I love April. It’s when things really start to warm up and come to life. This new month feels like a fresh start in so many ways, and I always get all sorts of warm and fuzzy feelings all month long. I also love a good motivational or inspirational quote. So today, I’m sharing some favorite April quotes for you to tape to your mirror, put on your letter board, or jot into your planner.

Whether you love the jokes and pranks on April 1st (not my thing), or you just love the warmth and the sunshine, April has a little something for everyone. Below, you’ll find quotes on quotes everything from April Fools Day to quotes about the weather and everything in-between. Let’s welcome April together!

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April Quotes

  • “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” ― William Shakespeare (Sonnet XCVIII)
  • “April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies. Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!” – Charles G.D. Roberts.
  • “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” ― T.S. Eliot
  • “April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.” – Vita Sackville-West
  • “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” – Mark Twain
  • “April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.” ― Marty Rubin
  • “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, “Go!” ― Christopher Morley
  • “There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye. There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.” ― William Cullen Bryant
  • “Again the blackbirds sings; the streams
    Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams
    And tremble in the April showers
    The tassels of the maple flowers.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier

More April Quotes from Authors + More

  • “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.” ― Hal Borland
  • “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” – Charles Lamb
  •  “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” – Mark Twain
  • “Hello April. Please, be a month of rebirth, regrowth, and renewal.” – Anonymous
  • “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell
  • “Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.” ― John Greenleaf Whittier
  • “Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “The sun was warm but the wind was chill / You know how it is with an April day / When the sun is out and the wind is still / You’re one month on in the middle of May.” – Robert Frost (Two Tramps in Mud Time)

Quotes About April Weather

  • “April weather, rain and sunshine both together.” ― English Country Saying
  • “Snow in April is abominable,” said Anne. “Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.” ― L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Ingleside)
  • “If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” ― Buddy de Sylva
  • “A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew
    A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning
    Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue
    An April day in the morning.”
    ― Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • “No rain, no flowers. ” ― Haruki Murakami
  • “Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!” – W. H. Gibson
  • “Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops / Let the rain sing you a lullaby” – Langston Hughes
  • “Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.” ― Byron Caldwell Smith
  • “The April winds are magical / And thrill our tuneful frames / The garden-walks are passional / To bachelors and dames.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.” ― Thomas Tusser
  • “A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning.” ― Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • “Every tear is answered by a blossom. Every sigh with songs and laughter blent. April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.” – Susan Coolidge
  • “Sweet April’s tears, dead on the hem of May.” – Alexander Smith
  • “But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.” – William Cowper
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Quotes About Spring

  • “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda
  • “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.”― Anita Krizzan
  • “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” ― Doug Larson
  • “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” ― Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘let’s party.’” – Robin Williams
  • “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler
  • “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” – Virgil A. Kraft
  • “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
  • “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet
  • “No matter how long winter is, spring is sure to follow.” ― Proverb
  • “I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.” – Langston Hughes
  • “Life will get warmer. – Anita Krizzan
  • I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. – Langston Hughes
  • “The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Inspirational + Motivational Quotes

Always keep moving forward,
Pushing your limits, and
Remember, each obstacle
Is a chance to grow, to
Learn from the past and thrive.

  • “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” —John Wooden
  • “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “In the April of life, the days are sweet and fragrant.” ― Sarah Dessen
  • “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”― Wayne W. Dyer
  • “April is the time to turn over a new leaf.” ― Terri Guillemets
  • “April is the cruelest month, but also the most necessary for growth.” ― Elizabeth Gray
  • “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”― Steve Maraboli
  • “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”― Roy T. Bennett
  • “April is a bridge between thd harsh reality of winter and the beauty of spring.” ― Shannon Alder
  • “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ― Carl Bard

What April quotes feel most inspiring and motivational to you?! Happy April!

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