August Inspirational Quotes: A Beautiful Collection to Brighten Your Month

"Optimism doesn’t mean that you are blind to the reality of the situation. It means that you remain motivated to seek a solution to whatever problems arise."

- The Dalai Lama

"Let July be July by allowing yourself to trust: it’s okay if you cannot make sense of it all right now. What matters is that somehow, you found grace to breathing through. And now, you’ve made it to August where you’ll find: there is more to you. Let August be August by allowing yourself to trust: you do not have to be so hard on yourself if you cannot make sense of all that is changing. In the coming days, you will find mystery, and you will also find room to breathe and you might just find even in these unknowns: you are more prepared than you think. You are free to take the time you need to feel what you need to feel… including the good feelings. Don’t let them rush you. You are traveling at the pace you were meant to. You are still free to pursue peace right here in the in-betweens. Whatever happens this month, be gentle with yourself. Even here, there is still space for us to rise above the fear... propelled into motion by love. There is more to come. More love. More joy. More grace. More peace. Let this be the August you look back on and say: somehow, through it all, I learned to fall in love with the journey."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place."

- Esther Earl

"I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing."

- Tove Jansson

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

- Barack Obama

"And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed."

- Maya Angelou

"August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms."

- Victoria Erickson

"You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."

- Barack Obama

"I do have reasons for hope: our clever brains, the resilience of nature, the indomitable human spirit, and above all, the commitment of young people when they’re empowered to take action."

- Jane Goodall

"August slipped away into a moment in time, 'cause it was never mine."

- Taylor Swift

"We have come a great distance in this country in the 50 years. But we still have a great distance to go before we fulfill the dream of Martin Luther King Jr."

- John Lewis

"Grief is not linear. It doesn’t have a set endpoint or a predictable path. It comes and goes, ebbs and flows. It’s messy and painful, but it’s also a testament to the love we shared."

- Megan Devine

"What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."

- Barack Obama

"Everything goes except the love you pour into others and the world."

- John Green

"For me, finding hope is not some philosophical exercise or sentimental notion; it is a prerequisite for my survival."

- John Green

"You can’t see the future coming — not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us."

- John Green

"We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"My life’s long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my pathway I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence, but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid coloring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn’s place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I’ll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Let July be July. Let August be August. and let your just be even in the uncertainty. You don’t have to fix everything. You don’t have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things"

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water. I know now what they want is to touch each other. Each of us wears a shadow. But just now it is summer again and I am watching the lilies bow to each other, then slide on the wind and the tug of desire, close, close to one another, Soon now, I’ll turn and start for home. And who knows, maybe I’ll be singing."

- Mary Oliver

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"Hello, August - you warm, green, golden month of peace and progress."

- Mary Rickert

"This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand."

- Sara Baume

"When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar."

- William Faulkner

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning, The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color."

- Natalie Babbitt

"She just hugged me; held me close, didn’t say anything. And I realize now that that was… that’s the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you’re loved, let it wash over you. We got to love her and she got to love us. Amen?"

- Esther Earl

"Every action, no matter how small, is like drips on a rock — over time, they can carve a canyon through even the thickest, most immovable layer of rock."

- Shannon Watts

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

- Audre Lorde

"We have to ensure that women have the opportunity to compete. We may have to start with girls’ education to ensure that we have enough well-educated, knowledgeable women in a critical mass to be able to hold leadership positions… Women are not asking for gifts in leadership, they’re now asking to just be made leaders, they want to compete effectively but too often they’re not allowed that opportunity to compete."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."

- Gloria Steinem

"It is our goal to really have America show up, this is not about issues for one group or one ethnic group. It’s about Americans. It’s about creating a climate for America to fulfill its true promise for all of its citizens."

- Martin Luther King III

"But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time."

- Taylor Swift

"You lead me Into the spacious, Autumnal country of my mind, There to dig in fallen leaves, And talk about the world."

- Amy Lowell

"In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, and reeking manure."

- Colette

"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."

- Jenny Han

"Indigenous peoples are the guardians of the earth, the protectors of biodiversity, and the custodians of ancestral knowledge."

- Tarcila Rivera Zea

"August was nearly over — the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear — the first sign of advancing autumn."

- Viktor Někrasov

"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."

- Sylvia Plath

"August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across America, there’s no reason for celebration."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away."

- Sarah Helen Whitman

"August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know."

- Tove Jansson

"A golden afternoon of August: every breath from the hills so full of life that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive."

- Emily Brontë

"Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August."

- Denise Levertov

"Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it."

- Mother Teresa

"Esther Day is a reminder that we should all make an effort to appreciate the people we love while we have them."

- John Green

"I think that all human relationships are like a two-way street. You give and take. I think that’s especially important in grief. You give to your patients and their family members, but you can also take these beautiful, terrible moments."

- Sandra Menendez

"I love August - it's a gentle month that knows the sun is setting sooner than we'd like."

- Alexandra Ivy

"August is that last flicker of fun before the night arrives."

- Gemma Gary

"Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o’er the lake’s warm breast, And the ancient silence follows the burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs through golden August noons."

- William Braithwaite

"It was August and the fields were high with corn. In the orchard the last of the peaches clung to their branches and the apples were showing their first pinkish blush. The vegetable garden overflowed with produce: peppers, green beans, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash."

- Melanie Gideon

"How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!"

- Marsha P. Johnson

"It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation… for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy."

- Max Heindel

"If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe."

- Evelyn Waugh

"This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand."

- Sara Baume

"Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep."

- Lauren Oliver

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone."

- Natalie Babbitt

"August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied."

- Joseph Wood Krutch

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

- Kent Nerburn

"August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water."

- Mary Oliver

"August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor."

- John Buchan

"August slipped through, and September came, green as ever..."

- L.M. Montgomery

"But I can see us lost in the memory August slipped away into a moment in time ‘Cause it was never mine And I can see us twisted in bedsheets August sipped away like a bottle of wine ‘Cause you were never mine"

- Taylor Swift

"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer."

- Jenny Han

"No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday."

- Gladys Taber

"August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor."

- Henry Rollins

"Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm."

- Thomas Tusser

"That August time it was delight. To watch the red moons wane to white."

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

"August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer."

- Henry Rollins

"In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color."

- Natalie Babbitt

"And that feelin' never faded like the tan lines on your skin. I'd do June, July, and August, a thousand times again, yeah, mm, yeah. Can it be summer forever? Does love get any better than those three months together?"

- Ryan Hurd

"August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent."

- Meka Boyle

"Summertime is always the best of what might be."

- Charles Bowden

"One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon."

- Ray Bradbury

"The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled."

- Sue Monk Kidd

"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."

- Sarah Dessen

"Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring."

- Rolf van der Wind

"August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear – the first sign of advancing autumn."

- Victor Nekrasov

"It was August, and the fields were high with corn. The first flowers of autumn would soon begin to set the hedgerows aflame."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies."

- Rasmenia Massoud

"The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice."

- Garth Brooks

"For August he wears a mulberry coat..."

- Christina Rossetti

"When August nears, her mournful looks deplore 'the paradise of childhood' known no more."

- John Townsend Trowbridge

"August is the month of the high-sailing hawks."

- John Burroughs

"Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation . . . for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy."

- Max Heindel

"Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch."

- Jane Smiley

"Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year."

- Alice Hoffman

"Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk."

- Pat Conroy

"August, I'll see you soon, under yellow moons, where I'll gather what's left of you."

- Rilo Kiley

"It arrived in August, a beautiful thing, powerful and yet lithe."

- John Steinbeck

"August is ripe and the color made the sole quieter than color can know."