November is at the door.

The month that can’t quite decide if it’s fall or already winter, when the days grow shorter and shorter and Thanksgiving stress may start to creep up.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 47 of the most hilarious, positive and funny November quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that’ll give you a few good laughs, reduce some of that holiday stress and help you to make this a happy fall month.

Funny November Quotes That Will Make You Smile

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

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

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

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

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

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

“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November!”
– Thomas Hood

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

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

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

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

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

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

“When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

Funny November Quotes for a Happy Thanksgiving

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.”
– Rita Rudner

“I like football. I find it’s an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
– Craig Ferguson

“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 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 come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

“Thanksgiving… that is all about overeating. One of the main dishes is actually called ‘stuffing.’ Stuffing? What names did they turn down? ‘Cram-it-in?’ ‘Eat-till-you-can’t-breathe?’”
– Jim Gaffigan

“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Cooking tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck

“My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.”
– Rita Rudner

“Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.”
– Lorelai Gilmore (from the TV-show The Gilmore Girls)

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

Hilarious November Quotes for a Fun Fall Month

“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

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“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

“On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment – halftime.”
– George Will

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

“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

“The meal isn’t over when I’m full. The meal is over when I hate myself.”
– Louis C.K.

“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”
– Erma Bombeck

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields

“If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Someone needs to tell the turkey, ‘Man, just be yourself.’”
– Mitch Hedberg

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

Want more inspiration and laughs for November and the holiday season? Then check out these inspirational November quotes, the short and uplifting November quotes in this post and also this one with funny Thanksgiving quotes.

Work can be a lot of things.

Fun and exciting. Hopefully rewarding at times.

But also quite often overwhelming and needing more motivation than you may feel you can muster.

So in today’s post I want to share 120 of the most powerful, motivational, funny and positive work quotes.

I hope these timeless thoughts will give you a boost of energy, refuel your motivation and give you a couple of good laughs if you feel a bit stressed or under pressure right now.

Positive Work Quotes for Quick Motivation Right Now

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

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.”
– Ralph Marston

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

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

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

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

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”
– Lou Holtz

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

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

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

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

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”
– Benjamin E. Mays

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney

Short Positive Work Quotes for a Great Day

“Work hard. Be kind.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Focus on the good.”
– Zig Ziglar

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

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin

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

“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden

“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
– John Keats

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

“Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”
– Jim Rohn

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

“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Do or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda

“The harder I work the more I live.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Impossible is just an opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho

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

“Make it happen.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs

“Create your future.”
– Peter F. Drucker

“Dream bigger.”
– Tony Hsieh

“Attitude is everything.”
– Charles Swindoll

Funny and Positive Work Quotes for a Laugh and Stress Relief

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”
– Reba McEntire

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates

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

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar

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

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.”
– Betty Reese

“Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
– Bill Gates

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
– Robert Orben

“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

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

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

“I am an early bird and a night owl. So I am wise, and I have worms.”
– Michael Scott (from the TV-show The Office)

“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.”
– Billie Burke

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
– Mark Twain

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

“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”
– Henry Kissinger

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

“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”
– Steven Wright

“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.”
– Stanley J. Randall

Positive Hard Work Quotes to Help You Make Your Dreams Real

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

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
– Pele

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

“The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.”
– Gabby Douglas

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
– Kobe Bryant

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
– Stephen King

“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”
– Michael Jordan

“I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you.”
– Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
– Colin Powell

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne Johnson

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
– Charles Kingsleigh

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
– Henry Ford

“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles

“The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.”
– Deepika Padukone

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
– Michelangelo

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

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.”
– Thomas Edison

“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
– Malcolm Forbes

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell

Positive Work Quotes for Setbacks and Those Tough Days in Life

“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
– Winston Churchill

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been
trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

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

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
– Walter Elliot

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
– Albert Einstein

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
– Helen Keller

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
– Arianna Huffington

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
– Charles R. Swindoll

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
– Thomas Edison

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
– Dale Carnegie

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.“
– Napoleon Hill

“Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.”
– Seneca

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Dr. Robert Schuller

Positive Work Quotes for Success and Living Your Best Life

“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

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
– David Bly

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

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

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
– Arthur Ashe

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

“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
– Virat Kohli

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
– Booker T. Washington

“All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.”
– Eric Thomas

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

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
– Jim Rohn

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein

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

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbara

“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”
– Steve Jobs

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.”
– Zig Ziglar

Want more motivation for work? Then check out these hard work quotes, the hilarious work quotes for less stress here and also these short and inspirational 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.

A new morning is here.

And to help you to make it a good one even though you may at first feel a bit unmotivated or tired I’d like to share 125 of the most inspirational, funny and positive good morning quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that will help you to start your day on an uplifting note. With a laugh or two to release some stress.

And to recharge your energy so you can go after your goals and dreams with renewed motivation and make this a successful day.

Positive Good Morning Quotes for a Great Start to Your Day

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

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
– Paul Henderson

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

“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

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

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
– Lemony Snicket

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

“Every day brings new choices.”
– Martha Beck

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
– Mark Twain

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
– Yoko Ono

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

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
– J. B. Priestley

“When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
– John Lennon

“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.”
– Malak El Halabi

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Every morning is a beautiful morning.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson

Positive and Motivational Good Morning Quotes for Work

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
– Billy Wilder

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Horace Lorimer

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
– Lao Tzu

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
– Richard Whately

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

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

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life.”
– Victor Hugo

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.”
– Barack Obama

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
– David Allen

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Funny and Positive Good Morning Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”
– Nanea Hoffman

“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
– Jim Davis

“Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning, the devil says, ‘Awe shit, they’re up.’”
– Dwayne Johnson

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?”
– Oscar Nunez

“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

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
– Glen Cook

“Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.”
– Tony Smite

“I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning, and there I am, just laughing my head off.”
– Bruce Willis

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
– Cary Grant

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
– Robert Orben

“I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.”
– Terri Guillemets

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.”
– Ernie Banks

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker

Beautiful and Positive Good Morning Quotes Filled With Inspiration

“I used to love night best, but the older I get, the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.”
– Kirsten Zambucka

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
– Bruce Lee

“My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.”
– Mavis Staples

“The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.”
– S. Ajna

“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
– Larry King

“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.”
– Jim Carrey

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
– Larry Page

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

Positive Good Morning Quotes for Him or Her (Cute Messages of Love & Support)

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
– Kiersten White

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I’ll be happy for the rest of my little life.”
– Charlotte Eriksson

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
– Emily Dickinson

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s OK with them.”
– Alain de Botton

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

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“I never want to stop making memories with you.”
– Pierre Jeanty

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.”
– Walter Winchell

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
– Wayne Dyer

“How do you spell love? You don’t spell it. You feel it.”
– A. A. Milne

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
– Thomas S. Monson

Short and Positive Good Morning Quotes and Sayings

“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“One day you will wake up, and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
– William Arthur Ward

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
– Colin Powell

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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

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

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
– Mother Teresa

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
– Marilyn Monroe

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

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– Charlie Chaplin

“In one minute, you can change your attitude, and in that minute, you can change your entire day.”
– Spencer Johnson

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset, and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it.”
– Cheryl Strayed

“The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the Sun, and burn.”
– William C. Hannan

“Morning not only forgives, it forgets.”
– Marty Rubin

“Someday is not a day of the week.”
– Denise Brennan-Nelson

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
– J.M. Power

Want more inspiration for your morning and day? Then check out these short good morning quotes, the funny good morning quotes here and also these uplifting and motivational quotes of the day.

Autumn is here with all its leaves in different colors. With crisp days and dark nights.

With cozy sweaters and plenty of cups of tea while watching the rain drizzle outside.

It’s also a time to find new motivation and energy for this season.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most beautiful, positive, funny and inspirational fall quotes.

I hope this one will help you to have a happy, less stressful and more successful fall season.

Inspirational Fall Quotes for a Happy Season

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

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

“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”
– Lee Maynard

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Motivational and Positive Fall Quotes for Work and Autumn Success

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

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

“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 first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.”
– J. L. Carr

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

“Autumn embraces change, even as she is falling to pieces.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

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

“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”
– Ruth Ahmed

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.”
– Rumi

“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

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

“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

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

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

Funny Fall Quotes for Laughs and Stress Relief

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

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

“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
– P.D. James

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

“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

“Sweater weather is better together.”
– Unknown

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

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

“Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!”
– Billy Butcherson (from the movie Hocus Pocus)

“Never trust the living.”
– Beetlejuice

“If you’ve got it, haunt it.”
– Rose Pressey

“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.”
– Gomez (from the movie The Addams Family)

“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.”
– Jay Hawkins

“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
– Brackett, Halloween

“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus (from the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin)

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

“I’m guessing Angela’s the one in the neighborhood who gives the trick-or-treaters some toothbrushes. Pennies. Walnuts.”
– Pam Beasley (from the TV-show The Office)

“A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!”
– Marilyn Monroe

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

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

“I’m your number one fan.”
– Annie Wilkes (from the movie Misery)

Aesthetic and Cute Fall Quotes to Welcome the Season (Great for Instagram)

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

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

“Days decrease, and autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
– Robert Browning

“And I rose. In rainy autumn. And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
– Dylan Thomas

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

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

“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”
– Faith Baldwin

“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”
– Ann Drake

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

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

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

“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.”
– Laura Jaworski

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

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

“Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”
– Mehmet Murat Idles

“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.”
– Malcolm Lowry

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

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

“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
– Diana Gabaldon

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
– Rainbow Rowell

“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

“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.”
– Unknown

Short Inspirational Fall Quotes for Your Letterboard

“See it, smell it, taste it, and forget the time of day or year. Autumn needs no clock or calendar.”
– Hal Borland

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
– Elizabeth Bowen

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

“But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.”
– Frank Sinatra

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

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

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

“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.”
– Yoko Ono

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.”
– Walt Whitman

“By all these lovely tokens September days are here.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson

“Nature’s first green is gold.”
– Robert Frost

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

“My favorite color is October.”
– Unknown

“O Autumn, Autumn! O pensive light and wistful sound!”
– Effie Lee Newsome

“I come by light of an autumn moon.”
– Broken Bells

“The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.”
– John Muir

“Let it go.”
– Unknown

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

“A friend you are, sweet autumn day; to never falter, in my soul you stay.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

Want more inspiration for your fall and the rest of the year? Then check out these short fall quotes, the inspirational September quotes here, the short September quotes in this one and also these uplifting and beautiful October quotes.

August is here with plenty of hot and lazy days in the sun.

But it’s also a transitional period when summer soon is coming to a close and work and schools are starting again.

In today’s post I want to simply share 80 of the most positive, funny and beautiful short August quotes.

I hope these quick but powerful sayings will help you to make the most of these warm August days and the last of your summer.

Short August Quotes for The Last Days of Summer

“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
– Sara Baume

“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.”
– Mary Oliver

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
– Natalie Babbitt

“The quiet August noon has come. A slumberous silence fills the sky. The winds are still, the trees are dumb. In glassy sleep, the waters lie.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.”
– Rolf van der Wind

“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.”
– Victoria Erickson

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath

“August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children.”
– Viktor N?krasov

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.”
– William Faulkner

“One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.”
– Tove Jansson

“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman

“My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.”
– Rick Bass

“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.”
– Melanie Gideon

“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time.”
– Taylor Swift

“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze.”
– Rasmenia Massoud

“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer.”
– Denis Mackail

“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”
– Henry Rollins

“The sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
– Stephen King

Positive and Short August Quotes and Sayings for a Happy Month

“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”
– Denise Levertov

“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han

“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.”
– Gladys Taber

“The weather is great, and the sun is always out in August.”
– Anna Scott

“August is for changes and strength.”
– Luke Hamlet

“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent.”
– Meka Boyle

“The brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.”
– Helen M. Winslow

“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation.”
– Max Heindel

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.”
– Kent Nerburn

“Every year I go to Denver, usually between June and August. I hire a car and head up to the Rocky Mountain National Park, about a three-hour drive. It’s my idea of heaven on earth.”
– Gavin Esler

“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“August is ripening grain in the fields, vivid dahlias fling, huge tousled blossoms through gardens, and Joe Pye weed dusts the meadow purple.”
– Jean Hersey

“August breeze – perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.”
– Meeta Ahluwalia

“That August time, it was a delight to watch the red moons wane to white.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer, and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.”
– Ik Marvel

“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“August is the month of the high sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease.”
– John Burroughs

“People don’t notice if it’s August or December when they are happy.”
– Anthony Mill

“Take me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

Funny and Short August Quotes for Your Instagram or Letter Board

“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”
– Sue Monk Kidd

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker

“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.”
– Crestless Wave

“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.”
– Pat Conroy

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
– Earl Wilson

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.”
– Jane Smiley

“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong.”
– Alice Hoffman

“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”
– Henry Rollins

“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.”
– Joseph Epstein

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent

“The August sun, God’s blood blister.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“Sometimes August isn’t recognized until December.”
– Meka Boyle

“It’s part of the American experience. We deal with mosquitoes in August.”
– Monica Hesse

“To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say, calm down! It’s August.”
– Unknown

“August is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.”
– Mak Cov

“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell

“The English winter ending in July to recommence in August.”
– Lord Byron

“One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.”
– George Carlin

Short and Beautiful August Quotes on the Magic of End of Summer

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.”
– Tove Jansson

“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”
– Lauren Oliver

“The August cloud melts into streams of rain.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.”
– Ray Bradbury

“August is the month when wars start. It’s when the water dries up, and the spirit begins to wither.”
– Al Aronowitz

“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.”
– Thomas Tusser

“The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”
– Garth Brooks

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there, a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.”
– Robert Lowell

“In the mute August afternoon, they trembled to some undertune of music in the silver air.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“When August days are hot and dry, I won’t sit by and sigh or die, I’ll get my bottle on the sly, and go ahead, and fish, and lie.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, and reeking manure.”
– Colette

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens

“How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.”
– Thom Gunn

“August evenings are especially stricken with melancholy – as if the ghosts of all past summers came rushing to haunt my heart.”
– Letters of Summer Past

“Smell brings to mind a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.”
– Diane Ackerman

“For the rest of the vacation, there was hardly a day when they did not go up to it. Preferably in the long, smoky, delicious August evenings when the white moths sailed over the tansy plantation.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery

“In an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.”
– Kelsey Brickl

“Around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars.”
– Elizabeth Enright

“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight like a spy through the ripening countryside.”
– Sarah Orne Jewett

“Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.”
– Sue Hubbell

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”
– E.B. White

Want more inspiration for this part of the summer? Then have a look at these inspirational August quotes, the end of summer quotes in this post and also these short summer quotes.