June is here, with all the warmth and sunshine we’ve been waiting for.
And to help you to get your summer started just right I’d like to share 110 of the most positive, funny and inspirational June quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to make your early summer days happy and beautiful. Your time with family and friends at the beach, picnics or barbecues more fun and positive.
And something that will help you to make a fresh start in some part of your life if you need it this summer.
Inspirational June Quotes
“June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.”
– Joan D. Chittister
“June is the pearl of summer, shining with warmth and joy.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“June is the time for dreams to take flight and soar into reality.”
– Emma Racine de Fleur
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
– James Russell Lowell
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
– John Steinbeck
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”
– Hal Borland
“And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.”
– Abba Woolson
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
– Al Bernstein
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
– Maud Hart Lovelace
“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
– Marie Lu
“It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses, when pleasant sights salute the eyes and pleasant scents the noses.”
– Nathaniel Parker Willis
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda
“June is the gateway to summer.”
– Jean Hersey
“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”
– Bernard Williams
“In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June 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
“June suns, you cannot store them to warm the winter’s cold.”
– A.E. Housman
“On this June day, the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year, those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled.”
– Francis King
“June is a love song written by nature.”
– Patience Strong
“In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.”
– Aldo Leopold
“This is June, the month of grass and leaves. Already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“June brings tulips, lilies, roses, fills the children’s hands with posies.”
– Sara Coleridge
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery
Positive June Quotes and Sayings for a Happy Month
“I realized June had never been just a month. Music never just a tremble on my lips. Warmth was never merely a blanket.”
– Sanober Khan
“Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer
“Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems.”
– Mia Moretti
“May June bring you joy, happiness, love, and lots of sunshine.”
– Unknown
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.”
– Charles Morgan
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before.”
– Margaret Atwood
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!”
– Kenny Chesney
“It’s beautiful, the summer month of June, and the sun shines most of the day brightly.”
– Francis Duggan
“It’s June in January because I’m in love. It always is spring in my heart with you in my arms.”
– Leo Robin
“The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted. The cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake. The satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze. June had arrived.”
– J.K. Rowling
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
“There are two seasons when the leaves are in their glory, their green and perfect youth in June and their ripe old age.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“So mellow the gentle breath of June day breeze. The birds rejoicing on the leafy trees and dappled trout in the pool bed of the stream, basking in the sun their spotted skins agleam.”
– Francis Duggan
“I was born in June, so I like summer, and my favorite part of a sunny day is when the sun sets.”
– Jorja Smith
“I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not – it’s not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.”
– Edmund Hillary
Funny June Quotes for 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
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“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
“What was told by August when June claimed today to be the month’s last day? Do not July to me!”
– Unknown
“A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker
“Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!”
– Diane Duane
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell
“A daughter has been born to my wife and me just now, and we named our girl as June July August – short for summer!”
– Unknown
“I don’t tan, I burn.”
– Unknown
“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.”
– Sam Cooke
“If you’re not barefoot on the beach day in June, then you’re overdressed.”
– Unknown
“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
– Anne Sexton
“I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing.”
– Unknown
“It’s so goddamn cold, it’s gonna snow until June.”
– Jimmy Buffett
“Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet.”
– Justin Timberlake
“It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.”
– Mark Twain
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan
“God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.”
– Rachel Caine
“Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.”
– Gayland Anderson
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett
Beautiful Hello June Quotes to Welcome This Wonderful Month
“Hello, June! Please be a month of peace, love and picnics in the sun.”
– Unknown
“The fountain murmuring of sleep, a drowsy tune. The flickering green of leaves that keep the light of June. Peace, through a slumbering afternoon, the peace of June.”
– Arthur Symons
“June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers. In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o’er her, in vain would fond winds fan her back to life, her hours are numbered on the floral dial.”
– Lucy Larcom
“Hello, June! Now the days are going to be hotter and the nights even longer. I love it.”
– Unknown
“Let it be June, bring the summer beach back, and let our life be simple again.”
– Unknown
“Not ’till June can the grass be said to be waving in the fields. When the frogs dream, and the grass waves, and the buttercups toss their heads, and the heat disposes to bathe in the ponds and streams, then is summer begun.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Ocean, summer, beach, and barbecues – we all live for June.”
– Unknown
“This is the smell of June, honeysuckle, green hay, wet linen hung out to dry.”
– Lisa Kleypas
“Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.”
– Andy Goldsworthy
“Take it easy, don’t rush things. Half-year is gone, but hey, welcome, June.”
– Unknown
“June, the month of months, flowers and fruitage brings too. When green trees spread shadiest boughs, when each wild bird sings too.”
– Christina Rossetti
“Welcome first June and end 30th June by setting goals, saying prayers, and working hard.”
– Unknown
“A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.”
– English Saying
“Life is at the beach. All you have to do is find your wave in June.”
– Unknown
“Long about knee-deep in June, ’bout the time strawberries melts on the vine.”
– James Whitcomb Riley
“In a bowl to the sea, went wise men three. On a brilliant night of June, they carried a net, and their hearts were set on fishing up the moon.”
– Thomas Love Peacock
“The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before, but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever.”
– Enid Blyton
“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”
– Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
“Ten o’clock, the broken moon hangs not yet a half-hour high, yellow as a shield of brass. In the dewy air of June, poised between the vaulted sky and the ocean’s liquid glass.”
– Emma Lazarus
“Under the snowdrift, the blossoms are sleeping. Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, down in the hush of their quiet they’re keeping. Thrills from the throstle’s wild summer-swung tune.”
– Harriet Prescott Spofford
“The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers and dreams of countless Junes return when the lake-wind murmurs through golden August noons.”
– William Stanley Braithwaite
Short Inspirational June Quotes for Your Letter Board
“Summer was our best season.”
– Harper Lee
“I felt like summer had taken me over.”
– Junot Diaz
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden
“June is bustin’ out all over.”
– from the song by Rodgers and Hammerstein
“I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“A life without love is like a year without summer.”
– Swedish Proverb
“June had drawn out every leaf on the trees.”
– Virginia Woolf
“I have laughed more than daffodils and cried more than June.”
– Sanober Khan
“Oh, my love’s like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June.”
– John Barrowman
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare
“Summer is a verb.”
– Lisa Birnbach
“June is the magical month.”
– Unknown
“Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels.”
– Joni Mitchell
“I know well that the June rains just fall.”
– Onitsura
“A bird in the boughs sang June.”
– Clinton Scollard
“Guess the worst day of June was the one where I met you.”
– Taylor Swift
“All June I bound the rose in sheaves.”
– Robert Browning
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han
“Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!”
– Unknown
“June comes in with roses in her hand.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I always try to have a vacation.”
– Sophia Loren
“It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June.”
– Vita Sackville-West
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“No price is set on the lavish summer. June may be had by the poorest comer.”
– James Russell Lowell
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes.”
– Ada Louise
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens
Want more summer inspiration? Then check out these short summer quotes, the inspirational summer quotes in this post and also this one with funny summer quotes.