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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Emily Brontë

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

- Mel Robbins

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Demi Lovato

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- William Faulkner

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

- George Eliot

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

- Aristotle

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

- Ann Brashares

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- William James

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

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

- William James

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

- Marge Piercy

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

- Aarti Khurana

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Robin Williams

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Jim Rohn

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Michelle Obama

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Maya Angelou

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

- Dolly Parton

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Farrah Gray

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Harvey Milk

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

- Harvey Milk

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Bono

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

- Bono

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

- Hank Green

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

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- Dwayne Johnson

"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 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

"Real strength has to do with helping others."

- Fred Rogers

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

- Mae Jemison

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Brené Brown

"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

"The power of visibility can never be underestimated."

- Margaret Cho

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Rhonda Byrne

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Rachel Hollis

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

- John Quincy Adams

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

- Stevie Wonder

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

- Quentin Blake

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Reese Witherspoon

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

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

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Edwin Way Teale

"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

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

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Megan Madonna

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

- Charlotte Smith

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

- Thomas Malory

"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

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

- Vera Brittain

"[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

"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

"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

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

- Sidney Hook

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

- Maxim Gorky

"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

"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

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

- Hank Green

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

- Bono

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

- Madeleine Albright

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

- John Guare

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

- Hafez

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

- Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Roald Dahl

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Helen Peters

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

- Hank Green

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

- James Thomson

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

- Mary Mapes Dodge

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

- Lord Edward Thurlow

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

"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

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

- S. Brown

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

- Jean Hersey

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

- Anne Bradstreet

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

- Anita Krizzan

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Robert Frost

"Spring is a true reconstructionist."

- Henry Timrod

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

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- Robin Williams

"Spring is the time for plans and projects."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Thomas D'Urfey

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

- Lewis Grizzard

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

- Jessica Harrelson

"May is a bridge between winter and summer."

- Terri Guillemets

"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

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

- Thomas Tusser

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

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Christina Rossetti

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

- Edmund Spenser

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

- Fennel Hudson

"May is green and pink and red."

- Richard L. Ratliff

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

- Alice Munro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"May is the month of rebirth and renewal."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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