120+ Inspirational Quotes for May: Celebrate Growth and Renewal

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

- Fennel Hudson

"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

"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.

"Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else."

- L. M. Montgomery

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Desmond Tutu

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

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

- George Eliot

"Your focus determines your reality."

- George Lucas

"And all the world is glad with May."

- John Burroughs

"May is the perfect time to take a breath of fresh air and enjoy the beauty of spring."

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Thomas D'Urfey

"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

"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

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Madeleine Albright

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

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

- Charlotte Smith

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

- Harvey Milk

"Do. Or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Madeleine Albright

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

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

- Jean Hersey

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

- Lord Edward Thurlow

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

- Vera Brittain

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

- Tam Mossman

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

- Thomas Tusser

"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

"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

"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

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

- Hank Green

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

- Hank Green

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

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Francis Thompson

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Real strength has to do with helping others."

- Fred Rogers

"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

"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

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

- Bono

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

- Harvey Milk

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

- Maxim Gorky

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

- Stevie Wonder

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"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

"May is a bridge between winter and summer."

- Terri Guillemets

"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

"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

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

- Alice Munro

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

- Robert Frost

"The power of visibility can never be underestimated."

- Margaret Cho

"When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May."

- The Temptations

"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

"May is green and pink and red."

- Richard L. Ratliff

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

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

- 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

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

- Stephen King

"What potent blood hath modest May."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The month of May, everybody's in love and the city was ours."

- Arcade Fire

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

- Helen Peters

"But winter lingering chills the lap of May."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Ah, in those earliest days of love how 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 can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses."

- Ellen Jackson