It’s November. The leaves are mostly on the ground now. The crisp and chilly air hints at winter approaching.
The end of fall is a time of transition. Between seasons. Between work and holidays.
Between the beauty of autumn and the bareness and coldness of winter.
So to help you during this month I’d like to share 101 of the most uplifting, funny and inspirational short November quotes.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here for your letter board, Instagram and to make this a happy and inspired month for you.
Short Welcome November Quotes and Sayings for a Beautiful Month
“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”
– Gregory F. Lenz
“November is secret and silent.”
– Allison Uttley
“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.”
– Aleksandr Wootton
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz
“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”
– Anne Bosworth Greene
“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.”
– Sir Walter Scott
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”
– Rainbow Rowell
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
– Gladys Taber
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.”
– Cynthia Rylant
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
“Jam on November took away the worries, It was like tasting summer.”
– El Fuego
“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
“November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.”
– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
“Autumn is springtime in reverse.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.”
– D. H. Lawrence
“That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast.”
– John Howard Bryant
“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
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
– Unknown
Short and Uplifting November Quotes for Your Letter Board
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
– Cyril Connolly
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B. C. Forbes
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.”
– Helen Keller
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
“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
“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
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland
“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni
“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.”
– Alexander L. Fraser
“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.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.”
– Amit Ray
“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
– Arianna Huffington
“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
“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!”
– Edwin Way Teale
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“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
Funny and Short November Quotes for a Laugh (and Instagram)
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
– Emily Dickinson
“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October.”
– Henry Rollins
“Spring is brown; summer, green; autumn, yellow; winter, white; November, gray.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno
“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
“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
“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson
“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
“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
– Martha Gellhorn
“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
“The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
– Edward Morgan Forster
“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
“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.”
– Unknown
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
– Nora Ephron
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown
“Sweater weather is always better together.”
– Unknown
“In November, some birds move away and some birds stay. The air is full of good-byes and well-wishes. The birds who are leaving look very serious. No silly spring chirping now.”
– Cynthia Rylant
Short Hello November Quotes for an Inspirational and Aesthetic Fall
“In autumn, change in life becomes as natural as the leaves turning red, yellow and brown.”
– Unknown
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg
“It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds deep hymns of the sea, passionate wind songs in the pines.”
– L.M Montgomery
“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
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
– Rumi
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston
“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
“November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills.”
– 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.”
– R.H. Stoddard
“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
“November woods are bare and still. November days are bright and good. Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill. Life’s night rests feet which long have stood.”
– Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
“Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?”
– A Waltz for Zizi
“When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“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
“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
“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, web-winged and furious.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Autumn is marching on. Even the scarecrows are wearing dead leaves.”
– Otsuyu Nakagawa
“November comes, and November goes. With the last red berries and the first white snows.”
– Clyde Watson
“This is the month of nuts and nutty thoughts – that November whose name sounds so bleak and cheerless – perhaps its harvest of thought is worth more than all the other crops of the year.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“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
Motivational and Short November Quotes for Work
“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
“Embrace the crisp change of November as an opportunity for renewal and for a fresh start as the winds are howling outside.”
– Elise Green
“November is a month of transformation and preparation.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“If I can’t do great things, I can do small things in great ways.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Even in the quiet and dark of November, there’s opportunity for progress while others rest or get unmotivated. So keep going.”
– George Saunders
“True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for the experience.’”
– Oprah Winfrey
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
– Amy Grant
“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler
“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie
“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
“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
“Let this be the November you always remember. The November you chose to believe there was more to your future than you were able to see.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
“November is tied together with the heartstrings of gratitude.”
– J. A. McIntosh
“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”
– Truman Capote
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
“This is going to be a November to remember.”
– Charmaine J. Forde
Want more inspiration for your end of autumn? Then have a look at these inspirational fall quotes, the funny autumn quotes here and also these positive quotes about life.