61 July Quotes To Inspire Your Summer | Hello July
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July is the heart of summer, the month when the sun shines brighter, the days stretch longer, and life feels a little more vibrant. As the star of the summer season, July can bring us so many moments of happiness: lazy afternoons by the beach, lively picnics in the park, and late-night chats under firework-lit skies. It's no wonder people look forward to this month all year long.
In the United States, July also brings Independence Day celebrations on the Fourth of July Day/weekend. It's a time to celebrate freedom, gather with loved ones, and honor the spirit of unity and resilience.
No matter how you choose to spend the day, whether you're having a barbecue with friends, eating hot dogs, or watching fireworks light up the sky, the beginning of the month is the perfect moment to pause and reflect with some 4th of July quotes that remind us why this holiday is so meaningful.
Beyond the patriotic and summery celebrations, July is a month that offers space for inspiration, personal growth, and joy. Summer is also a season for the soul, a time to reconnect with inner child, set intentions for the second half of the year, and embrace life's colorful energy.
Incorporating positive quotes and inspirational quotes into your summer mornings can bring a refreshing mindset to your days. Words of encouragement, drive and wisdom help fuel our inner motivation and spark gratitude for even the smallest summer moments.
Whether you're journaling with summer morning affirmations, decorating your feed with sunshine-filled July caption, celebrating America's birthday, or just need a little mental boost, this collection of July quotes is for you.
Let these words accompany you throughout the month, guiding you through sun-soaked adventures, quiet reflections, busy afternoons and everything in between.
Get ready to say "Hello, July" with these uplifting quotes about July and summer, and celebrate the month in all its glory. Soak up the sunshine, dance like none's watching and chase your dreams like never before!
We hope these 61 July quotes will inspire you to live boldly, love deeply, and appreciate every summer day.
Positive July Month Quotes to Celebrate Summer Moments
“…it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”― Kenny Chesney
“Just living isn't enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” ― Hans Christian Anderson
“July is a blind date with summer.” ― Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons
“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 Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
“And you're the one
You're my guiding light
My lightning bug
In mid July
You should always know
That I'd be lost without you”― Mid July, Sam Lewis
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer” ― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
“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, The Great Gatsby
“Then followed that beautiful season,
Called by the pious Acadian peasants the Summer of All-Saints!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the
landscape” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”― Albert Camus
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”― Henry James
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”― Susan Polis Schutz
“Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots, and gillyflowers.” ― Sara Coleridge
Inspirational Quotes for the Month of July
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”― Steve Maraboli
“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“What's meant to be will always find a way”― Trisha Yearwood
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”― Walt Disney Company, Mulan
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?” ― Erin Hanson
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”― George Herman Ruth
“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”― Karen E. Quinones Miller
“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”― Leo F. Buscaglia
“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”― Mary Kay Ash
“What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month, every year? Let me get you started. My one thing is this, ‘I'm one day closer...’ One day closer to a goal, an outcome, or the results I'm after in my life. This is my way of remembering the importance of focusing on the life I desire and living a life of gratitude! So, what’s your one thing…?”― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“Keep going. No matter what you do, no matter how many times you screw up and think to yourself "there's no point to carry on", no matter how many people tell you that you can't do it - keep going. Don't quit. Don't quit because a month from now you will be that much closer to your goal than you are now. Yesterday you said tomorrow. Make today count.” ― Anonymous
Independence Day and 4th of July Quotes
“With freedom comes responsibility.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” ― Arthur Ashe
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” — Abraham Lincoln
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis
“America is another name for opportunity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Freedom is the color of red. It is saturated with the blood of those who fought to attain it, and it will continue to be colored by the blood of those who fight to protect it.”― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.” – Irving Berlin
“Happy birthday America! Today we celebrate the land of the free thanks to the Brave” – unknown
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Let the freedom fought for us by the heroes of this country never be in vain. Let us all work hand in hand to protect it.” Happy Independence Day – unknown
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
“From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.” — Samuel F. Smith
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” — William Faulkner
“It’s a party in the U.S.A.” — Miley Cyrus, “Party in the U.S.A.”
Other famous July quotes
“Hot summer nights, mid-July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child.”— Young and Beautiful, Lana Del Rey
“A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July” — Lewis Carroll
“We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. 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, This Side of Paradise
“But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.”― Joanna Franklin Bell, Take a Load Off, Mona Jamborski
“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
“Then came July like three o'clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.” ― Allie Ray, Holler
“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, Overtures to Death and Other Poems
“Your body laying next to mine
Loan star state in mid July
Lonely days, just you and I
Yeah there's bad but good despite
Cross my heart and hope to die
By your side in mid July.”― Mid July, Sucré
“There was an excitability about him that seemed it could dissipate at any moment as though he were Christmas in July but rather than sporting holiday cheer and sparkling fireworks, he offered the showing of amateur eggnog hangover…”― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez
“The love was beyond intense. It was to the point where I could write a thousand poems simply about the way he held my hand on July 13th…”― Dominic Riccitello
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”― Edna St. Vincent Millay
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”― Nizar Qabbani
“I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell sleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour and memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times. I was a singer, not a very popular one, who once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet- but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again- sparkling and broken. But I really didn’t mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.” – Lana del Rey
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
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Besitos,
Laura
