May Quotes for Inspiration: A Blooming Collection of Wisdom and Motivation

### Embrace the Spirit of May with Inspirational Quotes May is a month of renewal, hope, and endless possibilities. This carefully curated collection of May quotes offers a vibrant mix of wisdom, motivation, and encouragement to help you embrace the season's energy and inspire your journey. From timeless words by great thinkers like C.S. Lewis and Maya Angelou to uplifting reminders from contemporary voices, these quotes celebrate growth, courage, and the power of dreams. Whether you're setting new goals or seeking a fresh perspective, this collection invites you to reflect and find light in every moment. Dive into these inspiring words and let May's spirit of blossoming guide you toward a brighter, more fulfilling path. Perfect for anyone looking to spark motivation and positivity during this beautiful month.

Wisdom from the Masters

"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

Awareness

"May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope."

- Emily Brontë

Hope

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

Motivation

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"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

Hope

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

- Mel Robbins

Empowerment

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

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

- Dolly Parton

Courage

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

- Farrah Gray

Ambition

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contribution

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

- William James

Contribution

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

- Robin Williams

Influence

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

Positivity

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

- Amanda Gorman

Bravery

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

- Michelle Obama

Courage

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Ambition

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

Compassion

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Courage

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

- Mae Jemison

Motivation

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

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

"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

Gratitude

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

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Ambition

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

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Hope

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

- William Faulkner

Courage

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

- Serena Williams

Resilience

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

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

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

Change

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Adversity

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

- Olivia Newton John

Facing Fears

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

- Jim Rohn

Happiness

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

Happiness

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

- Helen Keller

Positivity

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

- Deep Roy

Positivity

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

- Ann Brashares

Happiness

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

- Dalai Lama

Happiness

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

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

- William Shakespeare

Joy

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Motivation

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

- Jimmy Dean

Change

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

- William James

Mindfulness

"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

Inspiration

"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

Change

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

- Maya Angelou

Success

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Respect

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

- Brené Brown

Courage

"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

Change

"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

Resilience

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

Hope

"Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk."

- Marge Piercy

Hope

"The power of visibility can never be underestimated."

- Margaret Cho

Empowerment

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

- Aarti Khurana

Belief in Self

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

- John Quincy Adams

Inspiration

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

- Rachel Hollis

Motivation

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Personal Growth

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

- Rhonda Byrne

Empowerment

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Love

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

- Steve Maraboli

Ambition

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Learning from Mistakes

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

Self-esteem

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Estée Lauder

Success

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Harvey Milk

Empowerment

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

- Harvey Milk

Courage

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

- Desmond Tutu

Hope

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

- Madeleine Albright

Empowerment

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

- Madeleine Albright

Change

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

- Bono

Hope

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

- Bono

Change

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Hank Green

Teamwork

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

- Dwayne Johnson

Self-improvement

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

- Dwayne Johnson

Belief in Self

"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

Love

"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

Love

"Real strength has to do with helping others."

- Fred Rogers

Strength

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

- William Arthur Ward

Inspiration

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

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

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

- Demi Lovato

Hope

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

- Alexander the Great

Motivation

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

- Napoleon Hill

Taking Risks

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

Imagination

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Creativity

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

- John Guare

Hope

"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful."

- Jim Carrey

Self-improvement

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

- Sigmund Freud

Reflection

"That is one good thing about this world–there are always sure to be more springs."

- L.M. Montgomery

Hope

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

- Dr. Seuss

Reflection

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

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

Gratitude

"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."

- Edwin Way Teale

Hope

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

- Vera Brittain

Love

"Always it's spring and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves."

- E.E. Cummings

Love

"Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?"

- Charlotte Smith

Reflection

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

- Madeleine Albright

Courage

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

- Lindsey Vonn

Change

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

- Michael Altshuler

Time Management

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

- Nicole Kidman

Resilience

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

- Bono

Responsibility

"May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with warm color. The flowers and trees are in full bloom, and even the sun joins this rhapsody be emitting warmer rays."

- Lillian Berliner

Nature

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

- Megan Madonna

Compassion

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

- Hank Green

Belief

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

- Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights

Drive

"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

Self-awareness

"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

Contribution

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

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

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

- Reese Witherspoon

Motivation

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

- Hafez

Gratitude

"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

Love

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

- Maxim Gorky

Hope

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

- Stevie Wonder

Love

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

- John Barrymore

Happiness

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

- Sidney Hook

Education

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

- Roald Dahl

Positivity

"The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit."

- Thomas Malory

Growth

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

- Rosa Parks

Inspiration

"[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

Resilience

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

- Mandy Hale

Adaptation

"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

Spirituality

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

- Quentin Blake

Inspiration

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

- Hank Green

Awareness

"My heart is light with May! The sky is soft; the coming birds Are silent on their way."

- Mary Mapes Dodge

Joy

"Sweet May hath come to love us. Flowers, trees, their blossoms don."

- Heinrich Heine

Nature

"Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed."

- James Thomson

Nature

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

- Helen Peters

Gratitude

"Spring is the time for plans and projects."

- Leo Tolstoy

Goals

"The beautiful spring came; and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

Healing

"Come with me into the woods. Where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible."

- Mary Oliver

Nature

"The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing."

- S. Brown

Joy

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."

- Anne Bradstreet

Awareness

"Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer."

- Anita Krizzan

Hope

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy

"Spring is the time of year when it is too late for the snow to do any good, and too early for the grass to grow."

- Evan Esar

Change

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

- Fennel Hudson

Happiness

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

- Robert Frost

Nature

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

- Jean Hersey

Change

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

- Thomas Tusser

Happiness

"Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed."

- Edmund Spenser

Joy

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

- Lord Edward Thurlow

Nature

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

- Thomas D'Urfey

Joy

"May is a bridge between winter and summer."

- Terri Guillemets

Change

"Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten to appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you."

- Elizabeth von Arnim

Change

"Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is."

- Jessica Harrelson

Growth

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

- Debasish Mridha

Well-being

"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."

- Lewis Grizzard

Awareness

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."

- Christina Rossetti

Awareness

"Spring is a true reconstructionist."

- Henry Timrod

Change

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

- Lailah Gifty Akita

New Beginnings

"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"

- Robin Williams

Joy

"May is green and pink and red."

- Richard L. Ratliff

Awareness

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

- Alice Munro

Time Management

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"May the road rise up to meet you, and may the wind be always at your back."

Hope

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

Happiness

"May, the month of sunshine, blooming flowers, and endless possibilities."

Hope

"May is the month when nature is reborn, and everything is possible."

Aspirations

"May is the month of rebirth and renewal."

Growth

"May the month of May be a month of sunshine, happiness, and endless blessings."

Happiness

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

Positivity

"May is the time when the flowers bloom, the birds sing, and the world awakens from its winter slumber."

Awareness

"May your life be filled with love and laughter, and may you find happiness in every chapter."

Happiness

"Just like May’s flowers, your progress starts beneath the surface."

Motivation

"May is like Friday—everyone’s ready to play!"

Positivity

"Sun’s up, mood’s up, May’s here—drink from the happy cup!"

Positivity

"May is nature’s way of saying, “Winter’s rent is due, and it’s moving out.”"

Change

"Roses are red, violets are blue, May says, “Wake up! There’s fun to do!”"

Positivity

"May brings sunshine, but my allergies bring punchlines."

Positivity

"May’s here, my energy’s near… just kidding, I need more cheer!"

Positivity

"May is proof that hard work blooms into something great soon."

Motivation

"This month, let your efforts shine like May’s golden sunshine."

Motivation

"The seeds you plant in May will bring success your way."

Motivation

"Work with May’s energy—steady, bright, and full of possibility."

Motivation

"Let May remind you: Small steps lead to big rewards."

Motivation

"May says, “Go ahead, set goals—watch them grow!”"

Motivation

"May is the time when everything awakens and springs into action."

Awareness