Summer is here. Finally.
A time of fun and excitement. Of travel and spending more time with loved ones.
And of simply drifting away in thoughts while lying on a blanket in the grass on a warm summer day, just watching the clouds go by.
In today’s post I want to help you to have your best summer yet by sharing 110 of the most positive, funny and inspirational summer quotes.
I hope these timeless sayings will help you to have wonderful days with family and friends at the beach or at a barbecue.
To find new motivation for what you want to do with your summer (and for work too).
And to just truly enjoy your vacation and let it renew you, your energy and inspiration.
Inspirational Summer Quotes and Sayings
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
– Debasish Mridha
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
– Maud Hart Lovelace
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
“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 summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
– John Lubbock
“Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape…”
– Harper Lee
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.”
– Evelyn Waugh
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
– Al Bernstein
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee
“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – it’s dust and lowering skies.”
– Toni Morrison
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
– Zooey Deschanel
“I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.”
– Jack McBrayer
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
– Langston Hughes
“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
– Polly Horvath
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
– Regina Brett
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer – one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going – one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
– Taylor Swift
Motivational Summer Quotes for Work (and on the Freedom of the Season)
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble is too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
– Van Morrison
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
– Robert Orben
“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
– Deb Caletti
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.”
– Sarah Dessen
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
– John Keats
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.”
– John Steinbeck
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock ‘n’ roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”
– Haruki Murakami
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
– Anna Godbersen
Uplifting and Beautiful Summer Quotes for Instagram
“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.”
– Sam Cooke
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson
“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”
– Jimmy Buffett
“We know summer is the height of being alive.”
– Gary Shteyngart
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“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 could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
– Susan Branch
“It’s summer and time for wandering…”
– Kellie Elmore
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”
– Porgy and Bess
“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
“Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet.”
– Justin Timberlake
“Long summer days can calm the angriest of beasts.”
– Bert McCoy
“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.”
– Michele Elder
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine, it’s summertime.”
– Kenny Chesney
“I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.”
– Natasha Bedingfield
“Summer is like some great fried chicken…. hot as hell and gone before you know it.”
– Unknown
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy, unreason, lust.”
– Salman Rushdie
“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
“Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!”
– Unknown
“Celebrate summer, sundrenched days and starlit nights.”
– Gooseberry Patch
Funny Summer Quotes for Stress Relief
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan
“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
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain
“Our one wish is that the summer never ends! In the summer, I will get a golden tan.”
– Paul Dini
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
– Kellie Elmore
“Salt in the air, sand in my hair.”
– Unknown
“If I don’t make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!”
– April Mae Monterrosa
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
– Erma Bombeck
“I told you to wear sunscreen.”
– Unknown
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin
“Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.”
– Unknown
“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”
– Jeanne Moreau
“I plan on avoiding embarrassing tan lines by sticking to indoor activities.”
– Unknown
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.”
– Aimee Friedman
“In a relationship with Air Conditioner.”
– Unknown
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen
“I don’t tan, I burn.”
– Unknown
Short Inspirational Summer Quotes
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“A life without love is like a year without summer.”
– Swedish proverb
“It’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime.”
– Bon Jovi
“I was summer-born, and all my movements were governed by the light.”
– Maggie Stiefvater
“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 has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
– C. Day Lewis
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth.”
– Don Green
“Swim through the serene summer sky.”
– Virgil
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
– Roman Payne
“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
“Summer breeze makes me feel fine.”
– Seals & Crofts
“Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
“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
“Summer’s the same. We’re the ones who are changing.”
– Betty Williams
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.”
– Andrea Willis
“Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?”
– Eugene Kennedy
“Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer.”
– Unknown
“Summer has come and passed, The innocent can never last, wake me up when September ends.”
– Green Day
“When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!”
– Mehmet Murat ildan
“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.”
– Emily Dickinson
Want more positive inspiration for your summer? Then take a look at the 202 famous quotes about life here, the short happy quotes in this post, this one with uplifting quotes of the day and also these short inspirational quotes.