October is here with all its golden leaves everywhere, days of crisp and refreshing air and cozy evenings with a cup of tea.
It’s a beautiful month but also one of shorter days and times when work or school may feel like a bit too much as we go into the final quarter of the year.
So, to help you make the most of your month I’d like to share 101 of the most beautiful, positive and inspirational October quotes.
To give you a boost of energy and reduce your stress. To help you appreciate these autumn days of change even more.
And to refill your motivation and optimism so you can make your fall a happy and fulfilling one.
Inspirational October Quotes to Welcome a Happy Month
“October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…”
– John Nichols
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master.”
– Elizabeth Enright
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”
– Leif Enger
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like a leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.”
– Peggy Toney Horton
“October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.”
– Sarah Guillory
“October is a symphony of permanence and change.”
– Bonaro W. Overstreet
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.”
– Elizabeth George Speare
“October is the treasure of the year, and all the months pay bounty to her store.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
“The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…”
– A.A. Milne
“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.”
– John Sinor
“I come alive in the fall time.”
– The Weeknd
“Autumn arose and my soul bloomed.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”
– Lee Maynard
“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth… The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch.”
– Elizabeth George Speare
“October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts, and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.”
– Ken Weber
Motivational October Quotes for Work or School
“May the start of October remind you: you are worthy of new beginnings. You are worthy of finding joy in this season, no matter what is still unknown.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
“October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again.”
– Hal Borland
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
– Unknown
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
– Vincent van Gogh
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
– Rumi
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
“Another fall, another turned page.”
– Wallace Stegner
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence
“Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near.”
– Khalil Gibran
“The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul… and life goes on.”
– Peggy Toney Horton
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
– Samuel Butler
Funny October Quotes for a Less Stressful Fall
“If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.”
– Devendra Banhart
“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”
– W.S. Merwin
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“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
“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
“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”
– Unknown
“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“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
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
– Jane Hirshfield
“Sweater weather is better together.”
– Unknown
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson
“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“Happy October! The world shall very soon transform into pumpkin everything.”
– Unknown
“O’ pumpkin pie, your time has come ’round again, and I am autumnrifically happy!”
– Terri Guillemets
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith
“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps
“Where my ghouls at?”
– Monster High
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
Beautiful Hello October Quotes for a Cozy and Aesthetic Autumn
“October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.”
– Alexander Smith
“He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it – the ending and beginning of things.”
– Jacqueline Woodson
“The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.”
– William Butler Yeats
“In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.”
– John Burroughs
“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps
“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”
– Angela Carter
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
– Delia Owens
“What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping.”
– Carole Maso
“October was always the least dependable of months… full of ghosts and shadows.”
– Joy Fielding
“It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“October air, complete with dancing leaves and sighing winds greeted him as he stepped from the bus onto the dusty highway.”
– Jaime Allison Parker
“The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.”
– Florence Bone
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
– Nova Bair
“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”
– Charlotte Bates
“Autumn colors my soul in the loveliest shades.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”
– Faith Baldwin
“October made the leaves on Main Street fit for a crown. They dripped from the trees in jewel-toned shades: yellow and orange and fiery red.”
– Natalie Lloyd
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
– Humbert Wolfe
“Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.”
– Avijeet Das
“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”
– Mary Russell Mitford
Short and Inspirational October Quotes and Sayings
“You don’t waste October sunshine.”
– Katherine Arden
“My favorite color is October.”
– Unknown
“October proved a riot to the senses.”
– Keith Donohue
“Then came October, full of merry glee.”
– Edmund Spenser
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.”
– Unknown
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze.”
– Ann Drake
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
– Unknown
“Autumn’s the mellow time.”
– William Allingham
“How beautifully leaves grow old.”
– John Burroughs
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë
“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.”
– Winston Graham
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
– Robert Browning
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.”
– Yoko Ono
“And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened.”
– Raquel Franco
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
– Victoria Erickson
“In mid autumn, around October, change in life becomes as natural as the leaves turning red, yellow and brown.”
– Unknown
Want more inspiration for your fall? Then have a look at these short fall quotes, the inspirational fall quotes here and also this one with the top 25 Halloween quotes.