50 Inspirational Fall Quotes to Embrace the Beauty of Autumn

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up."

- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."

- Vince Lombardi

"Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up."

- Lilly Singh

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up."

- Les Brown

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

- Ray Bradbury

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late."

- J.L. Carr

"There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again."

- Ruth Ahmed

"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize."

- George Eliot

"It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!"

- Winnie the Pooh

"The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider."

- Jane Hirshfield

"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"

- Humbert Wolfe

"Nature’s first green is gold."

- Robert Frost

"In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile."

- William Cullen Bryant

"If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour."

- Victoria Erickson

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."

- Chad Sugg

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

- John Burroughs

"I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds."

- Jesse Jackson

"Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it’s what the trees do."

- Ka’ala, @alohakaala

"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

- L.M. Montgomery

"Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar."

- Delia Owens

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

- Victor Kiam

"Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day."

- Shira Tamir

"I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it."

- Lee Maynard

"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."

- Samuel Butler

"And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened."

- Raquel Franco

"The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves."

- Charlotte Bates

"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."

- Faith Baldwin

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

- E. E. Cummings

"Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground."

- Andrea Gibson

"Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence."

- Yoko Ono

"It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon."

- Sarah Addison Allen

"Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place / And I can picture it after all these days."

- Taylor Swift

"But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall."

- Frank Sinatra

"It’s autumn in New York / That brings the promise of new love / Autumn in New York / Is often mingled with pain."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves."

- Ann Drake

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."

- B. C. Forbes

"Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection."

- Winston Graham

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer."

- Helen Hunt Jackson

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn. Stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."

- Thomas Hood

"Into each life some rain must fall."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you've got to be different and even more better."

- Lil Durk

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."

- Peter Marshall

"Autumn, the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful."

- Heather Stillufsen

"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

- Ogden Nash

"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar."

- Delia Owens

"Autumn leaves don't fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar."

- Delia Owens

"In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow."

- Amit Ray

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

- Albert Camus

"Of the great harvest I myself desired."

- Robert Frost

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

- Emily Brontë

"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons."

- Jim Bishop

"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

"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."

- Rudyard Kipling

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."

- Thomas Hood

"rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

- William Shakespeare

"If you work hard, have the right mindset, right intentions, things will fall into place."

- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

- Steve Jobs

"Autumn is the season of the soul."

- Virginia Woolf

"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers, we more than gain in fruits."

- Samuel Butler

"Autumn paints in colors that summer has never seen."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Autumn is a time of harvesting, of gathering together. For what is sown in the spring, so shall be reaped in the autumn."

- Warren McCord

"Autumn is the time of picturesque tranquility."

- Sir Walter Scott

"Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground."

- Andrea Gibson

"Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it."

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year's end and day's beginnings."

- Terri Guillemets

"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring."

- Truman Capote

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance."

- Hal Borland

"Autumn...the fiery threshold of winter."

- Terri Guillemets

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

- John Burroughs

"The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools."

- Henry Beston

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall."

- Oscar Wilde

"If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air."

- Laura Jaworski

"Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

- William Cullen Bryant

"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

"Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence."

- Yoko Ono

"Autumn is the hush before winter."

- French Proverb

"A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick."

- Brene Brown

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

- Che Guevara

"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."

- Remy de Gourmont

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

- Edmund Burke

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

- Charlotte Whitton

"Autumn is a season of transformation; let it inspire you."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a reminder that beauty can be found in letting go."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a season to reflect on the beauty of change."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a season of reflection, renewal, and resilience."

- Unknown

"Autumn is the season to turn over a new leaf."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a time to embrace change with open arms."

- Unknown

"Autumn is the season to release what no longer serves you."

- Unknown

"Autumn teaches us the art of letting go."

- Unknown

"Autumn leaves are nature's way of showing us how beautiful it is to let go."

- Unknown

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."

"Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have."

- Unknown

"Autumn is the season of dreams fulfilled and promises kept."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a dance of colors, a symphony of falling leaves."

- Unknown

"Autumn is the season of gratitude."

- Unknown

"Autumn is the season of endings and beginnings."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a time to slow down and savor life's simple pleasures."

- Unknown

"Autumn is the season to gather memories and create new ones."

- Unknown

"Autumn leaves are like the pages of a good book; they turn and reveal the story of the season."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a season to find joy in the journey."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a time to harvest the lessons of the year."

- Unknown

"Autumn is the season of cozy sweaters and warm hearts."

- Unknown

"Autumn leaves are like a kaleidoscope of memories."

- Unknown