The life of a butterfly has a lot of lessons that we can learn from. Everything about the butterfly is a struggle, hope, and beauty. These best collection of butterfly motivational quotes will interest you to know more about butterflies and be motivated.
Butterfly Motivational Quotes
- Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. Drew Barrymore
- “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.” Charles Dickens
- “Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” Jeffrey Glassberg
- “Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time” Deborah Chaskin
- “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” Rabindranath Tagore
- “Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring”
- “We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.” Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.” George Carlin
- “With the rose the butterfly’s deep in love. A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, the sun’s sweet ray is hovering found…” Heinrich Heine, “New Spring”
- “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” Richard Buckminster Fuller
- “And the case of butterflies so rich it looks; As if all summer settled there and died.” Philip Larkin, “Autumn”
- “Butterflies…flowers that fly and all but sing”. Robert Frost
- And what’s a butterfly? At best,
He’s but a caterpillar, at rest. John Grey
- “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” Carl Sagan
- “Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.”
- As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. Joseph B. Wirthlin
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
- “We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.” LeeAnn Taylor
- We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
- Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. Alma Gluck
- “You can only chase a butterfly for so long.” Jane Yolen
- “Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There’s no better way to fly.” Pat Monahan
- “Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.” Hans Christian Andersen
- “Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.”H. Heinlein
- “Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” Hans Christian Anderson
- “But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire; They lie closed over in the wind and cling; Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.” Robert Frost, “Blue-Butterfly Day”
- “Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing”, said the Butterfly.” Sabrina Newby
- When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. Anna Pavlova
- “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” Naya Rivera
- “The butterfly flits from bloom to bloom, as not to miss one fragrant plume. In her sight exists no garden finale, only paradise of flowered hill and valley” D’Angelo
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. Richard Bach
- Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. Andre Gide
- “A power of Butterfly must be -The Aptitude to fly; Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky” Emily Dickinson
- Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn’t look anything like a butterfly. Lynn Margulis
- “Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” Jeffrey Glassberg
- “For when ideas flutter in a haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.” Shawn Lukas
- “Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.” Elizabeth Goudge
- A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we’re quick to deny it consciousness because it’s a species we dislike. Jeffrey Kluger
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.” Melody Lee
- The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly. Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun
- Life is like butterfly, everything is changing fast and never return to the way they are.
- “When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!” Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” Jeffrey Glassberg
- “Awaken to the universes simple gift of the butterfly. Watch with fascination and joy as a jeweled treasure glides by and gently touches your soul” D’Angelo
- “I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It’s a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.” Karl Kraus
- The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose,
And flirted around all day;
While round him in turn with her golden caress,
Soft fluttered the sun’s warm ray…
I know not with whom the rose was in love,
But I know that I loved them all.
The butterfly rose, and the sun’s bright ray,
The star and the bird’s sweet call. Heinrich Heine, “A New Spring,”
- “I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.” Chuang Tzu
- “This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it, but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.” Joseph Conrad
- “We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.” Gerald Brenan
- “Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation” Stephanie Pace Marshall
- “In nature, a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.” Anton Chekhov
- butterfly, butterfly
fly in the sky
butterfly, butterfly
flies so high
butterfly, butterfly
lands on my thigh
butterfly, butterfly
motionlessly lies
butterfly, butterfly
gracefully dies.
Adryan Bates
Life like butterfly quotes;
- I can’t wait to soar higher in the sky free from the burden of the weight of life like the beauty of butter fly.
- The butterfly has a short moment to spend, she is not perturbed, and yet she exudes all that is beautiful, very delightful and hopeful.
- I long to see you my love; you’re attracted to me like butterfly is attracted to flowers.
- From grass to grace the butterfly emerges from that ugly repulsive caterpillar to this beautiful colorful creature.
- Sweet heart I have sent you two beautiful butterflies to make your day colorful.
- When I thought that life was hitting hard at me, I remembered the story of the butterfly. Against all odd butterfly emerges as a beauty to behold.
- “I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” John Keats
- Sometimes we have to see our situation as a period of metamorphosis like the butterfly.
- Like butterflies, no condition is permanent. You have to be rejected first before you’re accepted.
- At first, the caterpillar never thought she could be so beautiful until she became a butterfly.
- If you’re unhappy and down, please take a stroll to the garden and glimpse at the beauty of the artistry mastery of nature piece “the butterfly.”
- “And the case of butterflies so rich it looks as if all summer settled there and died.”
- When I think of the butterfly, I’m beamed with hope. Against all odds and rejection, the ugly caterpillar became the colorful and admired butterfly.
- Does the butter take their colors from the rainbow that set a delightful color at the stream by the side of the mountain; falling down from the sky above?
- I do not need to buy my children expensive gifts, I just take them down the garden to see the nature’s best colorful creature ‘the butterfly’; they love to see this beautiful creature flip from one flower to another. I can see the passion in their eyes. I can feel satisfaction in their mind. I’m happy to take them on this costless adventure.
- My father took me by hand and said, son! I’m going to show you the flower that flies; down the garden, we walked, and he pointed at some colorful creatures; and he said that’s butterfly the flower that flies.
- Happiness is comparable to butterfly; the harder you try to pursue it the further it goes beyond your reach but if you just sit down patiently and calmly it will perch on you all by itself.
- Do not blame anyone for ignoring you when you’re are still a caterpillar, but don’t lose hope like the butterfly you will soon emerge.
- Like the story of the caterpillar and the butterfly, let’s be hopeful.
- Do not let the burden of the time weigh you down, be like a caterpillar, be strong with the time you’ll emerge as a beautiful butterfly.
- “I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don’t know where to soar, but I won’t allow life to clip my beautiful wings.” Janusz Korczak
- “Butterflies are reminders that miracles happen every day.” Robyn Nola
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
- As the butterfly emerges from being a caterpillar, may the wind of life sail you towards your success.
- “We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.” John Marsden
- “Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.” Jim Rohn
- “The butterfly said to the sun, they can’t stop talking about my transformation. I can do it once in my lifetime. If only they knew they can do at any time and in countless ways.” Dodinsky
- “The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.” Dennis Ponce
- Do not give up, you’re capable of doing great things like the butterfly.
- “If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.” Wendy Mass
- “Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.” Ruth Brown
- Your greatest asset lies within yourself, like a butterfly, endures the worst time and the brighter days will emerge soon.
- “How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life” Dean Koontz
- “Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing-like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.” Giorgio de Chirico
- “When she transformed into a butterfly; the caterpillar spoke not of her beauty but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she has wings.” Dean Jackson
- “With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.” Ryokan Taigu
- Like butterfly when she was a caterpillar, your life may not be what you want it to be, but don’t worry, work diligently and step by step your success will come.
- “I’ve always loved butterflies because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.” Drew Barrymore
- “Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.” William Moulton Marston
- “Some people are settling down; some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.” Candace Bushnell
- and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. Ruskin Bond
- “Nature’s message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.” Kjell Bloch Sandved
- “If there is one creature that represents my essence, it’s butterflies.” Patricia Velasquez
- “Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.” Ellen DeGeneres
- “Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.” Philip Pullman
- “The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.” Primo Levi
- “Death is the opening of a subtler life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.” Juliette Adam
- “The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing – for an instant – utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.” Ruth Rudner
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