Spring Quotes to Remind You That the Beauty of the Season is Just Around the Corner

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By this time every year we are so ready to hang up the heavy coats and break outdoors into the warmer weather to enjoy some much-needed Vitamin D. While waiting for the weather to sink into the ideal crisp mornings followed by warm sun-drenched afternoons, we thought it'd be refreshing to gather inspirational spring quotes for our memo books and personal motivation. If you're a teacher, these spring quotes make a great fit for the letter board in your classroom. Or if you're looking for a way to cheer up your home office, consider this a comprehensive list of spring letter board quotes. Of course, spring is also the time for cleaning and organizing our space, so these quotes are sure to cheer you up and motivate you to get started on the nitty-gritty tasks.

Mama never skimped out on making sure that her home was always neat as a pin, so we only hope to channel her energy while diving into our spring-cleaning checklist. Drapes dusted and steamed? Check. Towel supply refreshed? Check. Pantry and freezer wiped down and cleaned out? Check and double check. Whichever way you celebrate the beginning of spring, funny spring quotes and inspirational spring quotes are sure to inspire your inner outdoors lover and make you all the more grateful for the changing of the season.

Throw open the shutters and let that bright spring weather into your home. The daffodils are even acting as yellow trumpets to announce that spring is almost here! To inspire you with the closet cleaning, baseboard scrubbing, and life organization, we've gathered some thought provoking and light-hearted springtime quotes to enjoy. From Lilly Pulitzer's motto that we should live every day like it's spring to Robert Frost's astute characterization of an April day, these spring quotes are sure to get you in the mood to hop to whatever is on your seasonal bucket list. Happy Spring!

"A life without love is like a year without spring." – Octavian Paler

"An optimist is the human personification of spring." – Susan J. Bissonette

"April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go." – Christopher Morley

"Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons; it's a rebirth of the spirit." - Toni Sorenson

"Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" – Neltje Blanchan

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." - Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

"If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant." - Anne Bradstreet

"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring." - Lilly Pulitzer

"Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom." - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

"In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside 24 hours." - Mark Twain

"The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing." – S. Brown

"Blossom by blossom the spring begins." – Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be." – Unknown

"Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil." – Bishop Reginald Heber

"Spring work is going on joyful enthusiasm." – John Muir

"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love." – Sitting Bull

"In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion and kisses whizzing by your head." – Emma Racine Defleur

"With the coming of spring, I am calm again." – Gustav Mahler

"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring." – Bernard Williams

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." – George Santayana

"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming." – Pablo Neruda

"'Is the spring coming?,' he said. 'What is it like?'…'It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…'" – Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day." – W. Earl Hall

"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat." – Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring." – Vladimir Nabokov

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring." – Victor Hugo

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill You know how it is with an April day." – Robert Frost

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything." – William Shakespeare

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." – Charles Dickens

"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

"A kind word is like a spring day." – Russian Proverb

"The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also." – Harriet Ann Jacobs

"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." – Gertrude Wister

"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn." – Lewis Grizzard

"Spring is nature's way of saying 'Let's Party!'." – Robin Williams

"Spring is the time of plans and projects." – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina