Inspirational Quotes for August

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Kent Nerburn

When you are in a sport, there is a plan to reach for perfection in a certain week in August and it gives you a focus in life and in everything you do around it.

Denise Lewis

August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!

John Burroughs

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.

Henry Rollins

August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I’m at the height of my powers come September.

Nish Kumar

Every August, I go away for four weeks to a place in Michigan. I work in the mornings, spend the month in shorts and flip-flops. It gives me time to think like an investor and come back in September for some heavy planning.

Joe Mansueto

No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.

Gladys Taber

Every year I go to Denver, usually between June and August. I hire a car and head up to the Rocky Mountain National Park, about a three-hour drive. It’s my idea of heaven on earth and just talking about it puts me in a good mood.

Gavin Esler

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

Henry Rollins

Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.

Lauren Oliver

August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear – the first sign of advancing autumn.

Viktor Nekrasov

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

Jonathan Safran Foer

August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.

Mary Oliver

August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

Jean Hersey

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

Denise Levertov

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Summer. The seasons between spring and autumn, comprising the Northern Hemisphere, the warmest months of the year: June, July, and August. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.

Cecelia Ahern

August is the month of the high-sailing hawks.

John Burroughs

One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.

Ray Bradbury

But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time…

Taylor Swift

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

Joseph Wood Krutch

It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation . . . for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.

Max Heindel

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Rick Bass

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.

Jenny Han

The quiet August noon has come; A slumberous silence fills the sky; The winds are still, the trees are dumb, In glassy sleep the waters lie.

William Cullen Bryant

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Sylvia Plath

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

Sarah Dessen

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

Henry David Thoreau

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

L.M. Montgomery

Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there’s a star called Aldebaran? And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?

Elizabeth Enright

This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.

Sara Baume

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

Natalie Babbitt

August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

Jean Hersey

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified.

Denis Mackail

In June we picked the clover, and sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, No word from the sky. A hand came out of August and flicked his life away: We had not time to bargain, mope, Moralize, or pray.

Cecil Day-Lewis

When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Wilma Rudolph

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

Deb Caletti

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxter

August is the border between summer and autumn. It is the most beautiful month I know.

Tove Jansson

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

Donald G. Mitchell

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.

Thom Gunn

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

William Shakespeare

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Wallace Stevens

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

That August time it was delight to watch the red moons wane to white.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Oh, the summer night has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.

Bryan Waller Procter

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Diane Ackerman