August has arrived.
With days that are still warm and sunny but also with a bittersweet end of summer in sight and autumn waiting around the corner.
So in today’s post I want to share 101 of the most beautiful, funny and inspirational August quotes.
To help you make the most of this last part of summer and as you’re going back to work or school.
I hope you’ll find something motivational, uplifting and positive here.
Inspirational August Quotes for a Positive and Joyful Month
“The arrival of August means that summer is drawing to a close, and that’s exactly why it should be embraced.”
– Amanda McArthur
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.”
– Tove Jansson
“May your month of August be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.”
– Unknown
“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.”
– Mary Oliver
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.”
– Jenny Han
“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
“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, 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
“Good things are going to happen. Welcome, August!”
– Unknown
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
– Sara Baume
“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
“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation… for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.”
– Max Heindel
“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”
– Henry Rollins
“August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear – the first sign of advancing autumn.”
– Viktor Nakrasov
“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
“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.”
– Meka Boyle
“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
“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
“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”
– Rasmenia Massoud
“Welcome, August! A bounty of beautiful beginnings and neverending blessings.”
– Unknown
“The west coast of Corsica on a boat in August is probably as beautiful as it gets.”
– Antoine Arnault
“May-August wind blows you in the right direction.”
– De philosopher DJ Kyos
“Happy people are the best, and August is the month of the happiest people.”
– Unknown
“In August, everything looks possible.”
– Erin Mcgown
Beautiful August Quotes on This Time of the Summer (Great for Instagram)
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”
– Denise Levertov
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
“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
“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.”
– Gladys Taber
“The August cloud melts into streams of rain.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“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
“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“That August time it was delight. To watch the red moons wane to white.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
“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
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath
“August breeze – perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.”
– Meeta Ahluwalia
“It was August, and the fields were high with corn. In the orchard the last of the peaches clung to their branches and the apples were showing their first pinkish blush.”
– Melanie Gideon
“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
“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
“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”
– Sue Monk Kidd
“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
“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time, ‘Cause it was never mine.”
– Taylor Swift
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman
“The August sun is pouring on the land. His scorching rays and vegetation stands, beseeching to the skies for showers again, and being answered like the prayers of men.”
– Edward Blair
“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
“I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me. Although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.”
– Siri Hustvedt
“In the mute August afternoon, they trembled to some undertune of music in the silver air.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer.”
– Denis Mackail
“August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.”
– Henry Rollins
“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
“Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there’s a star called Aldebaran? And that 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
“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
Funny August Quotes for Stress Relief
“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
“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year’s resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.”
– Crestless Wave
“The English winter ending in July to recommence in August.”
– Lord Byron
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”
– Henry Rollins
“To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say, calm down! It’s August.”
– Unknown
“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.”
– Alice Hoffman
“I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year.”
– Bridget Willard
“Don’t blame the holidays. You were already overweight in August.”
– Unknown
“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.”
– Pat Conroy
“August is a wicked month.”
– Edna O’Brien
“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
“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
“August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.”
– Ichiro Suzuki
“August is the Sunday of summer.”
– Unknown
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett
Motivational August Quotes for Work
“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“August is for changes and strength.”
– Luke Hamlet
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle
“You can if you think you can.”
– George Reeves
“Your August can be as memorable as the leaving summer.”
– Jennifer Lewis
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”
– Maya Angelou
“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Happy August!”
– Unknown
“Don’t let your August be four weeks of feeling sad that fall is right around the corner.”
– Jasmine Vaughn-Hall
“Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best by looking into the eyes of the sun.”
– Unknown
“I don’t know about you, but August is still an important chapter in summer’s novel.”
– Jasmine Vaughn-Hall
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anthony Mill
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”
– John Heywood
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Short Hello and Welcome August Quotes for Your Letter Board
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“Good things are going to happen. Summer is still here.”
– Anonymous
“Goodbye July, hello August. I think you will be wonderful.”
– Unknown
“Welcome, August! You are my bittersweet end but also the beginning of something new.”
– Unknown
“Swim through the serene summer sky.”
– Virgil
“August vibes are upbeat but a little, little sad and uncertain too.”
– Unknown
“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.”
– Thomas Tusser
“The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”
– Garth Brooks
“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 Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.”
– Mak Cov
“Prayer is an August avowal of ignorance.”
– Victor Hugo
“Sometimes August isn’t recognized until December.”
– Meka Boyle
“In summer time to simply be.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
“The sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
– Stephen King
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden
Want more summer inspiration and motivation? Then check out the short summer quotes in this post, these inspirational summer quotes and also this one with plenty of funny summer quotes.