It’s May.
Filled with the vibrant energy and colors of spring. And with promises of summer that will soon be here.
It’s one of my favorite months as the days are now long and warm and it feels much easier to find motivation and new energy compared to the dark and cold winter months. And the temperature here in Sweden tends to be really nice, somewhere between spring and summer.
To celebrate this lovely month I’d like to share 101 of the most inspirational, motivational, funny and beautiful May quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to help you welcome May and make it into a happy and great month for you.
Inspirational and Positive May Quotes
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”
– Edwin Way Teale
“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.”
– Fennel Hudson
“It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights. I conclude it is from the Heavens, a grace, and to Earth, a gladness.”
– Nicholas Breton
“May then is the month, if not of fulfillment, at least of promise.”
– John Henry Newman
“May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope.”
– Emily Brontë
“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can’t help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else.”
– L. M. Montgomery
“I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May.”
– Vera Brittain
“Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.”
– James Thomson
“Sweet May hath come to love us. Flowers, trees, their blossoms don.”
– Heinrich Heine
“New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.”
– April Mae Monterrosa
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
– Malala Yousafzai
“At last came the golden month of the wild folk – honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.”
– Samuel Scoville Jr.
“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May.”
– Smokey Robinson
“The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.”
– Lady Gregory
“May, it’s full of all the things that make spring and the brighter part of the year so special. Flowers bud, the sun shines, and new seeds are sewn into the fabric of our lives. May is awesome.”
– Jenna Danchuk
“May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year. Along the eastern corridors, she walks. What time the clover rocks the earliest bee. Her feet a flush with sunrise, and her veil floating in breezy odors o’er her hair.”
– Thomas Buchanan Read
“Where shall we keep the holiday and duly greet the entering May?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational May Quotes for Work and Success
“Step aside to a brand new day. In the month of May, I feel I can start again. Life is feeling new. This is hope. This is love. This is where we all won.”
– Mychal Simka
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.”
– Helen Keller
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
– Harriet Ann Jacobs
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
– Estee Lauder
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”
– Roy T. Bennett
“A great difference between ‘May’ and ‘Day’ is the ‘M’ and ‘D!’ Be a good managing director of your life each day in May.”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
– Alexander the Great
“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”
– Marie Curie
“Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.”
– Edgar Guest
“Make hay in May for you may never know what June is coming with and you may never know what July will present! When you see May, make hay!”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
– Susan J. Bissonnette
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”
– Maya Angelou
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”
– Demi Lovato
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
Funny May Quotes for Laughs and Stress Relief
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course, nor June.”
– Karen Joy Fowler
“May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes and runny noses.”
– Ellen Jackson
“You can have all the rest of the year if you will give me April and May.”
– Spanish proverb
“It’s May, the lusty month of May, that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.”
– Alan Jay Lerner
“Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, homecoming, and graduation day all rolled into one.”
– Tam Mossman
“The flowers that should bloom in the month of May, every one of them came on an April day! And they looked for April showers in vain, but all through May it did nothing but rain!”
– Carolyn Wells
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’”
– Robin Williams
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
– Doug Larson
“May is a pious fraud of the almanac, A ghastly parody of real spring.”
– James Russell Lowell
“Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.”
– Marianne van Hirtum
“But winter lingering chills the lap of May.”
– Oliver Goldsmith
“In the suburbs of Delaware, spring meant not young love and damp flowers but an ugly divorce from winter and a second marriage to buxom summer.”
– Andrew Sean Greer
“When the sun is out and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May.”
– Robert Frost
“P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?”
– Kiera Cass
“Marry in the month of May, and you’ll surely rue the day. Married when bees o’er May blossoms flit, strangers around your board will sit.”
– New Zealand Proverb
“Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything’s dying.”
– George Carlin
“Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
– Charles Dickens
Beautiful May Quotes to Welcome This Month
“In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down.”
– Haruki Murakami
“Prose and drama are well enough for winter, but when nature swells the darling buds of May, my spirit craves three things: poetry, painting, and love.”
– Joan Smith
“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”
– William Shakespeare
“In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.”
– Heinrich Heine
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare
“By May, most of the harshness of winter has passed. The sky is bright, and warm sunshine filters through the new leaves on the trees.”
– Ellen Jackson
“May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with warm color. The flowers and trees are in full bloom, and even the sun joins this rhapsody be emitting warmer rays.”
– Lillian Berliner
“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.”
– Marcel Proust
“May means long walks in the evenings, eating outside in the garden whenever possible, and lots of healthy, fresh salads to use up all the lovely summer veg that’s available.”
– Sophie Morris
“Bright May afternoons, mango trees in the garden echoed with cuckoo calls.”
– Meeta Ahluwalia
“When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the rain drops glisten, fresh violets open every day: to some new bird each hour we listen.”
– Lucy Larcom
“Yes, it is May! Though not that the young leaf pushes its velvet out of the sheath, that the stubbornest sprays are beginning to bourgeon, larks responding aloft to the mellow flute of the bluebird, nor that song and sunshine and odors of life immingled even as wines in a cup.”
– Bayard Taylor
“Along with the greening of May came the rain. Then the clouds disappeared, and a soft pale lightness fell over the city as if Kyoto had broken free of its tethers and lifted up toward the sun.”
– Victoria Abbott Riccardi
“And a bird overhead sang follow, and a bird to the right sang here. And the arch of the leaves was hollow, and the meaning of May was clear.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Warm, wild, rainy wind, blowing fitfully, stirring dreamy breakers on the slumberous May sea. What shall fail to answer thee? What thing shall withstand the spell of thine enchantment, flowing over sea and land?”
– Celia Thaxter
“The flowry May, who from her green lap, throws the yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire mirth and youth and warm desire. Woods and groves are of thy dressing. Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.”
– John Milton
“Fair flowers are springing beneath thy genial ray, and thousand happy birds are singing, all welcome to thee, May!”
– Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“Beneath the apple blossoms, I go a wintry way, for love that smiled in April is false to me in May.”
– Sara Teasdale
“Another May, new buds and flowers shall bring. Ah! Why has happiness no second spring?”
– Charlotte Smith
“We roamed the fields and riversides when we were young and gay. We chased the bees and plucked the flowers in the merry, merry month of May.”
– Stephen Foster
“It was the month of May, the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trusts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.”
– Thomas Malory
Short Hello May Quotes
“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.”
– Alice Munro
“The month of May is the gateway to summer.”
– Jean Hersey
“The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.”
– Thomas Malory
“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.”
– Marty Rubin
“I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.”
– Kiera Cass
“As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.”
– Richard Barnfield
“First night of May and the soft-silvered moon frightens her semicircle in the blue.”
– David Gray
“And after winter folweth grene May.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer
“What potent blood hath modest May.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“May! Queen of blossoms, and fulfilling flowers, with what pretty music shall we charm the hours?”
– Baron Thurlow
“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer!”
– Gustav Mahler
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
– Oscar Wilde
“What is so sweet and dear as a prosperous morn in May, the confident prime of the day.”
– William Watson
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May, and all thy days be as a marriage day.”
– Francis Quarles
“Rose of May, the sun that you are waiting for spring has come!”
– Irene Doura-Kavadia
“It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May.”
– Francis Thompson
“May is a month of rebirth, of renewed vitality and energy.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“I’m only wishing to go a-fishing. For this, the month of May was made.”
– Henry van Dyke
“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”
– Thomas Tusser
“O, the month of May, the merry month of May. So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!”
– Thomas Dekker
“Therefore all ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May.”
– Le Morte d’Arthur
“You are as welcome as the flowers in May.”
– Charles Macklin
