50 October Inspirational Quotes to Celebrate the Fall
The month of October is the perfect month to enjoy the awesome beauty of the fall season! It’s a month where the crisp air replaces summer’s oppressive heat to give us cool nights with earlier sunsets than we had during summer evenings.
When I think about October days, I picture a warm pumpkin spice latte, golden leaves, and the feeling of a new start as we reach the end of the summer. With the changing leaves, the month of October always reminds me that it’s a time to reflect, set new goals and intentions, and embrace the new beginning. It’s a month that combines the coziness of familiar comforts with the excitement of all the new possibilities that lie ahead.
To help get you in the fall spirit during this beautiful month, I have put together a collection of 50 of my favorite October inspirational quotes! These quotes will help you welcome October with open arms and celebrate the clear light and crisp days throughout this new month.
October Inspirational Quotes
- “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” – L.M. Montgomery
- “The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul… and life goes on.” – Peggy Toney Horton
- “it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.” – Eudora Welty
- “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
- “October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” – John Sinor
- “The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October…” – A.A. Milne
- “I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.” – Gene Simmons
- “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
- “In the entire circle of the year, there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.” – Alexander Smith
- “To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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
- “Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.” – Lorin Morgan-Richards
Motivational Quotes for October
- “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “This is October for me: Withdrawing into my own world, blocking out everything except the beauty of the season, my reflections and my relationship with God, I find that this is enough to sustain me through the long, cold, winter – and beyond…” – Peggy Toney Horton
- “I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again.” – Hal Borland
- “Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.” – Lauren DeStefano
- “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
- “All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” – Thomas Wolfe
- “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it – the ending and beginning of things.” – Jacqueline Woodson
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
Autumn Quotes
- “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 DeStefan
- “Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” – Peggy Toney Horton
- “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “October is the treasure of the year, and all the months pay bounty to her store…” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
- “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe
- “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” – Leif Enger
- “Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall
- “Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.” – Avijeet Das
- “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
Short October Quotes
- “Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…” – John Nichols
- “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg
- “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
- “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” – Charmaine J. Forde
- “To be successful, one must take chances.” – Willie Stargell
- “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
Happy October Quotes
- “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- “Each person leaves a legacy — a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.” – John Nichols
- “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” – Carol Bishop Hipps
- “Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.” – Angela Carter
- “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “October is nature’s poetry, painted in crimson and gold.” – A.D. Posey
- “In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.” – Elizabeth George Speare
How To Use October Inspirational Quotes
With the beautiful autumn leaves on full display, October is a reminder that we are getting deeper into a new season where new beginnings and new opportunities are all around you.
As you welcome the autumn season, my hope is that you find these to be the perfect quotes to help you live intentionally and make the most of this special time of year.
There are so many ways that you can use October inspirational quotes in your daily life. I have always found inspiration in using meaningful quotes as prompts in my journal. Spend a cozy October afternoon reflecting on your favorite selection of quotes. Let them guide your thoughts and help you focus on the beauty and inspiration that this season brings.
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Share your favorite October quotes on social media to spread the positive energy of the season! Encourage your friends and family to welcome the crisp, refreshing air of autumn.
I wish you a happy October full of the magic of the fall season! Enjoy every moment, where every fallen leaf is a reminder that change can be beautiful. Savor the season, because winter will be here before you know it!
If you are looking for more inspiration this month, check out our collection of positive quotes for October!
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