31 Inspirational Quotes to Embrace October's Magic

"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

- L.M. Montgomery

"Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like a leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir."

- Peggy Toney Horton

"October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures."

- Sarah Guillory

"October is the treasure of the year, and all the months pay bounty to her store."

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Stay humble, work hard, be kind."

- Conan O'Brien

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles."

- Sarah Guillory

"May the start of October remind you: you are worthy of new beginnings. You are worthy of finding joy in this season, no matter what is still unknown."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!"

- Rainbow Rowell

"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."

- Lauren DeStefano

"Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!"

- Yvonne Pierre

"October is the month that seems all woven with midsummer dreams. She brings for us the golden days that fill the air with smoky haze."

- Evalyn Callahan Shaw

"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers!"

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it — the ending and beginning of things."

- Jacqueline Woodson

"In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom."

- John Burroughs

"October made the leaves on Main Street fit for a crown. They dripped from the trees in jewel-toned shades: yellow and orange and fiery red. The cool wind sent a confetti-cluster of leaves down around us."

- Natalie Lloyd

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves."

- Virginia Woolf

"It’s October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

- Billy-Ray Belcourt

"October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy."

- Angela Carter

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book."

- John Sinor

"October is the month for painted leaves."

- Henry David Thoreau

"October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again."

- Hal Borland

"October is a fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen."

- Hal Borland

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible."

- Elizabeth George Speare

"October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round..."

- John Nichols

"October is the month of painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world."

- Henry David Thoreau

"After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the earth with mellow warmth."

- Elizabeth George Speare

"Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter."

- Carol Bishop Hipps

"The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…"

- A. A. Milne

"What the light looks like in the pear trees, in October, is a hundred teardrops of gold, the whole orchard weeping."

- Carole Maso

"He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things."

- Jacqueline Woodson

"I want the end of my life to be like the end of this day by the October sea, as pale yellow cumulus clouds spread toward the west reflecting the setting sun."

- Beverly Finney

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

- Sarah Addison Allen

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

- Napoleon Hill

"October proved a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween."

- Keith Donohue

"The October air filled with corn dust enough to make each sunset a postcard, with colors like a benign nuclear explosion."

- Nickolas Butler

"October air, complete with dancing leaves and sighing winds greeted him as he stepped from the bus onto the dusty highway. Coolness embraced. The scent of burning wood hung crisp in the air from somewhere far in the distance."

- Jaime Allison Parker

"Hope will never be silent."

- Harvey Milk

"You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

- Katherine Arden

"October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master."

- Elizabeth Enright

"I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling."

- John Muir

"I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers."

- Leif Enger

"October was always the least dependable of months… full of ghosts and shadows."

- Joy Fielding

"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"

- Humbert Wolfe

"You don’t waste October sunshine."

- Katherine Arden

"All things are symbols: the external shows of nature have their image in the mind, as flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Double, double toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."

- William Shakespeare

"Trust yourself. You have survived a lot and will survive whatever is coming."

"I didn’t come this far, to only come this far."

"Man can live about 40 days without food, about 3 days without water, about 8 minutes without air, but only for 1 second without hope"

"We could never learn to be brave & patient, if there were only joys in the world."

"Learn to trust the journey, even when you don’t understand it."

"Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again"

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile."

- Unknown

"Don’t just wait for inspiration. Become it."

"What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it."

"Turn the page to October and write your best chapter yet. Remember, only you get to decide what your story says."

"Welcome, October. May the arrival of a new month remind you that every day is a fresh start."

"Cheers to a new month, new goals, and new adventures in October!"

"October is a symphony of permanence and change."

"October brings you 31 chances to live your best life. How will you make the most of each of them?"

"You have 31 chances to reach your goals. Go out there and make every day count. Happy October!"

"October's canvas is yours to paint with dreams and aspirations. Enjoy the month!"

"Embrace the magic of October and let your dreams take flight this autumn and beyond."

"The woman on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Be selective in your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right."

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

"Happy October! Let your creativity flow like leaves in the wind."

"Happy October! May your soul find peace and serenity during the tranquil fall evenings."

"Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful."

"October's promise: A journey filled with love, laughter, and joy."

"As October unfolds, may your spirit be as free as a leaf in the wind."

"The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go."

"Hello, October! Thanks for bringing us a month filled with peace, joy, and spooky good fun."

"Prove them wrong."

"Inhale the good shit Exhale the bullshit"