November is here. With leaves on the ground and the crisp air turning cold.
Winter is on the horizon. Snow has maybe already fallen once or twice.
It’s a cold and dark time but also one of cozy evenings, fun holiday days and gratitude.
And in today’s post I’d like to share 90 of the most uplifting, beautiful and inspirational November quotes.
Use them in your own life to make this a fun and positive month and share them with the people around you via texts, group chats and social media like Instagram to help them have a good one too.
Inspirational November Quotes to Welcome a Happy Month
“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.”
– Anna Madsen
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
– Gladys Taber
“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
– Henry Rollins
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston
“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
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.”
– Cynthia Rylant
“There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.”
– E. E. Cummings
“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.”
– Alexander L. Fraser
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.”
– Aldo Leopold
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz
“November is the month that reminds us to be thankful. For the big things, for the small things and for making a spring that will come in due time so much sweeter.”
– Rip Miller
“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B. C. Forbes
“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni
“In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.”
– Amit Ray
Short and Uplifting November Quotes
“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”
– Gregory F. Lenz
“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”
– Anne Bosworth Greene
“There is the November sky, clean of summer dust.”
– Hal Borland
“Autumn is springtime in reverse.”
– Terri Guillemets
“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!”
– Edwin Way Teale
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
– Cyril Connolly
“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
– Arianna Huffington
“November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows.”
– Clyde Watson
“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.”
– Sir Walter Scott
“November is secret and silent.”
– Allison Uttley
“Oh how wonderfully you have grown since November of last year.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
“The morns are meeker than they were – The nuts are getting brown – The berry’s cheek is plumper – The rose is out of town.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Spring is brown; summer, green; autumn, yellow; winter, white; November, gray.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant
Funny November Quotes for a Less Stressful End of Fall
“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
– Emily Dickinson
“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
– Martha Gellhorn
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney
“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.”
– Johnny Carson
“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert
“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.”
– Aleksandr Wootton
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault
“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
“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
– Edward Morgan Forster
“Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
– Cynthia Rylant
“This November there seems to be nothing to say.”
– Anne Sexton
“Jam on November took away the worries, It was like tasting summer.”
– El Fuego
“This is going to be a November to remember.”
– Charmaine J. Forde
“Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.”
– Sara Coleridge
Beautiful Hello November Quotes for an Aesthetic Autumn
“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”
– Jean Hersey
“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning.”
– Cynthia Rylant
“It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep hymns of the sea, passionate wind songs in the pines.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“The river this November afternoon rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud. A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud. Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.”
– Cecil Day-Lewis
“Long cold nights mark November’s return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”
– Gladys Taber
“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.”
– John Clare
“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”
– Rainbow Rowell
“The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills.”
– Ray Bradbury
“November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”
– Gladys Taber
“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“The wild November comes at last beneath a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside, her face is full of pain. The latest of her race, she takes the Autumn’s vacant throne. She has but one short moon to live and she must live alone.”
– R.H. Stoddard
“It was one of those early November mornings that are as beautiful as any in spring. There was gold everywhere, drifts of it on the elm tree, flakes of gold under our feet, gold dust on the hedges, liquid gold in the refracted falling light.”
– Elizabeth Goudge
“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.”
– F. Sionil Jose
“When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades. That met above the merry rivulet, were spoil’d, I sought, I loved them still, they seem’d like old companions in adversity.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.”
– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
“Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.”
– D. H. Lawrence
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds, and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
– J.K. Rowling
“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.”
– Cynthia Rylant
“That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast.”
– John Howard Bryant
Motivational November Quotes for Work or School
“Embrace the crisp change of November as an opportunity for renewal and for a fresh start as the winds are howling outside.”
– Elise Green
“Even in the quiet and dark of November, there’s opportunity for progress while others rest or get unmotivated. So keep going.”
– George Saunders
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
– Ralph H. Blum
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
– Alexander Graham Bell
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“If I can’t do great things, I can do small things in great ways.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathanial Hawthorne
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B.C. Forbes
“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.”
– Peggy Toney Horton
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
– Viggo Mortensen
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young
“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”
– Gary Ryan Blair
“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb
Want more inspiration and motivation for the season? Then check out these short November quotes, the inspirational fall quotes in this post and also this one with funny autumn quotes.