30 Fall Motivational Quotes to Kick Off the Season Right
New season, new mindset. If you’re looking for a little push to get focused as fall settles in, these motivational quotes are a good place to start.
Some are about change, some are about staying consistent, and a few just work well as a quick reminder to keep going.
Save your favorites for a journal, a caption, or just a moment when you need them.
Fall Motivational Quotes

“Fall is proof that change can be beautiful.”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Nothing gold can stay.” – Robert Frost
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” – Emily Brontë
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
“Change is a measure of time.” – Edwin Way Teale
“What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.” – Edwin Way Teale
“Begin the hours of this day slow.” – Robert Frost
“Make the day seem to us less brief.” – Robert Frost
“Retard the sun with gentle mist.” – Robert Frost
“Enchant the land with amethyst.” – Robert Frost
“Nature’s first green is gold.” – Robert Frost
“Her hardest hue to hold.” – Robert Frost
“The leaves fall, fall as from far.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Thus all doth fall.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“There is a harmony in autumn.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“With what a glory comes and goes the year!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A sober gladness the old year takes up.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Pouring new glory on the autumn woods.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The summer’s late atoning for its sadness.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
“Had borrowed every season’s charm to end its days in gladness.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
“Spring shall warm my frozen heart.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
“I shall smile when wreaths of snow blossom where the rose should grow.” – Emily Brontë
“I shall sing when night’s decay ushers in a drearier day.” – Emily Brontë
“The world is too beautiful this year.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
“My soul is all but out of me.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The autumn raises dun mists and hazes.” – Madison Julius Cawein
“The dying Year leans low to hear her own heart breaking.” – Madison Julius Cawein
“The year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop