Succulents are plants for all seasons in all places. Now, this is not just a cute quote, it is a statement of fact. They are among the most amazing life forms in the world. In terms of resilience, these plants can withstand and thrive in conditions no other plants can. They are extremely hardy growing in some of the hottest, barest deserts on earth. The plants have adaptations to trap due from the atmosphere through the leaves when there is none to be had from the ground. The ability to do what other plants can’t do to survive makes them different. Mother Nature has endowed them with innovation, and the ability to think outside the box, they thrive where other people would easily perish.
These succulents do all the above while still managing to stand out, not only among plants but among the things we consider the most beautiful. Some of them are cute, others elegant and some are even scary but rarely will you find a succulent you can ignore. Succulent’s attributes are what we all aspire for; they can teach us important life lessons on a fighting spirit, resilience, innovation, and being gives of joy. Also, you can get some pretty nice puns from them. The following are some quotes about succulents.
Cute and Positive Succulent Quotes
- “Aloe you vera much.” – Unknown
- “I guess I am a succulent mom now.” – Unknown
- “You had me on aloe” – Unknown
- “Succulents are planttastic.” – Unknown
- “Stuck on you.” – Unknown
- “I hope your birthday is on point.” – Unknown
- “I’m ready to stop being cacti, and ready to start being cactUS”
- “I tried grilled cactus at a restaurant today. It was succulent.” – Unknown
- “I did not choose plant life. The plant life chose me.” – Unknown
- “Home is where the succulents are.” – Unknown
- “I guess I’m a plant mom now.” – Unknown
- “You’re a sucCUTElent.” Unknown
- “Have I just bought too many succulents?! Well I guess I succ at shopping.” – Unknown
- “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.” – Mitch Hedberg
- “Another day, another succulent purchase.” – Unknown
- “Say aloe to my little friend!” – Unknown
- “I am rooting for you” – Unknown
- “You are looking sharp.” – Unknown
- “Aloe you.” – Unknown
- “Let’s stick together.” – Unknown
- “Whenever you feel unhappy, plan a succulent garden.” – Unknown
- “Be a cactus in a world of delicate flowers.” – Unknown
- “The favorite song of succulents is, ‘Aloe-lluyah, it’s raining, man’.” – Unknown
- “Here’s hoping that your day doesn’t succ.” – Unknown
- “My cactus puns are succulent.” – Unknown
- “You prickle my fancy.” – Unknown
- “I’m a succa for puns.” Unknown
- “Life would succ without you.” Unknown
- “You think my plant collection looks amazing? Awwwww succs!” – Unknown
- “I’m sexy and I grow it.” – Unknown
- “It’s not easy being so tiny and green.” – Unknown
- “I’m busy tonight. Staying home with my plants.” – Unknown
- “Just wanted to say aloe” – Unknown
- “A succulent to a new friend: Aloe there” – Unknown
- “Sometimes life succs, just stand tall, stay sharp and never desert your dreams.” – Unknown
- “I tried grilled cactus at a restaurant today. It was succulent.” – Unknown
- “Not dead yet succa” – Unknown
- “Supp succa?” – Unknown
- “Pretty fly for a cacti.” – Unknown
- “I wet my plants.” – Unknown
- “I succ at this.” – Unknown
- “My new addition is suc-CUTE-lent.” – Unknown
- “Crazy cat lady-NO, crazy plant lady-YES.” – Unknown
- “Plant a kiss on me.” Unknown
- “Pot it like it’s hot.” – Unknown
- “You grow girl!” – Unknown
- “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy even more succulents and that’s pretty much the same thing.” – Unknown
- “Aloe darkness, my old friend.” – Unknown
- “Can’t touch this.” – Unknown
- “In thorned regions
Stand the ranks
Of patient cactus
Watching with vegetable
patience
The deserts’ dying
The winds’ empty voice
As aliens
Obliterate
In well-meant ignorance
The cactus
and the
cottonwood —“
Steve Coppinger, from Cactus and the Cottonwood, in Arizona Highways, October 1971 - “If holding a cactus can cure my pain, I would love to have it for a whole life.” – Proverb
- “In the desert of my heart, you don’t need to blossom like a cactus.” – Richa
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Inspirational Succulent Quotes
- “I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus.” — Ilona Andrews
- “I am no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.” — Anonymous
- “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust.” – Gertrude Jekyll
- “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” – A A Milne
- “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot
- “The trees were in leaf, and every plant was blooming, except for the cacti, which were being stubbornly prickly.” — Jeremy Pascall
- April showers bring May flowers. – English proverb
- “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.” – Alice Walker
- “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” – Edwin Curran
- “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” – Minnie Aumonier
- “The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.” – William Wordsworth
- “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank
- “Life is like a cactus; thorny, but beautiful.” — Anonymous
- “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Hope is not a resting place but a starting point — a cactus, not a cushion.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” – Alfred Austin
- “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood
- “Don’t jack off a cactus; you’ll only hurt your hand and the cactus’ feelings.” — Tre Cool
- “I found my happy place. It’s filled with succulents.” — Anonymous
- “Another day, another succulent purchase.” — Anonymous
- “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “The love of gardening is a seed that was once sown that never dies.” – Gertrude Jekyll
- “Tequila is a good drink: you drink it, and you feel like a cactus; the only problem is that in the morning and thorns grow inward.” — Anonymous
- All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. – Indian proverb
- “We reap what we sow. We cannot expect apples when we have sown the seed of a cactus.” — Anonymous
- Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. – Alfred Austin
- “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse
- “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
- The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. – German proverb
- Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “Don’t judge a day by what you receive, but by the succulents, you grow.” — Harlow Kasprak
- “I’m now taking name suggestions for my new succulent.” — Anonymous
- “The more help a person has in the garden, the less it belongs to him.” – W H Davies
- “The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.” – Monty Don
- “You know you’re an Arizona native when you hug a cactus only once in your lifetime.” — Nancy Dedera
- The gardener who loves roses is a slave to a thousand thorns. – Turkish proverb
- “What is the difference between a cactus and a political caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.” — Anonymous
- “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard de Nerval
- “Adolescence is like cactus.” — Anais Nin
- “Garden as though you will live forever.” – William Kent
- He who plants a garden plants happiness. – Chinese Proverb
- “‘You have too many succulents,’ said no one ever.” — Anonymous
- “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke
- Life begins the day you start a garden. – Chinese Proverb
- “I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I want to lose myself.” – Alice Sebold
- More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. – Spanish Proverb
- “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy more succulents, and that’s pretty much the same thing!” — Anonymous
- “I’ve never met a succulent I didn’t like.” — Anonymous
- To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist, every flower is a weed. – Finnish proverb
- “Use plants to bring life.” – Douglas Wilson
- “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson
- “Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.” — Joyce Meyer
- “Life is like a succulent, full of pricks, but incredibly beautiful.” – Unknown
- “Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
- All gardening is landscape painting.” – William Kent
- “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin
- “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud
- “Slowly turning my kitchen into a succulent-filled desert.” — Anonymous
- “Nothing worth having comes easy; plant your succulents with patience and love.” — Proverb
- All gardeners know better than other gardeners. – Chinese Proverb
- “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Yesterday’s flowers are today’s dreams. – Japanese proverb
- “I bought a cactus. A week later, it died. And I got depressed because I thought: Damn, I am less nurturing than a desert.” — Demetri Martin
- “Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.” – Helen Mirren
- “Cactus classification is similar to fashion on women skirts: They first shorten improperly, and then lengthen excessively.” — C. Glass and R. Foster
- “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” – Robert Brault
- “You told us to leave you in the desert because you planned to start a new life as cactus. Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.” — Cassandra Clare
- “I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.” – C Z Guest
- “I always see gardening as an escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.” – Monty Don
- “Don’t wait for someone to bring you succulents; plan your own, and decorate your soul.” — Luther Burbank
- A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb
- “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” – May Sarton
- “I read books so dry even a cactus couldn’t grow on them.” — Jarod Kintz
- “Get plenty of sunshine to accentuate your strong points Be patient through dry spells Conserve your resources Don’t desert your friends Wait for your time to bloom Stay sharp!” – Ilan Shamir, “Advice from a Cactus”
- “Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Smile, even if you have to stand on a cactus” “Grow positive thoughts.” Bloom where you are planted.” “Keep going, you are growing.” “Don’t let the prickly things in life get you down.” “I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it’s a cactus.” – Norman Brodsky, founder, and CEO of Perfect Courier.
- “Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.” – Charles Proteus Steinmetz
- “Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.” – Rich Riordan, from The Lightning Thief
- “A tumble from the rocks would probably land us in a cactus—and anyone who’s ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cactus knows there’s a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.” – Kevin Hearne, Hounded, 2011
- “Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight, and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.” – Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
- “Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like loving a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it’s going to hurt you.” – Demetri Martin
- “Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.” – Susan Longacre
- “Nothing worth having comes easy, plant your succulents with patience and love.” – Proverb
- . “Let’s root for each other and watch each other grow.” – Unknown
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Funny Succulent Quotes
- “Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “Tequila is a good drink: you drink it and you feel like a cactus; the only problem is that in the morning and thorns grow inward.” – Anonymous
- “My neighbor asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him, of course, he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden.” – Eric Morecambe
- “Gardening is cheaper than therapy – and you get tomatoes.” – unknown
- “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” – Doug Larson
- There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” – Janet Kilburn Phillips
- Housework is for people who don’t know how to garden” – unknown
- “The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden.” – Ray D Everson
- “Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.” – Monty Don
- “A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place but intends to stay.” – Sara Stein
- “Old gardeners never die, they just go to seed.” – unknown
- “Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Lou Erickson
- “Life is like a cactus. Thorny, but beautiful.”
- “I am no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
- “I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed because I thought: Damn I am less nurturing than a desert.” – Demetri Martin
- “I read books so dry even a cactus couldn’t grow on them.”- Jarod Kintz
- “You know you’re an Arizona native when you hug a cactus only once in your lifetime.” – Nancy Dedera
- “Don’t jack off a cactus, you’ll only hurt your hand and the cactus’ feelings.” – Tre Cool
- “Cactus classification is similar to fashion on women skirts: They first shorten improperly, and then lengthen excessively.” – C. Glass and R. Foster
- “A cactus is just a really aggressive cucumber.” – Unknown
- “What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.” – John Diefenbaker
- “We reap what we sow. We cannot expect apples when we have sown the seed of a cactus.” – Anonymous
- “The trees were in leaf and every plant was blooming, except for the cacti which were being stubbornly prickly.” – From God: The Ultimate Autobiography
- “I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.” – Benedict Cumberbatch
- “Naw, I’m not going out there and coming back, looking like you, cactus butt!” – Shenzi in The Lion King
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Beautiful Succulent Quotes
- “Just another succulent appreciation post.” — Anonymous
- “I think I’ll just stay in this succulent-filled haven for a while.” — Anonymous
- “Life is like a succulent, full of pricks, but incredibly beautiful.” — Anonymous
- “I like to take long walks down the succulent aisle.” — Anonymous
- “Slow mornings and succulents, babe.” — Anonymous
- “Enjoy the little things.” — Succulent Lover
- “If you want to be happy for a lifetime, grow succulents.” — Proverb
- “Keep calm and grow succulents.” — Anonymous
- “If there are succulents, you can believe I am going to show up!” — Anonymous
- “Be a succulent in a world of delicate flowers.” — Proverb
- “Be honest. Have I bought too many succulents?” — Anonymous
- “Imagine if you could take every single one of these succulents home.” — Anonymous
- “I’m a succa for you.” — Succulent Lover
- “To plant succulents is to believe in tomorrow.” — Lone Thinker
- “We grow when things are hard.” — Succulent Queen
- “I’m now taking name suggestions for my new succulent.”
- “I found my happy place. It’s filled with succulents.”
- “I might like plants more than people.”
- “Tiny succulent alert!”
- “Planting this beauty on my feed.”
- “Home is where the succulents are.”
- “It’s not easy being so tiny and green.”
- “Just another succulent appreciation post.”
- “Succ it up.” — Succulent Lover
- “If you take a selfie with your succulents, is it called a face plant?” — Anonymous
- “Go wherever the succulents are.” — Anonymous
- Who does not love a nice succulent?
- “TBH, I think there’s still room in here for more succulents.” — Anonymous
- “Succulent lady is the new cat lady.” — Anonymous
- “Only a few love the cactus as others fail to see their beauty. Because others just hate them for the thorns they possess, and they don’t understand the fact that they are meant to work as their protecting gear.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t judge a day by what you receive, but by the succulents, you grow.” – Harlow Kasprak
- “Don’t wait for someone to bring you succulents, plan your own, and decorate your soul.” – Luther Burbank
- “Oh, the places you will grow.”
- “I’m so glad I pricked you.” – Said a cactus 🙂
- “TBH, I think there’s still room in here for more succulents.”
- “I like to take long walks down the succulent aisle.”
- “Big plant mom energy.”
- “Go wherever the succulents are.”
- “Slow mornings and succulents, babe.”
- “If you take a selfie with your succulents, is it called a face plant?”
- “I think I’ll just stay in this succulent-filled haven for a while.”
- “Welcome to the succulent jungle.”
- “Be honest, have I bought too many succulents?”
- “Imagine if you could take every single one of these succulents home…”
- “Got a new plant friend today, so it’s safe to say it’s been good.”
- “More escapes into the desert, please.”
- “Dessert with a side of desert-like beings.”
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Final Words
Growing succulents isn’t just satisfying on a surface level. It also has a way of giving perspective to life. The above quotes are from people who talked about keeping succulents, cacti, or situations that can be extrapolated from the art. There is something for everyone, whether you are looking for cute positive succulent quotes, inspiration, or otherwise. Might you want to add a few quotes as a succulent parent?
ABOUT ME
Richard | Editor-in-chief at Succulent City
Hey everyone! I’m Richard. Welcome to my blog, which is all about succulents, cacti, and a bit about air plants. Ten years back, in 2013, I began my journey with succulents. It started as a simple hobby, crafting and selling charming succulent-themed pins and decorations. But as time passed, my fascination with these remarkable plants grew, and I gained extensive knowledge about them. Therefore, Succulent City is the blog as you see it is now. Enjoy your visit and happly planting!