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The colors and the sun are clear. The flowers are in bloom. And the summer will be here soon.
It’s May.
And to help you welcome and celebrate this month, I want to share 75 of the most inspiring, funny and beautiful short quotes.
I hope these timeless statements will help you to have a happy and successful month with less stress and more fun.
And that you can use one or some of your favorites in a text or on your letterboard or social media such as Instagram to also brighten up someone else’s day.
Short inspiring May -Citates for your letterboard
“May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month hope.”
– Emily Brontë
“The favorite season of the world is spring. All things seem possible in May.”
– Edwin Way Teale
“May, more than every other month of the year, wants us to feel the most alive.”
– Fennel Hudson
“You are just as welcome as the flowers in May.”
– Charles Macklin
“The beautiful spring came; and when nature resumes its beauty, the human soul is also inclined to breathe new life into.”
– Harriet Ann Jacobs
“May: the lilac is in bloom. Forget yourself.”
– Marty Rubin
“May is the month, if not from fulfillment, at least of promise.”
– John Henry Newman
“Spring will come and so will be lucky. Wait a minute. Life will get warmer.”
– Anita Krizzan
“Let all your pleasures be like the month of May, and all your days are like a wedding day.”
– Francis Quarles
“Step aside to a brand new day. In the month of May I have the feeling that I can start again.”
– Mychal Simka
“I thought spring should take forever; for I was young and loved, and it was May.”
– Vera Brittain
“Rose from May, the sun that you wait for spring has come!”
-Irene Doura-Kavadia
“Then you have to remember to be grateful; but in May you just can’t help to be grateful that they live.”
– LM Montgomery
“What powerful blood has modest May.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make hay in May, because you may never know what June is going.”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“A flower blossoms for his own joy.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.”
– Alice Munro
“Being negative only makes a trip more difficult. You may get a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.”
– Joyce Meyer
“I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.”
– Kiera Cass
Short and beautiful May quotes to welcome this month
“Sweet can love us. Flowers, trees, their blossoms are not.”
– Heinrich Heine
“The month of May is the entrance gate until the summer.”
– Jean Hersey
“Under the changing months, May is the sweetest and dressed in the fairest colors.”
– James Thomson
“The month of May has come when every lusty heart starts to bloom and produce fruit.”
– Thomas Malory
“As full spirit as the month of May, and as beautiful as the sun in the midsummer.”
– William Shakespeare
“When the sun is out and the wind is quiet, you are in the middle of May for a month.”
– Robert Frost
“Under the apple blossoms I go in a winter way, for love that smiled in April is false for me in May.”
– Sara Teasdale
“May is green and pink and red.”
– Richard L. Ratliff
“And after the winter May folweth Grene.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer
“First night of May and the soft pure moon frightens her semicircle in nothing.”
– David Gray
“I have sunshine on a cloudy day. If it is cold outside, I will have the month of May.”
– Smokey Robinson
“The month of May is the pleasant time; the face is beautiful; the Blackbird sings its full song.”
– Lady Gregory
“May has decorated the world that we can bring the brave on the land or the glory of the sea to Memorial Day.”
– Annette Wynne
“Bright May afternoons, mango trees in the garden echoed with cuckoo assignments.”
– Meeta Ahluwalia
“The mornings in May, reflected with the call from Cuckoos, sunlight glowed through fresh green canals of trees.”
– Meeta Ahluwalia
“When April goes aside for May, such as diamonds, all rain is shimmering.”
– Lucy Larcom
“Winds of May dancing on the sea, dancing a ring in joy.”
– James Joyce
“Blossom through blooming starts.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Finally, the golden month came from the wild people-honey-sweet May, when the birds come back and the flowers come out.”
– Samuel Scoville Jr.
“Fair flowers jump under your ingenious jet, and sing a thousand happy birds, all welcome to you, May!”
– Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“Oh, it was sweet to think that might be ours again.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
“And a bird sang above the head 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
Short motivating May quotes for work
“May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with warm color.”
– Lillian Berliner
“By May the majority of the hardness of winter has passed. The air is clear and warm sunshine filters through the new leaves on the trees.”
– Ellen Jackson
“Keep your face in the sun and you can’t see a shade.”
– Helen Keller
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“May means eating long walks in the evening, where possible eating outside in the garden.”
– Sophie Morris
“It was outdoor detail – and May is a great month to work outside.”
– Stephen King
“What is as sweet and dear as a prosperous morning in May, the self -assured prime of the day.”
– William Watson
“Another May will bring new buttons and flowers: AH! Why doesn’t happiness have a second spring?”
– Charlotte Smith
“Together with the growing of May, the rain came.”
– Victoria Abbott Riccardi
“It is now May. It is the month in which nature has its filling of cheerfulness and the senses are filled with pleasures.”
– Nicholas Breton
“We know what we are, but don’t know what we can be.”
– William Shakespeare
“Never bend your head. Always keep it high. Look the world straight in the eyes.”
– Helen Keller
“Believe you can do it and you are halfway.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“You are never too old to set a different goal or to dream a new dream.”
– CS Lewis
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Despite the prediction, live like it for spring.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
Short and funny Hello May quotes
“May be sneezing for a month, itchy eyes and loops.”
– Ellen Jackson
“It is May, the lusty month of May, that sweet month when everyone throws away self -control.”
– Alan Jay Lerner
“Many people get angry in January. Not as much as in May, of course. Neither June.”
– Karen Joy Fowler
“May, queen of blossoms and fulfilling flowers, with what beautiful music will we charm the hours?”
– Edward Thurlow
“Queer things happen in the garden in May. There have been forgotten faces, and plants thought they were dead suddenly with a green hand to confuse you.”
– We Johns
“In the spring I counted 136 different species within 24 hours.”
– Mark Twain
“Horticultural, the month of May is opening evening, return home and special day in one.”
– Tam Mossman
“Oh, the month of May, the cheerful month of May. So quiet, so gay and so green, so green, so green!”
– Thomas Dekker
“Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.”
– Doug Larson
“It’s the month, the cheerful month. It’s the cheerful month of May.”
– Francis Thompson
“Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has been successful.”
– Marianne Van Hirtum
“Rough winds shake the sweet buttons of May, and the lease of the summer has too short date.”
– William Shakespeare
“We wander over the fields and the rivers when we were young and gay. We chased the bees and picked the flowers in the cheerful, cheerful month of May.”
– Stephen Foster
“Spring is a difficult act to follow, God created June.”
– Al Bernstein
“People ask me what I do in the winter if there is no baseball. I will tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
– Rogers Hornby
“Gardening requires a lot of water – most in the form of perspiration.”
– Louise Erickson
“Spring is the time of year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
– Charles Dickens
Do you want more uplifting inspiration for your spring? Then view these uplifting May quotes, the beautiful May quotes in this message and also with positive spring quitors and these with short spring quits.