I like short quotes that get right to the point.

So in today’s post I want to share 160 of the most powerful, meaningful and positive short quotes.

Ones that will give you a quick burst of inspiration to shift your mindset, renew your motivation, give you a laugh to release some stress or that will simply bring a smile to your face.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here for yourself and for the people you love.

Short and Positive Quotes About Life

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

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

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
– Mark Twain

“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
– Dalai Lama

“Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Simplicity makes me happy.”
– Alicia Keys

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”
– Lou Holtz

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
– Milton Erickson

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
– William Morris

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost

“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
– Omar Khayyam

Short Quotes for Work and a Quick Boost of Motivation

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”
– Frank Ocean

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson

“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden

“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
– John Keats

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
– Ralph Marston

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles

“All growth depends upon activity.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

Short, Deep and Meaningful Quotes and Sayings

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
– Jim Rohn

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin

“A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”
– John A. Shedd

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
– Lao Tzu

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
– Cesare Pavese

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
– Buddha

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
– Henrik Ibsen

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”
– Buddha

Short and Funny Quotes for a Laugh and Less Stress

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck

“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”
– Zach Galifianakis

“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
– Steven Wright

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
– A. A. Milne

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
– Cathy Guisewite

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2000 of something.”
– Mitch Hedberg

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

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir

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

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

“When in doubt, look intelligent.”
– Garrison Keillor

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

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain

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

“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
– Bill Murray

“I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
– Terry Pratchett

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
– W. C. Fields

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

Short and Inspirational Quotes About Love and Relationships

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Ernest H. Shepard

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan

“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.”
– Angelita Lim

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.”
– Rumi

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher

“I found the one my heart loves.”
– Song of Solomon 3:4

“Everything I do, I do it for you.”
– Bryan Adams

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you.”
– William Shakespeare

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings

“You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
– Taylor Swift

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Barret Browning

“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault

“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth

“For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.”
– Andrew McMahon

“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
– Leo Christopher

Short Quotes About Success and Living Your Best Life

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Herman Cain

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
– Albert Einstein

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
– Bruce Feirstein

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
– George Sheehan

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
– Mark Caine

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

Want more short and powerful inspiration? Then check out these short happy quotes, the short love quotes here and also this post filled with short and motivational work quotes.

Actually going to the gym or the running trail consistently is one of those things that are easier in theory than reality.

It can be tough to keep showing up when motivation or the weather is not on your side.

To help you out with that I’d like to share 101 of the most powerful, positive, funny and motivational workout quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that will give you a boost, get you up from a slump or the couch and out the door.

Motivational Workout Quotes for the Success YOU Want

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
– Michal Joan Bobak

“Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow.”
– Jay Cutler

“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.”
– Robert Tew

“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”
– Rikki Rogers

“Discipline is doing what you hate to do but doing it like you love it.”
– Mike Tyson

“I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.”
– Muhammad Ali

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
– Jim Rohn

“The real workout begins when you want to stop.”
– Ronnie Coleman

“The body achieves what the mind believes.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
– Michael Jordan

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
– Tommy Lasorda

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
– Vince Lombardi Jr.

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’”
– Muhammad Ali

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

Inspirational Workout Quotes for Women by Women

“Isn’t life about determining your own finish line? The journey has always been about reaching your own other shore, no matter what it is, and the dream continues.”
– Diana Nyad

“You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!”
– Aly Raisman

“We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give.”
– Simone Biles

“I love how I look. I am a full woman and I’m strong, and I’m powerful, and I’m beautiful at the same time.”
– Serena Williams

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
– Billie Jean King

“Overpower. Overtake. Overcome.”
– Serena Williams

“The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.”
– Jackie Joyner Kersee

“Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed.”
– Misty Copeland

“There is always going to be a reason why you can’t do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.”
– Shannon Miller

“I think it’s good to see somebody saying: I have a belly. And I have cellulite. And I still deserve love.”
– Amy Schumer

“It’s going to be a journey. It’s not a sprint to get in shape.”
– Kerri Walsh Jennings

“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will.”
– Venus Williams

“Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.”
– Serena Williams

“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”
– Mia Hamm

“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To think only the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.”
– Emma Coburn

“I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.”
– Simone Biles

“There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.”
– Mia Hamm

“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Don’t train to be skinny. Train to be a bad ass.”
– Demi Lovato

“I train to be the best in the world on my worst day.”
– Ronda Rousey

“Always work hard and have fun in what you do, because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.”
– Simone Biles

“Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.”
– Khloe Kardashian

Short Workout Quotes for Your Instagram

“The hardest part is over. You showed up.”
– Jess Sims

“Never give up because great things take time.”
– Adrian Williams

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
– Estee Lauder

“Don’t count the days; make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“No pain, no gain.”
– Unknown

“Be savage, not average.”
– Cody Rigsby

“Your mind is your strongest muscle.”
– Tunde Oyeneyin

“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
– Jim Ryun

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
– Lance Armstrong

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
– Japanese Proverb

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.”
– Fred Devito

“There’s no talent here; this is hard work. This is an obsession.”
– Conor McGregor

“The barbell doesn’t lie. You’re either getting stronger, or you’re not. There’s no hiding from it.”
– Mark Rippetoe

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”
– George Halas

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“I am. I can. I will. I do.”
– Christine D’Ercole

“Your passion will propel you.”
– Alex Toussaint

“A goal is a wish. A standard holds you accountable.”
– Tunde Oyeneyin

“You’ve survived 100 percent of your worst days.”
– Robin Arzon

Funny Workout Quotes to Help You Release a Bit of Stress and Pressure

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.”
– Joan Rivers

“Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you’ve got to squeeze your buns. That’s my formula.”
– Richard Simmons

“I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.”
– Muhammad Ali

“Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy and fat.”
– Jill Johnson

“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don’t nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weights.”
– Ronnie Coleman

“The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph.’”
– Marvin Phillips

“The most annoying are those people in exceptionally good shape at the gym. I’m like, ‘What are you doing here? You’re done.’”
– Jim Gaffigan

“Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don’t mind, so it doesn’t matter.”
– Adam Hargreaves

“You shall gain, but you shall pay with sweat, blood and vomit.”
– Pavel Tsatsouline

“I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist.”
– Shaquille O’Neal

“I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happier with buns of cinnamon.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.”
– Unknown

Positive Morning Workout Quotes

“You did not wake up today to be mediocre.”
– Robin Arzon

“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Think of your workouts as important meetings you schedule with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel.”
– Unknown

“If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren’t willing to do.”
– Michael Phelps

“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.”
– Erin Gray

“We must appreciate and never underestimate our own inner power.”
– Noah Galloway

“Do or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda (from Star Wars)

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
– Zoey Sayward

“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together, and you’ve got a kingdom.”
– Jack LaLanne

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?”
– Greg Plitt

“Exercise is labor without weariness.”
– Samuel Johnson

“A fit, healthy body – that is the best fashion statement.”
– Jess C. Scott

“Most people give up right before the big break comes. Don’t let that person be you.”
– Michael Boyle

“The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body and polish the spirit.”
– Morihei Ueshiba

“Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.”
– Jack LaLanne

“Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.”
– Vincent Williams Sr.

“The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.”
– Mark Rippetoe

“Blood, sweat and respect. First two you give. Last one you earn.”
– The Rock

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

Want more motivation for your day? Then check out these short and deep motivational quotes, this one with motivation for working hard and smart and also this post with daily quotes for positive inspiration.

It’s September.

The month that brings mixed feelings and colors as the sunny and warm days of summer fade out and are replaced with crisp autumn air, chilly rains and the regular days of work or school.

To help you welcome and make the most of this fall transition I’d like to share 100 of the most powerful, beautiful and positive short September quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a motivated and successful month and a happy and fun one filled with more laughter and less stress.

Short and Inspirational September Quotes and Sayings

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Motivational September Quotes for Work

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

“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

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

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

“The window is open, admitting the September breeze: A month that smells like notebook paper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress and moving on.”
– Lauren Oliver

“September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion.”
– Patience Strong

“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

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

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
– Henry Ford

“September is the other January.”
– Gretchen Rubin

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

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

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
– Dolly Parton

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

Funny Short September Quotes (Great for Your Letter Board)

“My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.”
– Groucho Marx

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
– Winnie the Pooh

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

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

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

Short Hello September Quotes to Welcome a Beautiful Fall

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

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

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

“Let August be August. Let September be September. Let yourself just be even in the uncertainty.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, So good to me, so right.”
– Taylor Swift

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“I guess I’m just feeling all September-ish… All the trees change color, the days get very clear – with little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.”
– George Selden

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter.”
– George Arnold

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

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

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

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

“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

“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
– Delia Owens

Short September Quotes for a Happy New Month and Your Instagram

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

“There is a clarity about September.”
– Faith Baldwin

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

“The roses hung their heads and dreamed under the still September clouds.”
– E.L. Voynich

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

“The old summer’s-end melancholy nips at my heels.”
– Sara Baume

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples.”
– Monty Don

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

“Tonight I miss you like the sky misses his moon; a delicate epiphany growing on grass.”
– Avijeet Das

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

“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
– Unknown

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

“Time turns flames to embers, You’ll have new Septembers, Everyone of us has messed up too.”
– Taylor Swift

“But now in September, the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness.”
– Robert Finch

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

“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.”
– Sharyn McCrumb

“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

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

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

“Let this be the September you always remember.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

Want more inspiration and motivation for your autumn? Then have a look at these short fall quotes, the beautiful October quotes here plus these uplifting quotes on autumn and change.