Butterfly Quotes

Butterfly quotes, sayings about butterflies, and real live butterflies never fail to delight. They are symbols of transformation. They are beautiful and harmless and seem to dance with joy wherever they go.



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

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

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

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin

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

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

The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.
Paul Erlich

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

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Rob Gilbert

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

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.
Nathanial Hawthorne

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
R. H. Heinlein

The air is like a butterfly with frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky and sings…
J. Kilmer

When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message…that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.
Mary Meeker

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

To me books on butterflies or baseball are more legitimate in terms of thinking about business strategy issues.
Tom Peters

The butterfly often forgets it once was a caterpillar.
Swedish Proverb

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
William Stafford

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

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Edith Wharton



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