Inspiring Summer Quotes to Boost Your Work Motivation

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

- Babe Ruth

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out."

- Deb Caletti

"All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world."

- L.M. Montgomery

"Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds."

- Regina Brett

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Maya Angelou

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."

- Isabelle Lafleche

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

- John Lubbock

"Then followed that beautiful season…Summer…Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

- John Lubbock

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Winston Churchill

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different."

- John Steinbeck

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all…"

- Harper Lee

"Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do."

- Paul Pitchford

"Ah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility."

- Darrell Hammond

"I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose."

- Emily Dickinson

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... It's summertime!"

- Kenny Chesney

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Do what you do so well, that people can’t resist telling others about you."

- Walt Disney

"Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier."

- Zooey Deschanel

"Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves."

- Debasish Mridha

"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."

- Maud Hart Lovelace

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble is too difficult to overcome."

- Wilma Rudolph

"In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible."

- Sarah Dessen

"The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper."

- Polly Horvath

"I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket."

- Kellie Elmore

"You are so much sunshine in every square inch."

- Walt Whitman

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"Learn as if you will live forever. Live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible."

- Robert Schuller

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John Rockefeller

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts."

- Larry Ellison

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

"Summer means happy times and good sunshine."

- Brian Wilson

"Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

"A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about."

- John Mayer

"Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly."

- Van Morrison

"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."

- Celia Thaxter

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

- John Keats

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”"

- Sydney Harris

"The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible."

- Vicki Baum

"In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different."

- John Steinbeck

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

- William Shakespeare

"Celebrate summer—sun-drenched days and starlit nights."

- Gooseberry Patch

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there."

- Jack McBrayer

"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by."

- Jeannette Walls

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

- John Steinbeck

"Summer arrives with the morning sun. Beach time breezes in with endless fun."

- Debasish Mridha

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

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

- Jenny Han

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

- Voltaire

"Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"If you look for perfection, you will never be content."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon."

- C. Day Lewis

"'Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about."

- John Mayer

"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June."

- L.M. Montgomery

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."

- James Dent

"Some of the best memories are made in flip flops."

- Kellie Elmore

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Evelyn Waugh

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."

- Langston Hughes

"Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days."

- Danielle Steel

"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."

- Robert Orben

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

- Sylvia Plath

"Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living."

- Melissa Marr

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January."

- Hal Borland

"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer."

- Anna Godbersen

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."

- Susan Polis Schutz

"I wanna soak up the sun."

- Sheryl Crow

"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this."

- Susan Branch

"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you, my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling."

- k.d. lang

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

- J. B. Priestley

"It's a new dawn, It's a new day, It's a new life for me. And I'm feeling good."

- Nina Simone

"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance."

- Bern Williams

"Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns."

- Marty Rubin

"Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne."

- Bryan Procter

"Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops."

- Kellie Elmore

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

- Charles Bowden

"I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies."

- Toni Morrison

"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."

- Al Bernstein

"Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights."

- Haruki Murakami

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

- William Shakespeare

"The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer."

- George R.R. Martin

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine... it's summertime!"

- Kenny Chesney

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."

- Patricia Briggs

"I will always seek to make it summer for you."

- Leigh Bardugo

"She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water."

- Katie Daisy

"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."

- Ray Bradbury

"Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together."

- Lisa Schroeder

"Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance."

- Yoko Ono

"Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly."

- Pablo Neruda

"In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky."

- Mungo Jerry

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

- Wallace Stevens

"I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on earth."

- Dough Greene

"One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter."

- Henry David Thoreau

"All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

- Russell Baker

"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."

- Thomas Carlyle

"When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill."

- Taylor Swift

"In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school."

- Margaret Atwood

"In summer, the song sings itself."

- William Carlos Williams

"The end-of-summer winds make people restless."

- Sebastian Faulks

"How quickly time goes by now, compared to when you were a kid. Summer used to last forever. Now it’s twelve weeks."

- John Goodman

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

- Sam Keen

"If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue."

- Katie Lee

"September tries its best to have us forget summer."

- Bern Williams

"It's like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime."

- Bon Jovi

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

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

"Sometimes the secret to getting more done is to take time off."

"Just because you’re on a budget doesn’t mean you have to look cheap."

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

"If you're not barefoot, then you're overdressed."

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

"People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable."

"One day or day one. You decide."

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"The tans will fade but the memories will last forever."