100 Rose Quotes To Tell The Story Of Strength And Beauty

Discover the wisdom of the most beautiful flowers hidden in these inspiring rose quotes!

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10 Most Beautiful Rose Quotes

1. “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” — Katharine Lee Bates

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2. “A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia

3. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” — Kahlil Gibran

4. “For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down.” — Rumi

5. “Teaching you how to grow a garden is better than giving you a thousand roses.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

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6. “But he that dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose.” — Anne Bronte

7. “The rose is fairest when its budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.” — Sir Walter Scott

8. “As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” — Ben Hogan

9. “A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.” — Chinese Proverb

10. “If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” — Isaac Hayes

Rose Quotes To Help You Bloom & Thrive

1. “Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

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2. “You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still.” — Thomas Moore

3. “A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be terribly selfish if it wanted the flowers in the garden to be all red and all roses.” — Oscar Wilde

4. “If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

5. “One rose is enough for the dawn.” — Edmond Jabes

6. “Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.” — Leanne Rimes

7. “In a world full of roses, stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a green, plush lawn!” ― June Stoyer

8. “Don’t raise your girls to be porcelain roses protected behind a cabinet’s glass sliding doors. Raise your girls to be wild roses growing on mountaintops, exposed to the sunlight and to bees. I give you this guarantee: that life requires the latter and the prior is a myth.” ― C. JoyBell C.

9. “Then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl’s face the color of white roses.” — Scott Fitzgerald

10. “The moon is ripe with summer’s love; her heart wild as a rose.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby

Soft petals whisper nature's sweet secrets.

11. “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping its dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.” — Tupac Shakur

12. “The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.” — Angelus Silesius

13. “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

14. “Everybody loves roses: they are the symbol of virtually everywhere, from England to North Dakota. They are an international icon for innocence, and beauty, and rugby; the knee-jerk favorite of politicians, poets, and other enemies of civilization.” — Charlotte Mendelson

15. “God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.” — J. M. Barrie

Fragrant whispers in delicate rose petals.

16. “But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.” — John Keats

17. “Those who don’t pick roses in summer won’t pick them in winter either.” — German Proverb

18. “Roses, roses, roses, I thank all the roses that bloom in the Spring.” — Andy Williams

19. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” — George Eliot

20. “They are not long, the days of wine and roses.” — Ernest Dowson

Gentle elegance in scattered rose petals.

Inspiring Quotes About Roses

1. “Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.” — Andy Puddicombe

2. “The world is a rose, smell it, and pass it to your friends.” — Persian Proverb

3. “A rose looks gray at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.” — Johnny Cash

4. “This rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5. “Just like the rose holds her beauty among the thorns – we can gather our strength from the most unlikely places.” ― Christine Evangelou

6. “I hate biochemistry because there is no chapter on roses.” — Farooq A. Shiekh

7. “I remember, I remember the roses, red and white, the violets, and the lily cups. Those flowers are made of light! The lilacs, where the robin built, and where my brother set the laburnum on his birthday,- the tree is living yet.” — Thomas Hood

8. “As delicate as flower, as tender as rose petals, choosing to be tender and kind in a harsh environment is not weakness, it’s courage.” ― Luffina Lourduraj

9. “It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important. People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

10. “She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.” — Olga Broumas

Nature's beauty in delicate pink petals.

11. “Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.” — Turkish Proverb

12. “We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” — Dale Carnegie

13. “Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads surrounding.” — Sukarno

14. “A single flower he sent me since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose, deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet one perfect rose.” — Dorothy Parker

15. “The gentle rose offers a powerful joy known only to the heart.” ― Andrew Pacholyk

16. “An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.” — H. L. Mencken

17. “The thorns we endure in life are but shadowed by the precious petals of a rosey outlook.” ― Andrew Pacholyk

18. “Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.” — Rita Moreno

19. “Where, you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett

20. “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.” — Ray Evans

Soft pink roses add charm to nature's beauty.

Rose Quotes To Broaden Your Perspective

1. “If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.” — J. B. Yeats

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2. “The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.” – Saadi

3. “No rose without a thorn.” — French Proverb

4. “Loveliest of lovely things are on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.” — William C. Bryant

5. “A rose does not lose its beautiful scent because it grew in dirt.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

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6. “The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.” — Ovid

7. “The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.” — Paulo Coelho

8. “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Ziggy

9. “White rose in the red rose-garden is not so white. Snowdrops, that plead for pardon and pine for fright because the hard east blows over their maiden vows grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

10. “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

Graceful blooms on pink create a serene spectacle.

11. “Roses fall, but the thorns remain.” — Dutch Proverb

12. “I’d rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.” — Nema Al-Araby

13. “One rose says more than the dozen.” — Wendy Craig

14. “People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

15. “When the devil offers you a rose, its petals are laced with poison.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

Soft pink setting accentuates elegant white-pink roses.

16. “A rose to the living is more than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.” — Nixon Waterman

17. “Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr

18. “Truths and roses have thorns about them.” — Henry David Thoreau

19. “Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.” — Unknown

20. “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” — Emma Goldman

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Rose Quotes About Beauty

1. “It’s ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn’t a rose at all.” — Crystal Woods

Velvet petals whisper in soft rose harmony.

2. “Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

3. “Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn’t a rose at all.” — Crystal Woods

4. “A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn.” — Rumi

5. “I love rose gold – it’s just beautiful and classy and timeless.” — Madelaine Petsch

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6. “The more you focus on the beauty of roses, the more invisible their thorns become; and an anthophile will never stop loving roses even when their thorns harm him. Therefore, this is how love should be!” ― Bruce Mbanzabugabo

7. “Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.” — W. Somerset Maugham

8. “It’s a rare man that understands the value of a perfect rose.” — Mary Alice Young

9. “Dear Superwoman, remember that a rose does not stop looking beautiful, because of the thorns around it. So, never allow weaknesses to stop you from admiring your own strengths.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

10. “There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soft hues unfold in the beauty of delicate roses.

11. “There’s no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.” — La La Anthony

12. “A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

13. “A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.” — William Carlos Williams

14. “We all agree now – by ‘we’ I mean intelligent people under sixty – that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.” — Clive Bell

15. “If the rose is a beautiful flower, it is also because it opens itself.” — Charles De Leusse

Soft rose petals paint a peaceful floral tableau.

Rose Quotes About Life & Love

1. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” — Mark Overby

2. “Love and a red rose can’t be hid.” — Thomas Holcroft

3. “When you’re doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.” — Paige Craig

4. “My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.” — Bret Michaels

5. “True love is like little pink roses, sweet, and fragrant in small doses.” — Ana Claudia Antunes

Vibrant red roses pop against crisp white.

6. “I will stop loving you only when a deaf painter manages to paint the noise of a rose petal falling on a glass floor of a castle never existed.” — Jim Morrison

7. “The more you love roses the more you must bear with thorns.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

8. “Then your soul is a golden narcissus,’ said Anne, ‘and Diana’s is like a red, red rose. Jane’s is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.’ ‘And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,’ finished Priscilla.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery

9. “Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.” — Arthur Miller

10. “She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, but in all my garden there is no red rose.” — Oscar Wilde

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11. “I am a rose, you are my thorns, clutching to me, protecting me.” — Bernice Ellrick

12. “When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to receive him.” — Thomas Campbell

13. “Love is a rose, but you’d better not pick it, only grows when it’s on the vine. Handful of thorns and you know you’ve missed it. Lose your love when you say the word mine.” — Linda Ronstadt

14. “Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

15. “Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.” — Sai Baba

Bold red roses shine against a clean white surface.

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I hope these rose quotes have inspired you to cherish their and your own beauty and strength.