July is here.
With endless summer days. Some well-needed rest for many of us with summer vacations. And with plenty of fun, lazy days and blossoming beauty all around us.
So in today’s post I want to celebrate that and also help you to make the most out of this lovely month.
This is 101 of the most positive, motivational, funny and inspirational July quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to make this a happy, meaningful and beautiful month and summer.
Inspirational July Quotes for a Happy Summer
“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han
“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
“It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.”
– Charlotte Eriksson
“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
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer – one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going – one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the July night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“July, with its days of blue skies and time that seemingly stands still, holds a special place in my heart.”
– Daisaku Ikeda
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“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
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
– C. Day Lewis
“I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks to the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights, and the rivers that run and the stars that rise, and the rain that falls, and all the good things that a good God gives.”
– Ann Voskamp
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
– Hosea Ballou
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.”
– Sarah Dessen
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls
“Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.”
– Melissa Marr
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful July Quotes and Sayings to Welcome This Month
“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden.”
– Jean Hersey
“July is hot afternoons and sultry nights and mornings when it’s joy just to be alive. July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass. July is a blind date with summer.”
– Hal Borland
“In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can’t drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening.”
– Mary Quant
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
– Debasish Mridha
“I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.”
– Terri Guillemets
“The summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July.”
– Francis Thompson
“Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.”
– Sara Coleridge
“They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.”
– Bill Bryson
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens
“July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.”
– Laura Kasischke
“Then came July like three o’clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.”
– Allie Ray
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen
“The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.”
– E. V. Lucas
“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.”
– Marti Healy
“Long has paled that sunny sky: echoes fade and memories die: autumn frosts have slain July.”
– Lewis Carroll
“June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.”
– Truman Capote
“In June we picked the clover, and sea-shells in July: there was no silence at the door, no word from the sky.”
– Cecil Day-Lewis
“We spent June and July in the Rockies, growing stronger, feeling feral in the untamed range of mountains.”
– Aspen Matis
“The linden, in the fervors of July, hums with a louder concert.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“The market is full of delights in July-fresh vegetables, berries, red cherries for pie!”
– Louise Bennett Weaver
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”
– Susan Polis Schutz
“Sunset in July along the western sky, the glow becomes richer and deeper as the sun goes down to his rest.”
– Eliza Cook
Motivational July Quotes for Work
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller
“What dreams we have dreamed, and what visions we have seen, lying idly with half-shut eyes in some greenwood shaw, sheltering from July’s noonday sun.”
– Robert Chambers
“Counting days of July won’t help unless you spend that time with even small achievements each day.”
– Unknown
“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
– Van Morrison
“Welcome, July! In remaining of half-year, we must fly to reach high.”
– Vaidesh Vardanth
“Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July, we’re gonna start another season.”
– Jerry Orbach
“Thirty-one days of July can make a huge difference to life. All you need to do is focus!”
– Unknown
“Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.”
– Henry Rollins
“May the month ahead be filled with an abundance of magnificent miracles, blissful blessings, and splendid surprises. Welcome, July!”
– Unknown
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“In the long dusks of summer, we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”
– Steven Millhauser
“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
– Deb Caletti
Funny July Quotes for a Good Laugh and Your Instagram
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent
“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”
– Roald Dahl
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell
“When Christmas comes in July, I often serve plum pudding pie with hot coffee or tea of chai, while air conditioning’s on high.”
– Patterson Mooney
“It’s Fourth of July weekend, or as I call it, ‘Exploding Christmas.’”
– Stephen Colbert
“No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.”
– Earl Weaver
“Then came hot July boiling like to fire, that all the garments he had cast away.”
– Edmund Spenser
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
– Earl Wilson
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July fourth, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Being a traditionalist, I’m a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I’m already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.”
– John Waters
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker
“There’s just something about deviled eggs, whether it’s the summer around Fourth of July for a picnic or a big sit-down meal like Christmas or Easter, we always do that.”
– Steve Doocy
“I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.”
– James Lafferty
“I’d like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.”
– Joey Chestnut
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
– Kellie Elmore
“I’m a July girl. I was born with my heart on my sleeve, a fire in my soul, and a mouth I can’t control.”
– Unknown
Short July Quotes to Say Hello to This New Month (Great for Letter Boards)
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!”
– Kenny Chesney
“Life is better in flip-flops.”
– Unknown
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”
– Porgy and Bess
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
– Zooey Deschanel
“Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.”
– Gene Simmons
“I couldn’t tell you my wedding anniversary. Although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July.”
– Claudia Winkleman
“Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek.”
– Edward Moore
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter
“We all know you can’t have a Fourth of July barbecue without the fixings that go with it.”
– Rachel Hollis
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
– George R.R. Martin
“If ant hills are high in July, the coming winter will be hard.”
– American Proverb
“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack.”
– China Miéville
“Hot days and sultry nights and crashing thunderstorms are a part of July, and to the drone of bees in the clover fields will soon be added the high-pitched sibilance of the cicada.”
– Hal Borland
“If the first of July be rainy weather, it will rain, more or less, for four weeks together.”
– John Ray
“My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
– George R.R. Martin
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl.”
– Maggie Stiefvater
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore
“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”
– Unknown
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
– Anna Godbersen
Want more inspiration for your summer? Then have a look at the short summer quotes here, the inspirational summer quotes in this post and also this one with plenty of funny summer quotes.