Inspirational Welcome July Quotes: Embrace the Heart of Summer

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

- Nelson Mandela

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Wilma Rudolph

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

"Words to repeat to yourself at the end of July: I am proud of the ways I am learning to let go. I am free to feel what I need to feel for everything that happened this month. I am free to be gentle with myself as I work through those feelings. The small amounts of progress I've made this July are integral parts of my growth. I am grateful for the progress I’ve made in learning when to say ‘no’ and when to say ‘yes.’ I am grateful for every opportunity I’ve had to grow in empathy and compassion. I am grateful for the good music that found me this month. I do not know all of what the future holds, but I will be grateful for slow and steady growth. No matter what awaits me in August, I will continue to breathe deep. I will travel through each day seeking big and small ways to practice peace. Somehow, after everything, I am learning to fall in love with the journey."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Hey. I don’t know what kind of day you’ve had so far, but I do know this is true you made it here, through the wild of June, and I hope July holds something beautiful for you. And if ‘something beautiful’ is small, and it does not seem like much, I do hope it’s just enough to remind you that even here, there is room for love. And while love might show up in subtle and seemingly fleeting ways, and you might find yourself with big questions lingering at the edges of seemingly ordinary days, I hope this July has one of those moments where your playlist shuffles in just the right way, to that one song that makes you feel like you’re going to be okay, and you are free to be just here, in July’s unknowns, breathing deep, anyway."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don't have to fix everything. You don't have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

- Albert Camus

"It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"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

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July."

- Mac Thornberry

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous."

- Frederick Douglass

"Independence now and forever!"

- Daniel Webster

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."

- James Bryce

"The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is—that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things."

- Condoleezza Rice

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

- Bob Dylan

"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

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

- William Faulkner

"With freedom comes responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"From every mountainside, let freedom ring."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit."

- Ronald Reagan

"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."

- Peter Marshall

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

- Elmer Davis

"I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free."

- Rosa Parks

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness."

- Louis D. Brandeis

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

- Benjamin Franklin

"America means opportunity, freedom, power."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor."

- Paul Tsongas

"America is another name for opportunity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

- Barack Obama

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

- Bill Clinton

"We can just let July be July, let the sun hang in the sky, clear your mind of all the things you're waiting on."

- Lily Williams

"Welcome, July! In remaining of half-year, we must fly to reach high."

- Vaidesh Vardanth

"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.

"July is hot afternoons and sultry nights and mornings when its joy just to be alive. July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass. July is a blind date with summer."

- Hal Borland

"In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the July night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"Let us live like flowers—wild and beautiful and drenched in sun."

- Ellen Everett

"July is a blind date with summer."

- Hal Borland

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

- Jenny Han

"July is a blind date with Summer."

- Hal Borland

"My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July."

- Rick Bass

"July, with its days of blue skies and time that seemingly stands still, holds a special place in my heart."

- Daisaku Ikeda

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

- Kellie Elmore

"July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden."

- Jean Hersey

"Dreams are the foundation of America."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"July is like the sunniest hour of the day."

- William C. Bryant

"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."

- Sarah Dessen

"I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder."

- Terri Guillemets

"The London trees are dusty-brown, Beneath the summer sky; My love, she dwells in London town, Nor leaves it in July."

- Amy Levy

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

- William Shakespeare

"I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder."

- Terri Guillemets

"But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter."

- Joanna Franklin Bell

"We spent June and July in the Rockies, growing stronger, feeling feral in the untamed range of mountains."

- Aspen Matis

"Julia, I almost wish we were butterflies living an eternal summer. Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring."

- Rolf van der Wind

"Through the long, lingering summer days, the sun rejoices in his strength."

- C.D. Warner

"What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time."

- Banana Yoshimoto

"I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home."

- Henry James

"If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead."

- Roald Dahl

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

- Oscar Wilde

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

- John Steinbeck

"The summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July."

- Francis Thompson

"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

"Liberty, once tasted, is an incurable addiction."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"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. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us."

- Paul Pitchford

"America, to me, is freedom."

- Willie Nelson

"Independence Day, July 4th, or as I know it: Out with the British day!"

- Steven Magee

"In June we picked the clover, and sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, no word from the sky."

- Cecil Day-Lewis

"Thinking back to when it’s warm outside. Oh, why couldn’t Christmas be in July?"

- Haley Mary Artzab

"They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July."

- Bill Bryson

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

- Wallace Stevens

"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all on their own or get all the way to the top and retire. In order to be successful, you have to embrace July passion all the time."

- Richard Branson

"By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup."

- Marti Heal

"Autumn frosts have slain July."

- Lewis Carroll

"Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers."

- Sara Coleridge

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

- L.M. Montgomery

"Then came July like three o'clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable."

- Allie Ray

"If ant hills are high in July, the coming winter will be hard."

- American Folkore

"The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July."

- E.V. Lucas

"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."

- Hosea Ballou

"July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole."

- Laura Kasischke

"July is a great time to give yourself permission to reach for your dreams and fly."

"July signals the second half of the year; make yours even better than the first!"

"July showers are a gentle reminder that relief is always just around the corner."

"The warmth of July makes it easy to leave cold winter memories in the past."

"Whether you're harvesting the bounty of summer gardens or just lazily watching the clouds roll by, July has a laid back charm all its own."

- Unknown

"The steady heat of summer is the secret ingredient for the magic of summer."

"As the temperatures rise, July's blooms just grow stronger and more beautiful."

"July is the heart of summer, with long, sunny days that feel like they go on forever."

- Unknown

"From backyard barbecues to beach vacations, July is primetime for making cherished memories with family and friends."

- Unknown

"July has arrived; go forth and thrive!"

"Let the summer's heat inspire you to accomplish amazing feats."

"July is mother nature's way of wrapping the Earth in a warm embrace."

"Just when July can't get any hotter, the rains pour down with cooling relief."

"Have a fabulous July birthday celebration."

"Okay, July - heat me with your best hot."

"It would be rude not to sweat in July."

"July makes me want to dive into the deep end!"

"Have a super-hot July birthday!"

"It's no lie - I love, love, love the month of July."

"Roar like the Leo you were born to be."

"July and I have a love-heat relationship."

"July makes me glad that air conditioning exists."

"If you can't take the July heat, head for the air conditioning."

"July is all sun and games. And rain. Don't forget the rain."

"July is in the air - you can tell by looking at my hair!"

"July at the produce stand proves that hot, hot heat leads to tasty treats."