Summer Inspirational Quotes:

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

- Billy Graham

topic: Love, Summer, Flower, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

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 summer.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Summer, Sunshine, Tree, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Beautiful, Summer, June, Dreamy, Summer Garden

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

- Bar Refaeli

topic: Summer, Hands, Perfect, Summer Breeze, Summer Garden

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

- Henry James

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Time, Solstice, Late Summer

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. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

- Natalie Babbitt

topic: Summer, Spring, Sunset, Ferris Wheels, Summer Inspirational

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

- Anton Chekhov

source: 'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

topic: Happiness, Happy, Summer, Summer And Winter, Summer Garden

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Summer, Night, Perfection, Late Summer, Summer Breeze

A life without love is like a year without spring.

- Octavian Paler

topic: Spring, Love Is, Years, Spring Summer, Late Summer

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Summer, Conviction, Familiar, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Summer, Butterfly, June, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Love, Summer, Night, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Summer, Winter, Giving, Invincible Summer, Cold Weather

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Summer, Winter, Littles, Summer And Winter, Summer Inspirational

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

- Russell Baker

topic: Summer, Nature, Suffering, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

- Yoko Ono

topic: Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude, Spring Summer, Summer And Winter

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

- Sebastian Faulks

source: Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

topic: Summer, Wind, People, Summer Inspirational, Summer Sun

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Friendship, Summer, Grandmother, Friends Forever, Summer And Winter

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press

topic: Summer, Nature, Lying, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

- John Keats

topic: Love, Marriage, Summer, Summer Inspirational, Summer Love

In summer, the song sings itself.

- William Carlos Williams

source: William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.349, New Directions Publishing

topic: Summer, Song, Nature, Summer Flower, Summer Inspirational

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Summer, Breeze, Bachelors, Summer Breeze, Summer Inspirational

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

- Gertrude Jekyll

source: Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

topic: Summer, Time, Spring, Spring Gardening, Spring Summer

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

- Benjamin Alire Saenz

topic: Summer, Pain, Secret, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

source: Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Summer, Clothes, Drunk, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

- John Vance Cheney

source: John Vance Cheney (1922). “My Hearthside: Poems Written to Sally”

topic: Summer, Heart, Air, Summer Inspirational, Great Summer

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

- Patricia Briggs

source: Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.197, Penguin

topic: Summer, Mean, Winter, Summer And Winter, Summer Inspirational

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

- Bryan Procter

topic: Summer, Night, Light, Late Summer, Summer Breeze

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 country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

topic: Summer, Country, Flower, Ripening, Late Summer