52 Short Inspirational Rose Quotes to Inspire Your Soul

"A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."

- Rumi

"A rose does not lose its beauty because it grew amidst thorns."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

"Take time to smell the roses."

- Proverb

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?… Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared."

- Tupac Shakur

"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."

- Bette Midler

"The rose is a flower without a why, it blooms because it blooms; it pays no attention to itself, does not ask whether anyone sees it."

- Angelus Silesius

"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"He that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose."

- Anne Brontë

"There is simply the rose; it is perfect every moment of its existence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"But he that dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose."

- Anne Bronte

"A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"The rose is fairest when it is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears."

- Sir Walter Scott

"What a lovely thing a rose is!"

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"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

"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears."

- Isaac Hayes

"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all."

- Crystal Woods

"There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms."

- Angelus Silesius

"Life is uncertain. Today you get a rose. Tomorrow you feel the thorns."

- Shillpi S Banerrji

"Of all flowers, methinks a rose is best."

- William Shakespeare

"We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

- Dale Carnegie

"This love is the rose that blooms forever."

- Rumi

"A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn."

- Rumi

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

- William Carlos Williams

"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."

- Paulo Coelho

"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

- Ovid

"One rose says more than the dozen."

- Andy Crouch

"True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses."

- Ana Claudia Antunes

"No rose without a thorn."

- French Proverb

"Thorns and roses grow on the same tree."

- Turkish Proverb

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

- George Eliot

"The red rose whispers of passion, and the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, and the white rose is a dove."

- John Boyle O'Reilly

"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."

- Therese of Lisieux

"Love and a red rose can't be hid."

- Thomas Holcroft

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."

- Katharine Lee Bates

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

- Mark Overby

"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

- Emma Goldman

"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."

- Chinese Proverb

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Truths and roses have thorns about them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"A rose is a rose is a rose."

- Gertrude Stein