Christmas is a time to slow down, reflect, recharge and reconnect with what matters the most to us.

It’s a time when families all over the world gather in the warmth and keep the cold and darkness of winter at bay. Sharing laughter, delicious meals and stories and memories.

And to help you make this Christmas a joyful one I’d like to share 101 of the most heartwarming, inspirational and funny Christmas quotes for family.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this year’s holiday an extra special and happy one for yourself and your family.

Heartwarming Christmas Quotes and Wishes for Family

“When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“Christmas works like glue; it keeps us all sticking together.”
– Rosie Thomas

“Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
– Augusta E. Rundel

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.”
– Andy Rooney

“Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.”
– Lenora Mattingly Weber

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
– Burton Hills

“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family.”
– Roberta Flack

“At Christmas, families come together like branches on a tree.”
– Karen Kostyla

“Christmas is a time when families unite, love multiplies and magic fills the air.”
– Caroline Kennedy

“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.”
– Wanda Hope Carter

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
– Marjorie Holmes

“No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given – when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.”
– Joan Winmill Brown

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”
– Charlie Brown (from the movie A Charlie Brown Christmas)

“Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
– Freya Stark

“From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.”
– Emily Matthews

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.”
– Bob Hope

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
– Peg Bracken

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
– Richard Paul Evans

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.”
– Carol Nelson

“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.”
– Deborah Whipp

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
– Clarence (from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life)

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
– Roy L. Smith

“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.”
– Tom Baker

“Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday, said Pooh. That’s my favorite kind, said Piglet.”
– A. A. Milne

Inspirational Christmas Quotes and Sayings for Family

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
– Mother Teresa

“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding more time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“The true Christmas spirit is putting others’ happiness before our own, and finding you’ve never known such happiness.”
– Toni Sorenson

“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.”
– David Cameron

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
– Ruth Carter Stapleton

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.”
– Agnes M. Pahro

“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
– Pope Francis

“Christmas is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”
– Norman Wesley Brooks

“Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.”
– Eric Sevareid

“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
– W.C. Jones

“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox: that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.”
– Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

“If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel Christmas all the time.”
– Faith Hill

“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
– Janice Maeditere

“Christmas Day is in our grasp, as long as we have hands to clasp! Christmas Day will always be, just as long, as we have we! Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
– W. T. Ellis

“Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
– Dale Evans

Funny Christmas Quotes for Family and Loved Ones

“There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.”
– Dan Florence

“It’s that special time of year when your whole family gathers together in one place to look at their cellphones.”
– Jimmy Kimmel

“Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge

“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”
– Dave Barry

“I hate the radio this time of year because they play ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.”
– Bridger Winegar

“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
– Robert Paul

“Adults can take a simple holiday for children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.”
– Erma Bombeck

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
– Garrison Keillor

“I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.”
– Henny Youngman

“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”
– Bob Phillips

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.”
– Dave Barry

“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.”
– Jim Gaffigan

“Friends are the family you choose, especially when they help you hide the evidence of Christmas shopping.”
– Sally Thorne

Short Christmas Quotes for Family and Your Letterboard

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.”
– Taylor Caldwell

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
– Kevin Alan Milne

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
– Alexander Smith

“Christmas is a tonic for our souls.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
– Valentine Davies

“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.”
– W.J. Cameron

“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.”
– Gladys Taber

“The best Christmas gift is to realize how much you already have.”
– Marie Kondo

“Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking.”
– Patricia Clafford

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
– David Ogden Stiers

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill

“Love the giver more than the gift.”
– Brigham Young

“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.”
– Ann Garnett Schultz

“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.”
– Charlotte Carpenter

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
– Harlan Miller

“No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas.”
– Dolly Parton

Cute Christmas Quotes for Family and a Happy Holiday

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal and that every path may lead to peace.”
– Agnes M. Pharo

“Christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime.”
– Zooey Deschanel

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde

“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”
– Joan Mills

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things, not the great occasions, give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
– Bob Hope

“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
– Thomas Tusser

“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry-making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”
– J. C. Penney

“The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.”
– Max Lucado

“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Christmas is a time to take stock of the good things in life.”
– Reese Witherspoon

“Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season to fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.”
– Julie Hebert

“The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
– Helen Keller

“We clap hands and welcome the peace of Christmas. We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.”
– Maya Angelou

“May this season find you among those you love, sharing in the twin glories of generosity and gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality.”
– Washington Irving

“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Christmas is a bridge of hope that connects yesterday’s memories with tomorrow’s dreams.”
– Mary Engelbreit

“May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter, and goodwill.”
– Martha Stewart

Want more uplifting and positive inspiration for your holidays? Then have a look at these short Christmas quotes, this one with inspirational Christmas quotes and also this post that’s filled with Christmas quotes for cards and your letterboard.

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.

It’s November. The leaves are mostly on the ground now. The crisp and chilly air hints at winter approaching.

The end of fall is a time of transition. Between seasons. Between work and holidays.

Between the beauty of autumn and the bareness and coldness of winter.

So to help you during this month I’d like to share 101 of the most uplifting, funny and inspirational short November quotes.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here for your letter board, Instagram and to make this a happy and inspired month for you.

Short Welcome November Quotes and Sayings for a Beautiful Month

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

“November is secret and silent.”
– Allison Uttley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Autumn is springtime in reverse.”
– Terri Guillemets

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

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

“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

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

Short and Uplifting November Quotes for Your Letter Board

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

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

“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.”
– Helen Keller

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

Funny and Short November Quotes for a Laugh (and Instagram)

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

“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October.”
– Henry Rollins

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”
– John Greenleaf Whittier

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

“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

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

“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
– Nora Ephron

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

“Sweater weather is always better together.”
– Unknown

“In November, some birds move away and some birds stay. The air is full of good-byes and well-wishes. The birds who are leaving look very serious. No silly spring chirping now.”
– Cynthia Rylant

Short Hello November Quotes for an Inspirational and Aesthetic Fall

“In autumn, change in life becomes as natural as the leaves turning red, yellow and brown.”
– Unknown

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills.”
– 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.”
– R.H. Stoddard

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
– George Eliot

“November woods are bare and still. November days are bright and good. Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill. Life’s night rests feet which long have stood.”
– Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson

“Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?”
– A Waltz for Zizi

“When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“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

“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

“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, web-winged and furious.”
– Sylvia Plath

“Autumn is marching on. Even the scarecrows are wearing dead leaves.”
– Otsuyu Nakagawa

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

“This is the month of nuts and nutty thoughts – that November whose name sounds so bleak and cheerless – perhaps its harvest of thought is worth more than all the other crops of the year.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“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

Motivational and Short November Quotes for Work

“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

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

“November is a month of transformation and preparation.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

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

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

“True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for the experience.’”
– Oprah Winfrey

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

“Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
– Amy Grant

“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence

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

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

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“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

“Let this be the November you always remember. The November you chose to believe there was more to your future than you were able to see.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“November is tied together with the heartstrings of gratitude.”
– J. A. McIntosh

“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”
– Truman Capote

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou

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

Want more inspiration for your end of autumn? Then have a look at these inspirational fall quotes, the funny autumn quotes here and also these positive quotes about life.

Working together can help us reach goals and dreams that are out of reach if we try to do it alone.

But working as a team in a smart and smooth way isn’t always easy.

We encounter setbacks, motivation and energy may sometimes run low and stress and pressure can throw a wrench into what was working well.

So in today’s post I’d like to help out with that and share 100 of the most positive, funny and motivational short teamwork quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to give you a jolt of new energy, a couple of laughs to release a bit of stress and then a renewed focus.

Short and Positive Teamwork Quotes on Successful Team Building

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.”
– Norman Shidle

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.”
– Barbara Glacel

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller

“A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler

“Many hands make light work.”
– John Heywood

“When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.”
– Ethiopian Proverb

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb

“A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.”
– Bill Bethel

“It takes two flints to make a fire.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.”
– Paul Solarz

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
– John Wooden

“Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference.”
– Alison Pincus

“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
– Biz Stone

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
– Babe Ruth

“The path to greatness is along with others.”
– Baltasar Gracian

Short and Motivational Teamwork Quotes for Work

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
– Vince Lombardi

“We rise by lifting others.”
– Robert Ingersoll

“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
– Lewis B. Ergen

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
– Henry Ford

“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”
– James Cash Penney

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
– Napoleon Hill

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– Michael Jordan

“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
– Steve Jobs

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
– Ken Blanchard

“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
– Iyanla Vanzant

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
– Virginia Burden

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
– H.E. Luccock

“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
– George Shinn

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington

“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
– Mattie Stepanek

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”
– John Maxwell

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
– Andrew Carnegie

“Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.”
– Becka Schoettle

Funny and Short Teamwork Quotes for Stress Relief

“Teamwork – a few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.”
– Larry Kersten

“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
– Jason Kidd

“Sure, there’s no ‘i’ in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an ‘e’.”
– Kevin Myers

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.”
– Edward Abbey

“Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us.”
– Dave Barry

“A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!”
– Bonnie Edelstein

“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”
– Lou Holtz

“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
– Thomas Sowell

“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.”
– Michael Winner

“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?”
– Matthew Woodring Stover

“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
– Lewis Grizzard

“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
– Unknown

“It’s called ‘teamwork’ but most of the time it’s everyone sitting around until one man does all the work.”
– Thomas Wilbur

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“Committee: A group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.”
– Fred Allen

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.”
– Jane Goodall

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

Short and Inspirational Teamwork Quotes on Great Leadership

“To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.”
– Christine Caine

“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
– Lee Iacocca

“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.”
– Patrick Lencioni

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check.”
– Steve Jobs

“It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman

“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
– Patrick Lencioni

“A team is not a group of people who work together but a team is a group of people who trust each other.”
– Simon Sinek

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”
– Reid Hoffman

“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”
– Simon Mainwaring

“What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.”
– Jean-Francois Cope

“A leader must inspire or his team will expire.”
– Orrin Woodward

“The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.”
– James Cash Penney

“Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well-motivated individual.”
– Bill Gates

“A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately.”
– David Packard

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team.”
– Knute Rockne

“True greatness is almost never achieved alone; behind it is most often a group of highly motivated people supporting each other.”
– Rip Miller

“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits.”
– Jim Stovall

Short and Hilarious Teamwork Quotes with Relatable Work Humor

“You think it’s dumb when someone says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but you stick one in there and you see how dumb that looks.”
– Brendan Kiely

“Teachers call it copying. We call it ‘teamwork’.”
– A Student

“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Francesca Elisia

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’”
– Don Marquis

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
– Steve Jobs

“Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train.”
– Jim Halpern

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Aim low, reach your goals and avoid disappointment.”
– Dilbert

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
– Aristotle

“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.”
– Slappy White

“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
– Ogden Nash

“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.”
– Henny Youngman

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
– Bette Midler

“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying.”
– Rita Rudner

“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
– Sarah Brown

“Success is just a matter of luck, ask any failure.”
– Earl Wilson

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin

“A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.”
– Mitchell Ratner

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

Want more motivation and laughs for work? Then have a look at these inspirational teamwork quotes, the short work quotes here and also this one with hilarious work quotes.

A breakup can feel like your whole world is falling apart.

You question everything (maybe yourself the most). You feel sick to your stomach and heartbroken.

You don’t know if you’ll ever feel whole, feel like yourself again.

To spark hope I’d like to share 120 of the most relatable, hopeful, positive and helpful breakup quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that will comfort you. Remind you that you are not alone on this journey.

And assure you that you can heal, move on and find happiness again.

Inspirational Breakup Quotes to Help You Heal from Heartbreak

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
– Patti Roberts

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
– Rick Riordan

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“The cure for a broken heart is self-love.”
– Jonathan Harnisch

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
– Jan Glidewell

“We too, like trees can shake off our dead leaves and begin again.”
– A.Y. Greyson

“The only way out is through.”
– Robert Frost

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein

“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”
– Lalah Delia

“Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength.”
– Karen Salmanson

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.”
– Lao Tzu

“That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”
– Robyn Schneider

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
– Rumi

“I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.”
– A. A. Milne

“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game.”
– Jim Butcher

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.”
– Tyrion Lannister

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
– Lauren Oliver

“It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit… and keep moving forward.”
– Randy Pausch

Breakup Quotes on Sad Feelings and New Beginnings

“Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again.”
– Amy Poehler

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
– Lord Byron

“When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut – it will heal, but there will always be a scar.”
– Soo Jie

“Don’t be sorry, be fierce.”
– RuPaul

“I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“I know my heart will never be the same. But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.”
– Sara Evans

“You will need to allow your mind to take it all in so that by the time you get back up on your feet, you know how you feel.”
– Lauren Conrad

“It’s so empowering to say, ‘This isn’t serving me,’ and walk away in peace.”
– Unknown

“Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.”
– Daphne Rose Kingma

“Just believe that the heartbreak was a gift in itself. Cry if you have to, but it won’t be forever! You will find love again, and it will be even more beautiful!”
– Rihanna

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
– Jean de La Fontaine

“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”
– Louise Erdrich

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.”
– Mary Oliver

“We’re all where we’re supposed to be. I am exactly where I want to be now. You can’t go backward.”
– Sandra Bullock

“You can’t move things by not moving.”
– Suzy Kassem

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
– Michael McMillian

“A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
– Jodi Picoult

“I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that’s being alone and being sad.”
– Ted Lasso

“I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate.”
– Nicole Kidman

“It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past.”
– Angelina Jolie

“One taught me love. One taught me patience. And one taught me pain. Now, I’m so amazing.”
– Ariana Grande

“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.”
– H.C. Paye

“Through it all, I have learned to laugh and cry and grow. I look at the woman I was in my 20s and I see a young lady growing into confidence.”
– Beyonce

“Don’t worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new storyline falls from the sky and lands right in your lap.”
– Rebekah Crane

Short Breakup Quotes on Being Deeply Hurt and Moving On

“I would rather have my heart broken a thousand times than never to love at all.”
– Cameron Diaz

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
– Melissa Marr

“If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did.”
– Sarah Dessen

“A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“We are never ever, ever getting back together.”
– Taylor Swift

“But every time you hurt me, the less that I cry.”
– Sam Smith

“You thought that I’d be weak without ya, but I’m stronger.”
– Destiny’s Child

“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do.”
– Venus Williams

“Moving on is not forgetting – moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.”
– Sam Madison

“Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
– Miss Piggy

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end.”
– Paulo Coelho

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”
– Sara Teasdale

“Gonna love myself, no, I don’t need anybody else.”
– Hailee Steinfeld

“Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.”
– Anne Hathaway

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
– Robert Brault

“This is the part of me that you’re never gonna ever take away from me, no!”
– Katy Perry

“Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.”
– Usher

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell

“You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.”
– Nikki Rowe

“You’re gonna make it after all.”
– The Mary Tyler Moore Show

“I’m breaking down, gonna start from scratch. Shake it off like an Etch-A-Sketch.”
– Fifth Harmony

“After all, tomorrow is another day.”
– Scarlett O’Hara

“The truth is, I should be angry, resentful and disillusioned about relationships. But I’m not.”
– Eva Longoria

“When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I love you, but I love me more.”
– Samantha (from the TV-show Sex and the City)

Deep and Relatable Breakup Quotes on Friendship and Love

“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.”
– Scott Stabile

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.”
– Alvy Singer

“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
– Graham Greene

“Stuart needs ‘space’ and ‘time,’ as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
– Kathryn Stockett

“You get through it. It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.”
– Ryan Phillippe

“I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.”
– Jennifer Love Hewitt

“I was so scared of ever being alone, and I think, conquering that fear, this year, was actually bigger than any other transition.”
– Miley Cyrus

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
– Michael Bassey Johnson

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
– Steve Maraboli

“You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties.”
– Taylor Swift

“I am beginning to feel like the only way to truly get over someone that you cared a lot about is to start a new chapter.”
– Mindy (from the TV-show The Mindy Project)

“Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks?”
– Anita Desai

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction.”
– Suzanne Collins

“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
– Santosh Kalwar

“Letting go is hard but being free is beautiful.”
– Wilder Poetry

“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting.”
– Rumi

“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
– Chico Xavier

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together.”
– Tupac Shakur

“The heart was made to be broken.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
– Nicholas Sparks

Break Up Quotes on Closure and a Positive New Chapter in Life

“It’s always darkest before the dawn.”
– Thomas Fuller

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”
– Maya Angelou

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
– Brian Tracy

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
– Maxim Gorky

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll

“I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is.”
– Hannah Brown

“Hope, Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“We’d always go into it blindly. I needed to lose you to find me.”
– Selena Gomez

“You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be OK on your own before you’re OK with someone else.”
– Jennifer Lopez

“I used to choose you and what you wanted. Now I choose me. Just me and what I want.”
– Unknown

“I’m just a masterpiece trying to master peace.”
– Dalai Aya

“Life has tried to break me, the wounds have not yet healed. But I am not a victim, never been and never will.”
– John Mark Green

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.”
– Frank Ocean

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Go back? No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.”
– Steve Maraboli

“The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
– William Faulkner

“The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.”
– Jim Rohn

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.”
– Mooji

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.”
– Herman Hesse

Want more inspiration and help? Then have a look at these self-love and self-esteem quotes, this post called The 12 Best Be Kind to Yourself Quotes (and Helpful Tips on Self-Love) plus this one with self-care quotes.