70 Cheerful May Quotes To Inspire Your Bloom And Growth

If I had to pick one month to last the whole year, I’d choose May.

Today’s article brings you a collection of 70 inspiring May quotes to celebrate spring and the blossoming of new beginnings.

You’ll find here a selection of encouraging inspirational quotes about May from different sources on the web.

These positive uplifting quotes will cheer you up and inspire you to go out and enjoy the beautiful May weather.

Let’s check them out!

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Top 10 Most Beautiful May Quotes

I’ll start off with a selection of the 10 most beautiful May quotes. Enjoy!

1. “May then is the month, if not of fulfillment, at least of promise.” — John Henry Newman

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2. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. ” — Edwin Way Teale

3. “As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.” — William Shakespeare

4. “May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.” — Marty Rubin

5. “May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” — Fennel Hudson

6. “I thought that spring must last forevermore; for I was young and loved, and it was May.” — Vera Brittain

7. “The word May is a perfumed word… It means youth, love, song; and all that is beautiful in life.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8. “Mornings in May, echoed with the call of cuckoos, sunlight glowed through fresh green canopies of trees.” — Meeta Ahluwalia

9. “Where shall we keep the holiday and duly greet the entering May?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “May! Queen of blossoms, and fulfilling flowers, with what pretty music shall we charm the hours?” — Baron Thurlow

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Inspirational May Quotes

Next up is a collection of inspirational May quotes to spark your inspiration.

1. “Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” — James Thomson

2. “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” — Deep Roy

3. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” — Helen Keller

4. “When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; fresh violets open every day: to some new bird each hour we listen.” — Lucy Larcom

5. “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.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery

6. “It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green when buds ripened, and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness.” — Thomas Malory

7. “May. — The very word makes the heart leap. Birds, Buds, Blossoms, Beauty! Break away from every bondage of circumstance or low spirits and go out into the sunshine. Answer back the bird note in your heart, kiss your fingertips to every new blossom, and be a part of the spring.” — Eva D. Kellogg

8. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

9. “The flowers that should bloom in the month of May, every one of them came on an April day! And they looked for April showers in vain, but all through May it did nothing but rain!” — Carolyn Wells

10. “Spring breezes drift and tiny May birds chirp in morning’s dawn-lit heart.” — Terri Guillemets

11. “And a bird overhead sang follow, and a bird to the right sang here. And the arch of the leaves was hollow, and the meaning of May was clear.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

12. “Step aside to a brand new day. In the month of May, I feel I can start again. Life is feeling new. This is hope. This is love. This is where we all won. If you call, I will hear. I will listen for you.” — Mychal Simka

13. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” — Mae Jemison

14. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

15. “Rose of May, the sun that you are waiting for spring has come!” — Irene Doura-Kavadia

May Quotes About Hope

Spring brings hope and joy. These uplifting May quotes will encourage you and give you hope.

1. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore

2. “Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” — Virgil

3. “It was the month of May, the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trusts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.” — Thomas Malory

4. “Oh it was sweet to think that May should be ours again, hoping it not, I shrink out of the sight of men.” — Paul Laurence Dunbar

5. “The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs

6. Ah, in those earliest days of love, how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.” — Marcel Proust

7. “Make hay in May for you may never know what June is coming with and you may never know what July will present! When you see May, make hay!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

8. “Oh! Gladly do we welcome thee, fair pleasant month of May. The month which we’ve eager longed to see through many a wintry day.” — Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

9. “January, February and March are like prison walls to the spirit; April comes as a window opened, admitting sunlight and a patch of blue sky; then May bursts, the rainbow of the months, sent as a sign — a promise of fruition.” — The National Magazine

10. “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

11. “This sweet and merry month of May, while nature wantons in her prime, and birds do sing, and beasts do play for the pleasure of the joyful time.” — William Byrd

12. “There is a sweetness of May verging on June that no other time in the whole year can equal. And by sweetness is meant more than flower fragrance or honey taste; this is the greater sweetness of understanding and emotion, the glow of pleasure in being.” — Hal Borland

13. “Month of May, everybody’s in love, and the city was sent from above, and just when I knew what I wanted to say, the violent wind blew the wires away.” — Win Butler

14. “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 by emitting warmer rays.” — Lillian Berliner

15. “P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?” ― Kiera Cass

Positive May Quotes To Cheer You Up

If you’re feeling down, these positive May quotes will cheer you up and improve your mood instantly.

1. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” — Roald Dahl

2. “In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.” — Heinrich Heine

3. “May, it’s full of all the things that make spring and the brighter part of the year so special. Flowers bud, the sun shines, and new seeds are sewn into the fabric of our lives. May is awesome.” — Jenna Danchuk

4. “A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

5. “In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down.” — Haruki Murakami

“In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down.” — Haruki Murakami

6. “I cannot tell you how it was, but this I know, it came to pass upon a bright and sunny day when May was young. Ah, pleasant May!” — Christina Georgina Rossetti

7. “It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May.” — Francis Thompson

8. “May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses.” — Ellen Jackson

9. “Oh, it was a merry, gladsome day when the April Fool met the Queen of May. She had roguish eyes and golden hair, and they were a mischief-making pair.” — Carolyn Wells

10. “First night of May and the soft-silvered moon frightens her semicircle in the blue.” — David Gray

Motivational May Quotes To Encourage You

Below you’ll find motivational May quotes to help you pick yourself up and keep you going.

1. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” — Mandy Hale

2. “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” — Ella Fitzgerald

3. “No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.” ― Samuel Johnson

4. “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

5. “The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” — Thomas Malory

6. “Sometimes growth requires new company, new locations and new mindsets.” — Unknown

7. “May means long walks in the evenings, eating outside in the garden whenever possible, and lots of healthy, fresh salads to use up all the lovely summer veg that’s available.” — Sophie Morris

8. “There is but one May in the year, and sometimes May is wet and cold. There is but one May in the year before the year grows old.” — Christina Georgina Rossetti

9. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” — William James

10. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar

Beautiful May Quotes To Celebrate Spring

Check out these beautiful May quotes to celebrate spring and embrace new beginnings.

1. “Let all thy joys be as the month of May. And all thy days be as a marriage day.” — Francis Quarles

2. “You can have all the rest of the year if you will give me April and May.” — Spanish proverb

3. “It’s May, the lusty month of May, that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.” — Alan Jay Lerner

4. “You are as welcome as the flowers in May.” — Charles Macklin

5. “Beneath the apple blossoms, I go a wintry way, for love that smiled in April is false to me in May.” — Sara Teasdale

6. “The month of May is a pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.” — Lady Gregory

7. “At last came the golden month of the wild folk– honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.” — Samuel Scoville Jr.

8. “That I may reach that happy time the kindly gods I pray, for are not ducks and pease in prime upon the last of May?” — William Makepeace Thackeray

9. “May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.” — H. Peter Loewer

10. “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May.” — Smokey Robinson