Inspirational May Quotes to Brighten Your Month and Motivate Your Soul

"May your love be unconditional, for it has the power to transform lives."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it."

- Barack Obama

"May your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more."

- John Quincy Adams

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Mae Jemison

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try."

- Dolly Parton

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

"There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"May your choices be guided by your heart, for it knows the way."

- Aarti Khurana

"May your faith be unwavering, your determination unyielding, and your dreams unstoppable."

- Rachel Hollis

"May the work you do be a reflection of the passion inside you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"May your intentions be pure, and may you manifest all that you desire."

- Rhonda Byrne

"May your dreams be bigger than your fears, and your actions louder than your words."

- Steve Maraboli

"May your mistakes be stepping stones to success, for they hold valuable lessons."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Your mental health is everything — prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does."

- Mel Robbins

"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness."

- Brené Brown

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary."

- Fred Rogers

"Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding."

- William Arthur Ward

"Real strength has to do with helping others."

- Fred Rogers

"Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."

- Fred Rogers

"I have tried to encourage children to love and care for themselves and to love the parents who care for them. That’s the way true neighborliness grows — loving others as we first loved ourselves."

- Fred Rogers

"The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself."

- Dwayne Johnson

"All success begins with self-discipline. It starts with you."

- Dwayne Johnson

"I can’t change the world but I can change the world in me."

- Bono

"Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud."

- Bono

"What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change."

- Madeleine Albright

"Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen."

- Madeleine Albright

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard."

- Harvey Milk

"May is a month of rebirth, of renewed vitality and energy."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Step aside to a brand new day, in the month of May I feel, I can start again. Life is feeling new, This is hope, this is love, this is where we all won, if you call, I will hear, I will listen for you."

- Mychal Simka

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."

- Ann Brashares

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"You give 110 percent all the time, not just when you feel like it."

- Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

- Sigmund Freud

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"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

"Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly."

- Quentin Blake

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"May your words be filled with kindness, for they have the power to heal and uplift."

- Megan Madonna

"May your journey be full of discovery, and may you find beauty in unexpected places."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

- Rosa Parks

"With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything."

- Reese Witherspoon

"We are the superhero. None of us, individually, but all of us together."

- Hank Green

"[Being raised by Korean immigrants] gave me grit, cultivated independence, and showed me the power of resilience and hard work — but more importantly, [it gave me] the opportunity to redefine the narrative of a first-generation Asian woman."

- Haejin Chun

"Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die."

- Bono

"As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer."

- William Shakespeare

"We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences to make sure that others do not have to suffer the same discrimination."

- Patsy Takemoto Mink

"Prose and drama are well enough for winter, but when nature swells the darling buds of May, my spirit craves three things: poetry, painting, and love."

- Joan Smith

"Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success."

- Dwayne Johnson

"The power of visibility can never be underestimated."

- Margaret Cho

"All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential."

- Harvey Milk

"Our task is not to erase differences, but to build unity in diversity."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Another May, new buds and flowers shall bring. Ah! Why has happiness no second spring?"

- Charlotte Smith

"You’ve got the guts to find your own purpose."

- Madeleine Albright

"Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that."

- Hank Green

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."

- Sidney Hook

"If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."

- Stevie Wonder

"Only mothers can think of the future — because they give birth to it in their children."

- Maxim Gorky

"My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

"I thought that spring must last forevermore; for I was young and loved, and it was May."

- Vera Brittain

"May, queen of blossoms, and fulfilling flowers, what pretty music shall we charm the hours?"

- Lord Edward Thurlow

"It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May."

- Francis Thompson

"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

"It was outdoor detail — and May is one fine month to be working outdoors."

- Stephen King

"The month of May is the gateway to summer."

- Jean Hersey

"May is a bridge between winter and summer."

- Terri Guillemets

"O, the month of May, the merry month of May. So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!"

- Thomas D'Urfey

"Let all thy joys be as the month of May, and all thy days be as a marriage day."

- Thomas Tusser

"A great difference between ‘May’ and ‘Day’ is the ‘M’ and ‘D!’ Be a good managing director of your life each day in May."

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"When the sun is out and the wind is still, You’re one month on in the middle of May."

- Robert Frost

"It’s May, the lusty month of May That darling month when everyone throws self-control away."

- Alan Jay Lerner

"Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, homecoming, and graduation day all rolled into one."

- Tam Mossman

"Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, Homecoming, and Graduation Day all rolled into one."

- Tam Mossman

"Oh! gladly do we welcome thee, Fair pleasant month of May; Month which we’ve eager longed to see, Through many a wintry day."

- Rosana Eleanor Leprohon

"The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer."

- Lady Gregory

"May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year. Along the eastern corridors, she walks. What time the clover rocks the earliest bee. Her feet are flush with sunrise, and her veil floating in breezy odors o’er her hair."

- Thomas Buchanan Read

"At last came the golden month of the wild folk — honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year."

- Samuel Scoville Jr.

"May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive."

- Fennel Hudson

"When purple finches sing and soar when vernal gladness runnin o’er — when joys like these salute the sense then waiting long hath recompense and all the world is glad with May."

- Jonh Burroughs

"There is but one May in the year, And sometimes May is wet and cold; There is but one May in the year Before the year grows old."

- Christina Georgina Rossetti

"How tender is the touch of May While gentle winds are blowing, And in a sweet yet silent way, All sylvan things are growing."

- William Hamilton Hayne

"I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That’s part of the Jewish tradition."

- Eve Ensler

"This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around."

- Helen Peters

"Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded."

- James Joyce

"When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen."

- Lucy Larcom

"May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours?"

- Edward Thurlow

"The flowers that should bloom in the month of May Every one of them came on an April day! And they looked for April showers in vain, But all through May it did nothing but rain!"

- Carolyn Well

"That I may reach that happy time The kindly gods I pray, For are not ducks and pease in prime Upon the last of May?"

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"We roamed the fields and river sides, when we are young and gay; we chased the bees and plucked the flowers, in the merry, merry month of May."

- Stephen Foster

"Worrying isn’t a disease, it’s a symptom of caring."

- Hank Green

"The month of May comes differently in cities: not for us white blossom on the hedgerows, bluebells in the woods — instead the sun’s rays burnish bricks and mellow pavements; seeds burst into flower in the cracks between the stones; speedwell and bindweed bloom among the rubble."

- Heidi Thomas

"May means long walks in the evenings, eating outside in the garden (whenever possible) and lots of healthy, fresh salads to use up all the lovely summer veg that’s available."

- Sophie Morris

"What is so sweet and dear As a prosperous morn in May, The confident prime of the day"

- William Watson

"naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May."

- Marcel Proust

"May is a pious fraud of the almanac, A ghastly parody of real spring."

- James Russell Lowell

"When the sun is out, and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May."

- Robert Frost

"What potent blood hath modest May."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"But winter lingering chills the lap of May."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"The last days of May are among the longest of the year."

- Alice Munro

"May is green and pink and red."

- Richard L. Ratliff

"May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door."

"May your outlook be positive, for it is the key to unlocking endless possibilities."