75 Best Butterfly Sayings (Inspirational/Motivational) 2023

Inspirational Butterfly Sayings

I’d be a butterfly born in a bower, where roses and lilies and violets meet.

The butterfly said to the sun, ‘They can’t stop talking about my transformation. I can only do it once in my lifetime. If only they knew, they can do it at any time and in countless ways.’ – Dodinsky

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. – Bradley Millar

A caterpillar, after its deep slumber, ‘wakes up to reality’ to realize, that truth is not always bitter after all! – Manali Oak

A butterfly is a miracle, a divine creation that fleets, propelling the caterpillar within, an array of predators it cheats.

A caterpillar is a butterfly in disguise.

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

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? – Zhuangzi

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. – Muhammad Ali

Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – R. Buckminster Fuller

When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free. – Wilma Rudolph

When God becomes glad with our good works, then He sends the cute animals, birds, butterflies etc. near us like a signal to express His happiness. – Md. Ziaul Haque

If butterflies could sing, they would sing, ‘Baby Shark.’ – Anthony T. Hincks

Eyes are drugs. There are all Butterflies in my eyes, be safe Dear creatures. – Zuairijah Mou

Failure is like a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly. – Peta Kelly

‘Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing,’ said the Butterfly. – Sabrina Newby

Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and become utterly extraordinary. It is the shortest phase of their lives, but it holds the greatest importance. It shows us how empowering change can be. – Kelseyleigh Reber

It’s very tough for me to focus. I’m like: ‘Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!’ – Gabby Douglas

Butterfly Sayings

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. – Alma Gluck

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. – Louie Schwartzberg

I don’t really go out partying, but I’m definitely a social butterfly. – Eliza Doolittle

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. – Ernest Hemingway

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

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. – Gary Zukav

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I’m a beautiful, black butterfly. – Tracy Morgan

What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies? – Roy Rogers

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

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity

George Carlin

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 a butterfly.

Richard Bach

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

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

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Drew Barrymore

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

R.H. Heinlein

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time

Deborah Chaskin

Butterflies are God’s confetti, thrown upon the Earth in celebration of His love

K. D’Angelo

The butterflies…What an educated sense of beauty they have. They seem only an ornament to society, and yet, if they were gone, how substantial would be their loss

Phil Robinson

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

Beautiful Butterfly Sayings

The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.

Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Muhammad Ali

Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

Stephanie Marshall

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Butterflies are a breath of beauty fluttering by, they are mystery chronicled upon wing, they bring forth the grace and wonder of this world to our eyes everyday

K. D’Angelo

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Elizabeth Goudge

I’d be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

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

K. D’Angelo

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

Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring’st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart.

William Wordsworth

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

K. D’Angelo

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.

Hans Christian Anderson

How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

Butterflies…flowers that fly and all but sing.

Robert Frost

They seemed to suddenly come upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in a winter wood.

Edith Wharton

Butterflies are more like flowers; there only advantage is that they can touch the sky.

A butterfly always reminds that there is always beauty at the end of all the pain.

When I thought that my life was already over I became a splendid butterfly.

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

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me. – Gayle Forman

Best Butterfly Sayings 2020

Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner. – Norah Lofts

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly. – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Take time to be a butterfly. – Gillian Duce

You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry. – Melody Lee

I think that positivity, real positivity, is like the butterflies. The whole essence of the butterfly: caterpillar, cocoon, winged creature. When I look at a butterfly, I not only see a winged beauty, but I also see a strong beauty. – C. JoyBell C.

Do you ever feel as if everything surrounding you is in slow motion, moving through tar? There you are, and there’s the world. You’re outside staring in the window, observing reality happen, but you don’t exist in it. You just watch, and watch. That’s how I feel, like the dead butterfly staring back at you through the glass. – Kyle Labe

I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoons without tempering my amazement. Knowing all beauty eventually dies. – Justin Wetch

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. – Drew Barrymore

‘Just living is not enough,’ said the butterfly, ‘one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.’ – Hans Christian Anderson

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