September brings about many changes.
The long summer days become shorter. Warmth turns into crisp air as the leaves in all kinds of colors fall from the trees.
And we go back to work and school (or maybe start a chapter in life).
No matter what your fall season may bring, today I want to share 101 of the most positive, motivational and inspirational September quotes.
To help you make this a focused and motivated month. A successful but also a less stressful one.
And a happy and beautiful start to your fall season.
Inspirational September Quotes for a Happy Fall Season
“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
“Let this be the September you always remember. The September you chose to accept: the best thing you could do was to let August fall behind you, and with an open heart embrace this new day that lies before you.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.”
– Peggy Toney Horton
“Time turns flames to embers / You’ll have new Septembers / Everyone of us has messed up too / Minds change like the weather / I hope you remember / Today is never too late to be brand new.”
– Taylor Swift
“September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and color. It glows like old amber.”
– Patience Strong
“September smiled at her wonderful friends in all their colors and bright eyes and gentle ways.”
– Catherynne M. Valente
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
– Victoria Erickson
“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 fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on.”
– Lauren Oliver
“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
– Donna Tartt
“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”
– Rowland E. Robinson
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”
– Alexander Theroux
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”
– Virginia Woolf
“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn awakened.”
– Raquel Franco
“September has come, it is hers whose vitality leaps in the autumn, whose nature prefers trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.”
– Louis MacNeice
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“Nostalgia – that’s the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will remember.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.”
– Stephen King
“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”
– Henry Rollins
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
– Lauren DeStefano
Motivational September Quotes for Work and School
“And suddenly, you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
– Meister Eckhart
“Let’s strive to be better in September!”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”
– V V Brown
“Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
– Wallace Stegner
“It is worth taking the time to stop and contemplate at the beginning of each new month.”
– Nadine Locke
“There is a clarity about September. On clear days, the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big.”
– Faith Baldwin
“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us.”
– B.C. Forbes
“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.”
– Brené Brown
“Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.”
– Roger Rosenblatt
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring and promise of exceeding joy hereafter.”
– George Arnold
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir
Funny September Quotes That Will Make You Laugh (Great for Stress Relief)
“Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.”
– Mary Berry
“Wine is the divine juice of September.”
– Voltaire
“Happy September! The world shall now transform into pumpkin everything.”
– Keith Wynn
“September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.”
– Jenny Wingfield
“I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.”
– Dominic Riccitello
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bernard Williams
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature.”
– Tom Robbins
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
“Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples. Now obviously this is provoked by the ripening fruit clustering on the trees in our orchard, but it is as though all things pomological ripen in me, too.”
– Monty Don
“It must be September, July sun has disappeared.”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September begins.”
– Shon Hyneman
“Let’s all be nice to September.”
– Nitya Prakash
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September.”
– Helen Bevington
“In short, a bad Sunday of September, in September of that traitor who let you go a big wave passed upon him, like a gunshot between the prickly pears.”
– Giovanni Verga
“Summer has come and passed. The innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends.”
– Green Day
“How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.”
– Eleanor Clark
Beautiful September Quotes on The Start of Autumn for Your Instagram
“September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.”
– Olive Wendell Holmes
“It was a lovely afternoon – such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.”
– Mary Webb
“The roses hung their heads and dreamed under the still September clouds, and the water plashed and murmured softly among the pebbles of the shore.”
– E.L. Voynich
“It strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September’s end and fell like an early leaf.”
– William H. Gass
“But now in September, the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head… The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on.”
– Robert Finch
“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.”
– Ali Smith
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland
“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”
– Amit Ray
“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.”
– Sharyn McCrumb
“September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures.”
– Lea Malot
“The old summer’s-end melancholy nips at my heels. There’s no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation.”
– Sara Baume
“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The September storms – the hurricane warnings far away, the sudden gales, the downpour of rain that we have so badly needed here for so long – are exhilarating.”
– Faith Baldwin
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough, to paint the beautiful things I see.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.”
– George R.R. Martin
“September sky never looked more charming, or the sublime petals of the rose looked so graceful.”
– Avijeet Das
“The leaves of brown came tumbling down. Remember, in September, in the rain. The sun went out just like a dying ember.”
– Harry Warren
“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”
– William Wordsworth
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
– John Donne
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
– Samuel Butler
“Is this not a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”
– George Eliot
“For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.”
– George Washington Cable
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
– J.K. Rowling
“Autumn. Time to dim the sunlight, cue the moody fog, and watch nature’s most charming story unfold.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”
– Andrea Gibson
“Autumn is a poem – while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.”
– Laura Chouette
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
– Rémy de Gourmont
Short Inspirational September Quotes for Your Letter Board
“It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air.”
– Carolyn Parkhurst
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg
“Let August be August. Let September be September.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
“It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“September is the other January.”
– Gretchen Rubin
“I love September, especially when we’re in it.”
– Willie Stargell
“But the days grow short when you reach September.”
– Maxwell Anderson
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz
“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul.”
– Peggy Toney Horton
“Sweet September Blessings! I am eternally grateful!”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived.”
– Ann Rinaldi
“I guess I’m just feeling all September-ish…All the trees change color, the days get very clear.”
– George Selden
Want more uplifting inspiration and motivation for your fall season? Then check out these short September quotes, the short and inspirational fall quotes in this post and also the positive and beautiful October quotes here.