Embrace November: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life."

- Rumi

"Gratitude helps us see what is there instead of what isn’t."

- Annette Bridges

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

- Thornton Wilder

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

- Dalai Lama

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

- Jean Baptiste Massieu

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

- WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."

- John F. Kennedy

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us."

- James E. Faust

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more."

- Melodie Beattie

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."

- David Steindl-Rast

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

- Henry Van Dyke

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

- Maya Angelou

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

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

- Winston Churchill

"When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Don’t wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

- Oscar Wilde

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- John Burroughs

"I love the month of November: when the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers."

- Cynthia Rylant

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved, we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us."

- Helen Keller

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nibo Qubein

"It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy."

- Rainbow Rowell

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

- Albert Camus

"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world."

- Dr Seuss

"The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully."

- Henry Rollins

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Don't wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!"

- Charmaine J. Forde

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which spring from the soul."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."

- Ralph H. Blum

"Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever."

- Emily Brontë

"I have a little different definition of evil than most people — When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that’s evil. Evil doesn’t always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good."

- Yvon Chouinard

"Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving."

- Charmaine J. Forde

"There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now."

- Yvon Chouinard

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

- Estée Lauder

"Oh how wonderfully you have grown since November of last year."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"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

"What happens to other species also happens to us."

- Bill Nye

"We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions."

- Albert Barnes

"Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving."

- Amy Grant

"When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude."

- Miranda Kerr

"When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in."

- Kristin Armstrong

"Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night."

- Irving Berlin

"To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash."

- Bill Nye

"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for the experience.'"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Hope is kind of an orientation of the spirit; it’s how you position yourself in places where there’s a lot of despair."

- Bryan Stevenson

"We all have a responsibility to create a just society."

- Bryan Stevenson

"The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July."

- Henry David Thoreau

"When we connect with our ancestors and put their wisdom into action, we are evolving our collective consciousness. We are transporting the ancient truths of our collective past and birthing them into our future. What we create out of those truths extends the wisdom of all those who have gone before us, and it provides a guide for all those who will follow."

- Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

- Arthur Ashe

"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must."

- Barack Obama

"Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace."

- Arianna Huffington

"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."

- Brene Brown

"Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices."

- Robert Braathe

"If you cannot find gratitude, you'll never find peace."

- Leticia Rae

"Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils."

- Cyril Connolly

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all."

- Gregory F. Lenz

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

- Jim Bishop

"The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind."

- Aldo Leopold

"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:18

"In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year."

- Cynthia Rylant

"Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him."

- Hal Borland

"November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls."

- Jean Hersey

"In November you begin to know how long the winter will be."

- Martha Gellhorn

"The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward — toward my people — instead of backward, away from them."

- Anasazi Foundation

"Celebrating what we hope for together is better than fighting over what we believe separately."

- Steven Charleston

"Make something people want includes making a company that people want to work for."

- Sahil Lavingia

"The solution maybe for a lot of the world’s problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can’t just keep trying to make a flawed system work."

- Yvon Chouinard

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

- Bill Nye

"In November, some birds move away and some birds stay. The air is full of good-byes and well-wishes. The birds who are leaving look very serious. No silly spring chirping now. They have long journeys and must watch where they are going. The staying birds are serious, too, for cold times lie ahead."

- Cynthia Rylant

"The river this November afternoon rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud. A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud. Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune."

- Cecil Day-Lewis

"November woods are bare and still. November days are bright and good. Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill. Life’s night rests feet which long have stood."

- Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson

"November comes, and November goes. With the last red berries and the first white snows. With night coming early and dawn coming late, and ice in the bucket and frost by the gate. The fires burn, and the kettles sing, and earth sinks to rest until next spring."

- Clyde Watson

"Gray November, I've been down since July."

- Taylor Swift

"Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I'd like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night."

- Irving Berlin

"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone."

- Gertrude Stein

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

- William Cullen Bryant

"I can do all this through him who gives me strength."

- Philippians 4:13

"November is a month of transformation and preparation."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring."

- Edwin Way Teale

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever."

- 1 Chronicles 16:34

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."

- Elizabeth Lawrence

"Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way."

- E. E. Cummings

"There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog."

- Cynthia Rylant

"There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other's life."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

- Bible (Joshua 1:9)

"Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends."

- Alexander L. Fraser

"Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven."

- D. H. Lawrence

"November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear."

- Sir Walter Scott

"The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry."

- Aldo Leopold

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all."

- Stanley Horowitz

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

- Nathanial Hawthorne

"There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves."

- Joe L. Wheeler

"Autumn is springtime in reverse."

- Terri Guillemets

"I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures."

- Henry Rollins

"So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world."

- John Clare

"The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills."

- Ray Bradbury

"The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on..."

- Aldo Leopold

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me."

- Psalm 28:7

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."

- Proverbs 3:5

"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you."

- Numbers 6:24–25 (Bible)

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."

- Psalm 23:1

"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds."

- Hebrews 10:24

"The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind."

- Aldo Leopold

"I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip."

- Henry Rollins

"November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths…"

- Edward Thomas

"In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets."

- Cynthia Rylant

"And November sad, a psalm. Tender, trustful, full of balm. Thou must breathe in spirits calm."

- Caroline May

"There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear."

- Walter Scott

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"November always seems to me the Norway of the year."

- Emily Dickinson

"November's sky is chill an drear, November's life is red and sear."

- Sir Walter Scott

"November is secret and silent."

- Allison Uttley

"November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes — days full of a fine, pale sunshine that sifted through the late, leafless gold of the juniper trees and glimmered among the grey beeches, lighting up evergreen banks of moss and washing the colonnades of the pines."

- L.M. Montgomery

"It was one of those early November mornings that are as beautiful as any in spring. There was gold everywhere, drifts of it on the elm tree, flakes of gold under our feet, gold dust on the hedges, liquid gold in the refracted falling light."

- Elizabeth Goudge

"The house was very quiet, and the fog we are in November now pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost."

- E.M. Forster

"When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades. That met above the merry rivulet, were spoil’d, I sought, I loved them still, they seem’d like old companions in adversity."

- William Cullen Bryant

"But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them."

- L.M. Montgomery

"November flush and your flannel cure."

- Taylor Swift

"That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast."

- John Howard Bryant

"But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…"

- L.M. Montgomery

"In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures."

- Cynthia Rylant

"November at its best—with a sort of delightful menace in the air."

- Anne Bosworth Greene

"The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Sarah Addison Allen

"November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground."

- Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

"The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears."

- Aleksandr Wootton

"Food is better in November than any other time of the year."

- Cynthia Rylant

"November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows."

- Clyde Watson

"How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!"

- Edwin Way Teale

"November's sky is chill and drear, November's life is red and sear."

- Sir Walter Scott

"Gray November I’ve been down since July Motion capture Put me in a bad light"

- Taylor Swift

"The November wind has a sound different from any other, a low, dry whispering through the bare branches."

- John Burroughs

"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year."

- Louisa May Alcott

"November's sky  is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear."

- Sir Walter Scott

"It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favorite clothes…"

- Rainbow Rowell

"The wild November comes at last beneath a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside, her face is full of pain. The latest of her race, she takes the Autumn’s vacant throne. She has but one short moon to live and she must live alone."

- R.H. Stoddard

"It's so much colder than I thought it would be"

- Taylor Swift

"Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?"

- E.M. Forster

"I recall late November"

- Taylor Swift

"Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise."

- Gladys Taber

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

- Elizabeth Bowen

"This is not a moment, it's the movement."

- Hamilton cast

"The freedom to vote is the freedom that unlocks all others."

- Kamala Harris

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more."

"Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude; it’s gratitude that brings us happiness."

"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning."

"November: The last month of autumn, but the beginning of a new adventure; time to take a risk and do the unexpected."

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

"The days grow short, the nights grow long, the autumn turns to winter's song."

"November's muffled gloom was Nature's pause; a solemn time for man to rest his body, and his carnal mind."

- Unknown