If you have a garden with sunflowers, you can watch how, in the morning, the sunflower blossoms.

A sunflower field is unlike any other flower field. Its vibrant, striking colors and bright yellow petals provide much to appreciate. As Matshona Dhliwayo said, “If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.” Below, we’ve compiled some of the best sunflower quotes appreciating their beauty and colors.

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

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

“Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.”
– Charles Jencks