Like plenty of people, I love the summer.
The slow days in the sun. Barbecues and beach days with friends and family.
Time to just relax and recharge with an ice cream in hand.
And to help you make this a wonderful season I’d like to share 101 of the most beautiful, fun and relaxing short summer quotes.
I hope you’ll find something in these quick but powerful sayings and relaxing and positive vibes that’ll help you to make this your happiest and most magical summer yet.
Short Inspirational and Positive Summer Quotes
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“You are so much sunshine in every square inch.”
– Walt Whitman
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
– Zooey Deschanel
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine.”
– Brian Wilson
“I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.”
– Robert Bridges
“Summer breeze makes me feel fine.”
– Seals & Crofts
“We know summer is the height of being alive.”
– Gary Shteyngart
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
– Langston Hughes
“In summer time to simply be.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
– Hosea Ballou
“I was made for sunny days.”
– Unknown
Cute and Fun Short Summer Quotes for Instagram
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!”
– Kenny Chesney
“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.”
– Michele Elder
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.”
– Andrea Willis
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
– Susan Branch
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
– Kellie Elmore
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
– Van Morrison
“Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.”
– Unknown
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore
“Salt in the air, sand in my hair.”
– Unknown
“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”
– Unknown
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
– Debasish Mridha
“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”
– Jimmy Buffett
“Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!”
– Unknown
“She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.”
– Katie Daisy
“I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.”
– Natasha Bedingfield
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“It’s summer and time for wandering…”
– Kellie Elmore
“My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach.”
– Unknown
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”
– Porgy and Bess
Short and Funny Summer Quotes and Sayings
“I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing.”
– Unknown
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.”
– Aimee Friedman
“God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.”
– Rachel Caine
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain
“I don’t tan, I burn.”
– Unknown
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin
“If I don’t make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!”
– April Mae Monterrosa
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen
“I told you to wear sunscreen.”
– Unknown
“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman
“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
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
– Everett Dirksen
“In a relationship with Air Conditioner.”
– Unknown
“Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.”
– Unknown
“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I plan on avoiding embarrassing tan lines by sticking to indoor activities.”
– Unknown
“Summer is like the ultimate thai dish…. hot as hell, totally delicious, and gone before you know it.”
– Unknown
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy, unreason, lust.”
– Salman Rushdie
Short Motivational Summer Quotes for Work and School
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble is too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
– Roman Payne
“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– President Theodore Roosevelt
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.”
– Mario Fernández
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs
“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston S. Churchill
Short Aesthetic End of Summer Quotes for Your Letter Board
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
– Anna Godbersen
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
– Sebastian Faulks
“Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.”
– Yoko Ono
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith
“Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?”
– Eugene Kennedy
“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.”
– Emily Dickinson
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen
“The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.”
– Unknown
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bern Williams
“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.”
– George R.R. Martin
“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
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
– C. Day Lewis
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
– Patricia Briggs
“How quick time goes by now, compared to when you were a kid. Summer used to last forever. Now it’s twelve weeks.”
– John Goodman
“Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
“Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.”
– Melissa Marr
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
– K.D. Lang
“Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars – a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they’re gone.”
– Nicholas Sparks
Want more quick inspiration for your summer? Then check out these inspirational summer quotes, the short happy quotes in this post and also these short inspirational quotes.