November is here. With leaves on the ground and the crisp air turning cold.

Winter is on the horizon. Snow has maybe already fallen once or twice.

It’s a cold and dark time but also one of cozy evenings, fun holiday days and gratitude.

And in today’s post I’d like to share 90 of the most uplifting, beautiful and inspirational November quotes.

Use them in your own life to make this a fun and positive month and share them with the people around you via texts, group chats and social media like Instagram to help them have a good one too.

Inspirational November Quotes to Welcome a Happy Month

“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.”
– Anna Madsen

“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
– Gladys Taber

“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
– Henry Rollins

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.”
– Dodinsky

“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.”
– E. E. Cummings

“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.”
– Alexander L. Fraser

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs

“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.”
– Aldo Leopold

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz

“November is the month that reminds us to be thankful. For the big things, for the small things and for making a spring that will come in due time so much sweeter.”
– Rip Miller

“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B. C. Forbes

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

“In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.”
– Amit Ray

Short and Uplifting November Quotes

“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”
– Gregory F. Lenz

“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”
– Anne Bosworth Greene

“There is the November sky, clean of summer dust.”
– Hal Borland

“Autumn is springtime in reverse.”
– Terri Guillemets

“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!”
– Edwin Way Teale

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus

“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
– Cyril Connolly

“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
– Arianna Huffington

“November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows.”
– Clyde Watson

“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.”
– Sir Walter Scott

“November is secret and silent.”
– Allison Uttley

“Oh how wonderfully you have grown since November of last year.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“The morns are meeker than they were – The nuts are getting brown – The berry’s cheek is plumper – The rose is out of town.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Spring is brown; summer, green; autumn, yellow; winter, white; November, gray.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant

Funny November Quotes for a Less Stressful End of Fall

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
– Emily Dickinson

“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
– Martha Gellhorn

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.”
– Johnny Carson

“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert

“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.”
– Aleksandr Wootton

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton

“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
– Edward Morgan Forster

“Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“This November there seems to be nothing to say.”
– Anne Sexton

“Jam on November took away the worries, It was like tasting summer.”
– El Fuego

“This is going to be a November to remember.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.”
– Sara Coleridge

Beautiful Hello November Quotes for an Aesthetic Autumn

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”
– Jean Hersey

“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep hymns of the sea, passionate wind songs in the pines.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“The river this November afternoon rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud. A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud. Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.”
– Cecil Day-Lewis

“Long cold nights mark November’s return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”
– Gladys Taber

“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.”
– John Clare

“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”
– Rainbow Rowell

“The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills.”
– Ray Bradbury

“November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”
– Gladys Taber

“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“The wild November comes at last beneath a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside, her face is full of pain. The latest of her race, she takes the Autumn’s vacant throne. She has but one short moon to live and she must live alone.”
– R.H. Stoddard

“It was one of those early November mornings that are as beautiful as any in spring. There was gold everywhere, drifts of it on the elm tree, flakes of gold under our feet, gold dust on the hedges, liquid gold in the refracted falling light.”
– Elizabeth Goudge

“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.”
– F. Sionil Jose

“When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades. That met above the merry rivulet, were spoil’d, I sought, I loved them still, they seem’d like old companions in adversity.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.”
– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.”
– D. H. Lawrence

“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds, and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
– J.K. Rowling

“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast.”
– John Howard Bryant

Motivational November Quotes for Work or School

“Embrace the crisp change of November as an opportunity for renewal and for a fresh start as the winds are howling outside.”
– Elise Green

“Even in the quiet and dark of November, there’s opportunity for progress while others rest or get unmotivated. So keep going.”
– George Saunders

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
– Ralph H. Blum

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
– Alexander Graham Bell

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“If I can’t do great things, I can do small things in great ways.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathanial Hawthorne

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.”
– Peggy Toney Horton

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
– Viggo Mortensen

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”
– Gary Ryan Blair

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb

Want more inspiration and motivation for the season? Then check out these short November quotes, the inspirational fall quotes in this post and also this one with funny autumn quotes.

October.

A mix of beautiful, crisp autumn mornings and windy and rainy evenings. The start of the last quarter as we go into the exciting but sometimes also stressful holiday season.

It’s a time of change.

And to help you make it a happy month I’d like to share 100 of the most positive, beautiful and funny short October quotes.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here to embrace all the change and lovely moments of this season and to spread the positive fall vibes on Instagram, your letter board and in your life.

Short Welcome October Quotes and Sayings for a Beautiful Fall

“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.”
– John Sinor

“In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.”
– Elizabeth George Speare

“The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.”
– Florence Bone

“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”
– Angela Carter

“October proved a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.”
– Keith Donohue

“Then came October, full of merry glee.”
– Edmund Spenser

“October is a symphony of permanence and change.”
– Bonaro W. Overstreet

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…”
– John Nichols

“My favorite color is October.”
– Unknown

“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
– Nova Bair

“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“October, baptize me with leaves!”
– Rainbow Rowell

“October is the treasure of the year, and all the months pay bounty to her store.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar

“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.”
– Hal Borland

“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”
– W.S. Merwin

“It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
– Lauren DeStefano

“October was always the least dependable of months… full of ghosts and shadows.”
– Joy Fielding

Short and Inspirational October Quotes for Your Letter Board

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful.”
– Unknown

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir

“Autumn whispered to the wind, ‘I fall but always rise again.’”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.”
– George Eliot

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë

“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.”
– Unknown

“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
– Rumi

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs

“Autumn colors my soul in the loveliest shades.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
– Unknown

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”
– Charlotte Bates

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
– Samuel Butler

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived.”
– Dodinsky

“In autumn,change is in the air. Embrace it. Use that energy in your own life.”
– Unknown

“October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures.”
– Sarah Guillory

“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler

Funny and Short October Quotes for Good Laughs (and Your Instagram)

“Sweater weather is better together.”
– Unknown

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker

“If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.”
– Devendra Banhart

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”
– Linus (form the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)

“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit!”
– Unknown

“O’ pumpkin pie, your time has come ’round again, and I am autumnrifically happy!”
– Terri Guillemets

“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it’s the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn.”
– Lauren Oliver

“Chicago is an October sort of city, even in spring.”
– Nelson Algren

“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson

“Happy Spook-tober!”
– Unknown

“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies, these are the things I love, I can tell no lies.”
– Unknown

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
– Jane Hirshfield

“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”
– Unknown

“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown

“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland

Short October Quotes for Motivation at Work or School

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.”
– A.A. Milne

“October is a great time for making a final push to make your dream real before the end of the year.”
– Unknown

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”
– Lauren DeStefano

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Stay humble, work hard, be kind.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Another fall, another turned page.”
– Wallace Stegner

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Work smarter, not harder.”
– Allen F. Morgenstern

“Yesterday’s dreams are today’s realities.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Short Hello October Quotes for an Aesthetic and Happy Month

“October air, complete with dancing leaves and sighing winds greeted him.”
– Jaime Allison Parker

“He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it – the ending and beginning of things.”
– Jacqueline Woodson

“October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes.”
– Ken Weber

“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”
– Leif Enger

“October is the month for painted leaves.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
– Rémy de Gourmont

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“I keep falling in love with October, over and over again!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master.”
– Elizabeth Enright

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
– Humbert Wolfe

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth.”
– Elizabeth George Speare

“In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp.”
– John Burroughs

“What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.”
– Carole Maso

“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps

“The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.”
– William Butler Yeats

“A boy who loved Autumn. A girl who was forever October.”
– Nitya Prakash

“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“The first of October was crisp and golden as a freshly picked apple.”
– Unknown

“Autumn arose and my soul bloomed.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.”
– Winston Graham

“I come alive in the fall time.”
– The Weeknd

“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”
– Mary Russell Mitford

“You don’t waste October sunshine.”
– Katherine Arden

Want more positive and uplifting inspiration for your autumn? Then check out these inspirational October quotes, the short fall quotes here and also these inspirational fall quotes.

Best Cozy Fall Decor Finds

Every year we curate a Cozy Fall Shop filled with cute and cozy fall decor finds for the home. We’ll keep adding new favorites throughout the season as more become available, so be sure to bookmark the Cozy Fall Shop and check back often!

Every year we curate a Cozy Fall Shop with lots of cute and cozy finds for the home! We continue adding to the Cozy Fall Shop throughout the season as more becomes available, so bookmark it to check back in periodically!

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We also created an Amazon Fall Decor folder HERE in my storefront where I’ll be adding more of my seasonal finds all autumn long!

See all our current favorite cozy fall decor finds on the Cozy Fall Shop page below.

Fall Decorating Inspiration Gallery on The Inspired Room

Get inspired by our Home Decor Mood Boards

How to Savor The In Between Season in Your Home with Summer to Fall Decorating (plus my faded faux hydrangeas and fall home decor ideas!)

September brings about many changes.

The long summer days become shorter. Warmth turns into crisp air as the leaves in all kinds of colors fall from the trees.

And we go back to work and school (or maybe start a chapter in life).

No matter what your fall season may bring, today I want to share 101 of the most positive, motivational and inspirational September quotes.

To help you make this a focused and motivated month. A successful but also a less stressful one.

And a happy and beautiful start to your fall season.

Inspirational September Quotes for a Happy Fall Season

“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson

“Let this be the September you always remember. The September you chose to accept: the best thing you could do was to let August fall behind you, and with an open heart embrace this new day that lies before you.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.”
– Peggy Toney Horton

“Time turns flames to embers / You’ll have new Septembers / Everyone of us has messed up too / Minds change like the weather / I hope you remember / Today is never too late to be brand new.”
– Taylor Swift

“September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and color. It glows like old amber.”
– Patience Strong

“September smiled at her wonderful friends in all their colors and bright eyes and gentle ways.”
– Catherynne M. Valente

“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
– Victoria Erickson

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on.”
– Lauren Oliver

“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
– Donna Tartt

“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”
– Rowland E. Robinson

“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”
– Alexander Theroux

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”
– Virginia Woolf

“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn awakened.”
– Raquel Franco

“September has come, it is hers whose vitality leaps in the autumn, whose nature prefers trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.”
– Louis MacNeice

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus

“Nostalgia – that’s the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will remember.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.”
– Stephen King

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”
– Henry Rollins

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
– Lauren DeStefano

Motivational September Quotes for Work and School

“And suddenly, you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
– Meister Eckhart

“Let’s strive to be better in September!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”
– V V Brown

“Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
– Wallace Stegner

“It is worth taking the time to stop and contemplate at the beginning of each new month.”
– Nadine Locke

“There is a clarity about September. On clear days, the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big.”
– Faith Baldwin

“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us.”
– B.C. Forbes

“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.”
– Brené Brown

“Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.”
– Roger Rosenblatt

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring and promise of exceeding joy hereafter.”
– George Arnold

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir

Funny September Quotes That Will Make You Laugh (Great for Stress Relief)

“Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.”
– Mary Berry

“Wine is the divine juice of September.”
– Voltaire

“Happy September! The world shall now transform into pumpkin everything.”
– Keith Wynn

“September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.”
– Jenny Wingfield

“I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.”
– Dominic Riccitello

“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bernard Williams

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature.”
– Tom Robbins

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland

“Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples. Now obviously this is provoked by the ripening fruit clustering on the trees in our orchard, but it is as though all things pomological ripen in me, too.”
– Monty Don

“It must be September, July sun has disappeared.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September begins.”
– Shon Hyneman

“Let’s all be nice to September.”
– Nitya Prakash

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September.”
– Helen Bevington

“In short, a bad Sunday of September, in September of that traitor who let you go a big wave passed upon him, like a gunshot between the prickly pears.”
– Giovanni Verga

“Summer has come and passed. The innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends.”
– Green Day

“How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.”
– Eleanor Clark

Beautiful September Quotes on The Start of Autumn for Your Instagram

“September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.”
– Olive Wendell Holmes

“It was a lovely afternoon – such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.”
– Mary Webb

“The roses hung their heads and dreamed under the still September clouds, and the water plashed and murmured softly among the pebbles of the shore.”
– E.L. Voynich

“It strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September’s end and fell like an early leaf.”
– William H. Gass

“But now in September, the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head… The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on.”
– Robert Finch

“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.”
– Ali Smith

“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland

“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”
– Amit Ray

“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.”
– Sharyn McCrumb

“September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures.”
– Lea Malot

“The old summer’s-end melancholy nips at my heels. There’s no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation.”
– Sara Baume

“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The September storms – the hurricane warnings far away, the sudden gales, the downpour of rain that we have so badly needed here for so long – are exhilarating.”
– Faith Baldwin

“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough, to paint the beautiful things I see.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop

“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.”
– George R.R. Martin

“September sky never looked more charming, or the sublime petals of the rose looked so graceful.”
– Avijeet Das

“The leaves of brown came tumbling down. Remember, in September, in the rain. The sun went out just like a dying ember.”
– Harry Warren

“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”
– William Wordsworth

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
– John Donne

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
– Samuel Butler

“Is this not a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”
– George Eliot

“For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.”
– George Washington Cable

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Autumn. Time to dim the sunlight, cue the moody fog, and watch nature’s most charming story unfold.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

“The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”
– Andrea Gibson

“Autumn is a poem – while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.”
– Laura Chouette

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
– Rémy de Gourmont

Short Inspirational September Quotes for Your Letter Board

“It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air.”
– Carolyn Parkhurst

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg

“Let August be August. Let September be September.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“September is the other January.”
– Gretchen Rubin

“I love September, especially when we’re in it.”
– Willie Stargell

“But the days grow short when you reach September.”
– Maxwell Anderson

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul.”
– Peggy Toney Horton

“Sweet September Blessings! I am eternally grateful!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived.”
– Ann Rinaldi

“I guess I’m just feeling all September-ish…All the trees change color, the days get very clear.”
– George Selden

Want more uplifting inspiration and motivation for your fall season? Then check out these short September quotes, the short and inspirational fall quotes in this post and also the positive and beautiful October quotes here.