Unicorns are the symbol of freedom, magic, joy, and innocence—the enchanted animal of miracles that teach kids to believe that anything is possible. They inspire imagination and creativity, and it’s just impossible to be sad when you think of the sparkly, glittery beauty. So in honor of this year’s National Unicorn Day, we present a list of 110 unicorn quotes that include inspiring and motivational sayings, to clever and sassy comebacks. Maybe you’ll even find a message or two to send to a friend who could use a little more magic in their life!
110 Unicorn Quotes in Honor of National Unicorn Day
- “Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.”
- “I’m Not A Gym Rat. I’m a Gym Unicorn.”
- “Be a unicorn in a field of horses.”
- “It’s not a unicorn — it’s a horse with a sword on its head that protects my hopes and dreams.” — Tad Quill and Gabrielle Allan
- “Life’s not easy for unicorns, you know. We’re a dying breed.” — Meg Cabot
- “Unicorns are awesome. I am awesome. Then I am a unicorn.”
- “Be a diamond-studded unicorn: unbreakable and unique.” — Coco, Unicorn Psychosis
- “Be a unicorn. Embrace your uniqueness.”
- “When someone told me that I live in a fantasy land, I nearly fell off my unicorn.”
- “I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! you should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn’t feel sorry if other people don’t have one.” — C. JoyBell C.
- “Keep calm. There are pink fluffy unicorns dancing on the rainbows.”
- “You are unique and amazing. Let your sparkle show everywhere you go!”
- “All it takes to bring out the magic in someone is a little love!”
- “It’s going to be a rainbows and unicorns kind of day.”
- “Now I will believe that there are unicorns…” — William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- “You may have stopped believing in unicorns, but they never stopped believing in you.”
- “I like unicorns. Unicorns are just weaponized ponies.” – Damon Suede
- “Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a unicorn to ride about the town.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “Life’s all about rainbows, glitter and unicorns.”
- “I would wanna be a mermaid, but I think I’m a little bit more of a unicorn, because I’m like a little bit more horsey.” — Blake Lively
- “Sugar is sweet, lemons are tart, I love you more than a unicorn fart.”
- “It’s like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.” — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
- “Unicorns don’t care if you believe in them any more than you care if they believe in you.”
- “Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.” — Olley White, Fighting Dirty Too
- “Unicorns don’t lose sleep over the opinions of little ponies.”
- “Make your life story so amazing that unicorns have trouble believing it is true.” — Karen Salmansohn
- “I thought unicorns were more… fluffy” — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
- “Comic sans is never an appropriate font unless you are an 8-year-old girl writing poems about unicorns.”
- “Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, “if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.” — Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- “A wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.” – Tibetan proverb
- “All the beasts obeyed Noah when he admitted them into the ark. All but the Unicorn. Confident of his own abilities, he boasted, ‘I shall swim.’” — Ukranian folktale
- “The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.” — Brandon Mull, Grip of the Shadow Plague
- “Life is about living, not surviving. Make the best of every day and try to find glitter in every black and white painting you encounter!”
- “Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.” — Claudia Bakker
- “Someone told me to grow up yesterday. I immediately banned that person from ever riding my unicorn!”
- “He read? Oh my God, guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.” — J. Lynn, Stay With Me 37. “Don’t leave your individuality behind! No fantasy novel started with someone who fit into every mold.”
- “You are like a unicorn that brings ice cream — you are too good to be true.” — NotSalmon
- “The last unicorn wasn’t really the last. And maybe she still isn’t.” — Laura Alden, Leaning About Unicorns
- “You weren’t born to be perfect. You were born to be a unicorn, but that is pretty much the same thing.”
- “The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.” — Peter S. Beagle. The Last Unicorn
- “The unicorn is not known for its horn, beauty, or purity; But for its strength and courage as one.” — Nicole Beckwith
- “When being a person is too complicated, it’s time to be a unicorn.”
- “I believe in the possibility of the existence of anything I can’t prove doesn’t exist.” — Miranda
- “When my friends told me I was delusional, I just about fell off my unicorn.”
- “I love nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient for living.” — Dr. Seuss
- “The bottom line is: if you were a jerk in your original life, you’re probably going to be a bigger un-dead jerk. If you were a decent person, say a juvenile-services librarian with a secret collection of unicorn figurines, you’re probably going to be a kinder, gentler vampire.” ― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs
- “Alice found herself a unicorn to have her back, and so will you!”
- “The unicorn is born magical and it’s not the unicorn’s fault and it doesn’t make it any more or less special or any less unique but it can’t help that it was born with that magic.” — Lady Gaga
- “Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.” — Czeslaw Milosz
- “It’s hard to be different but persevering through it will make you stronger.”
- “Dreams are the playground of unicorns.”
- “A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view.” — Ron Sexsmith
- “Be realistic with your expectations. I’d really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it ain’t going to happen.” — India Knight
- “The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all, there has to be some belief in magic — however small — for any world to survive.” — Terry Brooks, The Black Unicorn
- “A unicorn doesn’t stand around and worry about what other unicorns think of it. It just sparkles.”
- “Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we’d give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet, they’d reveal their majestic ways.” — Ashley Purdy
- “The unicorns made me do it.”
- “My words and my ideas are my property, and I’ll keep and protect them as surely as I do my stable of unicorns.” — Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not For Sale
- “May your day be more beautiful than a unicorn farting rainbows.”
- “The unicorn was a marvelous beast, shining with honor, wisdom and strength. Just to see him strengthened the soul.” — Megan Lindholm, The Unicorn in the Maze
- “I wish I was a unicorn. So I could stab idiots in the head.”
- “Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.” — Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
- “You’re a talking unicorn. Sometimes when you poop, it comes out as rainbows and smells like cookies. There is nothing subtle about you.” — T.J. Klune, The Lightning-Struck Heart
- “Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.” — William Faulkner, Soldiers’ Pay
- “As long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.”
- “Play with fairies. Ride a unicorn. Swim with mermaids. Chase rainbows.” RELATED:150 Rainbow Quotes To Brighten Your Day
- “I’m not weird. I’m a unicorn.”
- “Your sparkle has not gone unnoticed.”
- “You are the rainbow to my unicorn.”
- “We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.” — Lynda Barry
- “What makes you different makes you beautiful.”
- “I have an invisible pink unicorn in my garage.”
- “Be the unicorn you wish to see in the world.”
- “Don’t dream it. Do it.”
- “Hope your day is filled with unicorns and glitter.”
- “Unicorn, mermaid, princess… It doesn’t matter. I’m special.”
- “Being a unicorn isn’t about being real. It’s about being real awesome.”
- “Like star dust glistening on fairies’ wings, little girls’ dreams are of magical things.” — Sherry Larson
- “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
- “I’m not crazy. Now get away from my unicorn.”
- “He is my unicorn, though… That’s how I felt falling in love with him, as if I’d found a creature of myth.” — Rivka Galchen
- “Happy as a unicorn eating cake on a rainbow.”
- “Too glam to give a damn.”
- “Unicorns are so lame. Said no one ever.”
- “Me, crazy? I should get down off this unicorn and slap you.”
- “Some days you just want to hop on your unicorn and fly somewhere over the rainbow.”
- “Behind every successful unicorn is a pack of haters.”
- “Did you hear about the unicorn with the negative attitude? She always said neigh.”
- “Sorry, I can’t. I have to take my unicorn for a walk.”
- “In unicorn we trust.”
- “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
- “Queen of the unicorns.”
- “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, anything can happen.”
- “She leaves a little sparkle everywhere she goes.”
- “Make today a glitter-filled bag of rainbows and unicorn farts.”
- “Be wild. Be crazy. Be you. You are a limited edition.”
- “I love you more than I love unicorns. And you know how much I love unicorns.”
- “Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer’s heart.”
- “Sorry… I got distracted listening to you and hot-glued myself to a unicorn.” — Mira Grant
- “Roll me in fairy dust and call me a unicorn.”
- “I’m just a magical unicorn chasing rainbows.”
- “Happiness is believing in unicorns.”
- “I’m a unicorn because this world needs more fantasy.”
- “Don’t kill my magical vibe.”
- “Bringing rainbows and fairy dust to a neighborhood near you.”
- “Unicorns are my spirit animal.”
- “A life without unicorns is like a life without sprinkles.”
- “Everything you can imagine is real.”
- “Well, at least unicorns love me.” Next, check out 30 fairy garden ideas.