60 Warm and Cheerful Spring Quotes to Brighten Your Day

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Spring quotes that will banish the winter blues

Every season has its perks: summer vacation, fall foliage, winter holidays. But what about spring? After the snow melts, the weather warms, and the first day of spring arrives. It’s a relief to see beautiful flowers blooming and birds chirping. This is a season that should be celebrated, and with that in mind, we’ve compiled some of the best spring quotes to put a little extra spring in your step!

If you love everything about the season, from fun spring celebrations to the funniest spring jokes, you’ll surely enjoy these quotes about spring, from the gorgeous flowers that bloom to the feeling of new growth and renewal that the season brings.

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Inspirational spring quotes

1. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” —Lilly Pulitzer, entrepreneur and socialite

2. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” —Walter C. Hagen, professional golfer

3. “Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.” —Frances Mayes, writer

4. “A life without love is like a year without spring.” —Octavian Paler, writer and journalist

5. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” —Edwin Way Teale, naturalist and photographer

6. “Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.” —L.M. Montgomery, author

7. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather that God has to offer.” —Dodie Smith, novelist and playwright

8. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” —John Muir, naturalist

9. “Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.” —Edgar Guest, poet

10. “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” —Laura Ingalls Wilder, author

11. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” —Neltje Blanchan, historian

12. “A kind word is like a spring day.” —Russian proverb

13. “My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.” —Terri Guillemets, quotation anthologist

14. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party.'” —Robin Williams, actor

15. “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” —Susan J. Bissonette, artist

16. “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” —Victor Hugo, author

17. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” —Doug Larson, columnist

18. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” —Anne Bradstreet, poet

19. “There’s so much spring in the air—there’s so much lazy sweetness in your heart.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, author

20. “Spring: the music of open windows.” —Terri Guillemets, quotation anthologist 

21. “Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.” —Munia Khan, poet

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Quotes about the coming of spring

22. “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.” —Ernest Hemingway, author

23. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” —Virginia Woolf, author

24. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” —Virgil A. Kraft, pastor

25. “The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter.” —Jen Selinsky, author

26. “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” —Marty Rubin, author 

27. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” —Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer

28. “People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do: I stare out the window and wait for spring.” —Rogers Hornsby, baseball manager and coach

29. “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens, author

30. “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, poet

31. “I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.” —Millard Kaufman, screenwriter

32. “That is one good thing about this world … there are always sure to be more springs.” —L.M. Montgomery, author

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Spring quotes about new beginnings

33. “Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons; it’s a rebirth of the spirit.” —Toni Sorenson, author

34. “From the end spring new beginnings.” —Pliny the Elder, author and naturalist

35. “Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” —Unknown

36. “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” —Gustav Mahler, composer

37. “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” —Lewis Grizzard, writer

38. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” —Leo Tolstoy, author

39. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” —Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet

40. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” —Gustav Mahler, composer 

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

42. “Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.” —Marge Piercy, activist 

43. “April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go.” —Christopher Morley, author

44. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” —Christina Rosetti, writer

45. “And in the spring I shed my skin, and it blows away with the changing winds.” —Florence & The Machine, rock band 

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Spring quotes about flowers

46. “Flowers are the music of the ground / From Earth’s lips spoken without sound.” —Edwin Curran, author and poet

47. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” —Henri Matisse, artist

48. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” —Reginald Heber, bishop

49. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” —Pablo Neruda, poet

50. “Flowers don’t tell; they show.” —Stephanie Skeem, author

51. “It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.” —Lou Rawls, record producer and singer

52. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” —Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet and author

53. “When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.” —John O’Donohue, poet and author

54. “Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower.” —John Harrigan, film producer 

55. “Spring flowers are nature’s most fragrant charms.” —Angie Weiland-Crosby, author

56. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” —Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright and novelist

57. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” —Theodore Roethke, poet

58. “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, actor 

59. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” —Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States 

60. “The earth laughs in flowers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and essayist

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