As the colors of nature come to life and the sun shines brightly, we welcome the arrival of May. This beautiful month brings with it the promise of new beginnings, blossoming flowers, and warmer days ahead.
To help you embrace and celebrate May, here are 75 inspiring, funny, and beautiful short quotes that capture the essence of this special time of year. These timeless sayings are sure to bring joy, motivation, and positivity into your life.
Feel free to share your favorite quotes on your letter board, in a text message, or on social media to spread some May magic to those around you.
Inspirational May Quotes for Your Letter Board
“May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope.” – Emily Brontë
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale
“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” – Fennel Hudson
“You are as welcome as the flowers in May.” – Charles Macklin
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” – Harriet Ann Jacobs
“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.” – Marty Rubin
“May then is the month, if not of fulfillment, at least of promise.” – John Henry Newman
“Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” – Anita Krizzan
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May, and all thy days be as a marriage day.” – Francis Quarles
“Step aside to a brand new day. In the month of May, I feel I can start again.” – Mychal Simka
“I thought that spring must last forevermore; for I was young and loved, and it was May.” – Vera Brittain
“Rose of May, the sun that you are waiting for spring has come!” – Irene Doura-Kavadia
“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can’t help being thankful that they are alive.” – L.M. Montgomery
“What potent blood hath modest May.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make hay in May, for you may never know what June is coming with.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde
“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.” – Alice Munro
“Being negative only makes a journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.” – Joyce Meyer
“I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.” – Kiera Cass
Beautiful May Quotes to Welcome This Month
“Sweet May hath come to love us. Flowers, trees, their blossoms don.” – Heinrich Heine
“The month of May is the gateway to summer.” – Jean Hersey
“Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” – James Thomson
“The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” – Thomas Malory
“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.” – William Shakespeare
“When the sun is out, and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May.” – Robert Frost
“Beneath the apple blossoms, I go a wintry way, for love that smiled in April is false to me in May.” – Sara Teasdale
“May is green and pink and red.” – Richard L. Ratliff
“And after winter folweth grene May.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
“First night of May and the soft-silvered moon frightens her semicircle in the blue.” – David Gray
“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May.” – Smokey Robinson
“The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song.” – Lady Gregory
“May has decked the world, that we may bring the brave on land, or sea Earth’s glory on Memorial Day.” – Annette Wynne
“Bright May afternoons, mango trees in the garden echoed with cuckoo calls.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
“Mornings in May, echoed with the call of cuckoos, sunlight glowed through fresh green canopies of trees.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
“When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the rain drops glisten.” – Lucy Larcom
“Winds of May that dance on the sea, dancing a ring-around in glee.” – James Joyce
“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
“At last came the golden month of the wild folk – honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out.” – Samuel Scoville Jr.
“Fair flowers are springing beneath thy genial ray, and thousand happy birds are singing, all welcome to thee, May!” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“Oh it was sweet to think that May should be ours again.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“And a bird overhead sang follow, and a bird to the right sang here. And the arch of the leaves was hollow, and the meaning of May was clear.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
Motivational May Quotes for Work
“May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with warm color.” – Lillian Berliner
“By May, most of the harshness of winter has passed. The sky is bright, and warm sunshine filters through the new leaves on the trees.” – Ellen Jackson
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy
“May means long walks in the evenings, eating outside in the garden whenever possible.” – Sophie Morris
“It was outdoor detail – and May is one fine month to be working outdoors.” – Stephen King
“What is so sweet and dear as a prosperous morn in May, the confident prime of the day.” – William Watson
“Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?” – Charlotte Smith
“Along with the greening of May came the rain.” – Victoria Abbott Riccardi
“It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights.” – Nicholas Breton
“We know what we are but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lilly Pulitzer
Funny Hello May Quotes
“May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses.” – Ellen Jackson
“It’s May, the lusty month of May, that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.” – Alan Jay Lerner
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June.” – Karen Joy Fowler
“May, queen of blossoms, and fulfilling flowers, with what pretty music shall we charm the hours?” – Edward Thurlow
“Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you.” – W.E. Johns
“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” – Mark Twain
“Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, homecoming, and graduation day all rolled into one.” – Tam Mossman
“O, the month of May, the merry month of May. So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!” – Thomas Dekker
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson
“It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May.” – Francis Thompson
“Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.” – Marianne van Hirtum
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare
“We roamed the fields and riversides when we were young and gay. We chased the bees and plucked the flowers in the merry, merry month of May.” – Stephen Foster
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” – Al Bernstein
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – Rogers Hornsby
“Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Louise Erickson
“Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens
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