Fall is here.
Maybe the most beautiful season of the year with colorful leaves, the clear crisp air and cozy evenings under a blanket with a warm cup of tea or cocoa.
But also a time of change as the warmth, light and free days of summer fade away.
In today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most positive, inspirational and beautiful short fall quotes.
To help you embrace the changes of autumn. To make this a motivated and successful time. And to make you laugh when you’re having a tough or stressful day.
I hope these timeless sayings will help you to have a wonderful fall.
Short and Inspirational Fall Quotes for a Great Autumn Season
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
– Unknown
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
“The trees are about to show us how to be gracefully strong in the face of change.”
– Unknown
“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”
– Ruth Ahmed
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.”
– Hal Borland
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
– Rumi
“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.”
– Dodinsky
“In autumn, change in life becomes as natural as the leaves turning red, yellow and brown.”
– Unknown
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.”
– Unknown
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg
“Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful.”
– Unknown
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë
“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
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
– George Eliot
“The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light.”
– Malcolm Lowry
“Crisp autumn air speaks and I can’t help but listen to that clarity and take a different and new turn in my life.”
– Sandra Shea
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
– Delia Owens
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”
– Lee Maynard
Short Motivational Fall Quotes for Work
“The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.”
– J.L. Carr
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B.C. Forbes
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
– Samuel Butler
“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”
– Truman Capote
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
“In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.”
– Elizabeth George Speare
“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air.”
– Wallace Stegner
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to freeze your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be alive.”
– Kyle Lake
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“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson
“Sweater weather is better together.”
– Unknown
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”
– Unknown
“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
“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit!”
– Unknown
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
– George Eliot
“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies, I can tell no lies, this I love.”
– Unknown
“A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!”
– Marilyn Monroe
“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“A friend you are, sweet autumn day; to never falter, in my soul you stay.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.”
– Humbert Wolfe
“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
– Diana Gabaldon
“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”
– Angela Carter
“O Autumn, Autumn! O pensive light and wistful sound! Gold-haunted sky, green-haunted ground!”
– Effie Lee Newsome
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
– Rémy de Gourmont
“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”
– Charlotte Bates
“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”
– William Wordsworth
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”
– Faith Baldwin
“The tints of autumn… a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
“Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow.”
– Dan Millman
“And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.”
– Raquel Franco
“Autumn embraces change, even as she is falling to pieces.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Days decrease, and autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
– Robert Browning
“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.”
– Walt Whitman
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
– Unknown
“Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”
– Mehmet Murat Idles
“Autumn’s the mellow time.”
– William Allingham
Cute and Aesthetic Short Fall Quotes and Sayings
“Autumn arose and my soul bloomed.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”
– Mary Russell Mitford
“I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”
– Ann Drake
“I come alive in the fall time.”
– The Weeknd
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
– J.K. Rowling
“The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn, And the raspin’ of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn.”
– James Whitcomb Riley
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the top of a leaf.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Nature’s first green is gold.”
– Robert Frost
“It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes…”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
“I come by light of an autumn moon.”
– Broken Bells
“Autumn colors my soul in the loveliest shades.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.”
– John Muir
“Blaze the mountains in the windless Autumn, Frost-clear, blue-nooned, apple-ripening days.”
– Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!”
– Margaret Junkin Preston
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”
– George Eliot
“The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale.”
– Cornelia L. Tuthill
“Autumn whispered to the wind, ‘I fall but always rise again.’”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.”
– Laura Jaworski
“Only lovers see the fall a signal end to endings.”
– Maya Angelou
“Now autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
– William Allingham
“Autumn is all about falling: falling leaves, falling temperatures, and falling in love.”
– Unknown
“I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky / And one by one they disappear.”
– The Moody Blues
“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
– Nova Bair
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.”
– Robert Brault
“Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable… the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street… by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.”
– Hal Borland
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.”
– Yoko Ono
“Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home.”
– Henry Rollins
“Another fall, another turned page.”
– Wallace Stegner
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
– P.D. James
“The falling leaves of autumn inspire us to take daring leaps and to embrace the inevitability of change in life.”
– Unknown
“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
– Mo Yan
Want more inspiration for your fall? Then have a look at these inspirational October quotes, the uplifting autumn quotes here and also these Halloween quotes for a happy celebration.