100 April Quotes To Welcome The Spring

Welcome to the month of April! This is a time when flowers are blooming and the weather is starting to get warmer. It’s also a time for new beginnings, as we approach the end of the first quarter of the year. To celebrate this special month, we’ve collected 100 quotes about April! These quotes are sure to inspire and motivate you as you go through your day. Enjoy!

Things That Happen in April (Holidays, special occasions, fun facts about April)

• The start of spring & blooming flowers
• April Fools Day (April 1st)
• Earth Day (April 22nd)
• Passover
• Easter
• National Poetry Month
• National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day (April 12th)
• International Pillow Fight Day (April 1st)
• National Beer Day
• National Siblings Day
• Zodiac Signs: Aries (March 21 – April 19) & Taurus (April 20 – May 20)
• World Autism Awareness Day (April 2nd)

April Quotes

1. “April splinters like an ice palace.” – Ruth Stone
2. “April showers bring forth May flowers.” – Proverb
3. “I shine in tears like the sun in April.” – Cyril Tourneur
4. “Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!” – W. H. Gibson
5. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser
6. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler
7. “April is a promise that May is bound to keep.” – Hal Borland
8. “Sweet April showers / Do bring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser
9. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
10. “Oh to be in England now that April’s there.” – Robert Browning
11. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lilly Pulitzer
12. “Sweet April’s tears / Dead on the hem of May.” – Alexander Smith
13. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
14. “Oh the lovely fickleness of an April day!” – William Hamilton Gibson
15. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” William Shakespeare
16. “April. Month of dust and lies.” – Naguib Mahfouz, “Adrift on the Nile”
17. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
18. “April weather, rain and sunshine both together.” – English Country Saying
19. “Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.” – William Shakespeare
20. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
21. “Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
22. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” – Virgil A. Kraft
23. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” – Bishop Reginald Heber
24. “Hello, April. Please, be a month of rebirth, regrowth, and renewal.” – Anonymous
25. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
26. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
27. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne W. Dyer
28. “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson
29. “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” – E.Y. Harburg
30. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
31. “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, “Go!” – Christopher Morley
32. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell
33. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
34. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
35. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
36. “Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.” – L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Windy Poplars”
37. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” – William James
38. “If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” – Buddy de Sylva
39. “The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
40. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
41. “April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.” – Marty Rubin
42. “Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.” – Rebecca McNutt
43. “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” – Charles Lamb
44. “April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.” – Angus Wilson
45. “Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads ’em.” – Thomas Otway
46. “Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.” – Byron Caldwell Smith
47. “The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.” – Christopher Columbus
48. “Snow in April is abominable,” said Anne. “Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.” – L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Ingleside”
49. “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
50. “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
51. “Although I was born in April, I’m quite certain I was not fully awake until October.” – Peggy Toney Horton, “Stop the World and Get Off”
52. “Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime.” – Akash B Chandran
53. “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
54. “It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads.” – Jess Kidd
55. “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
56. “The April winds are magical / And thrill our tuneful frames / The garden-walks are passional / To bachelors and dames.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “April”
57. “April was just beginning, and after the warm spring day it turned cooler, slightly frosty, and a breath of spring could be felt in the soft, cold air.” – Anton Chekov
58. “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
59. “When bullying April bruised mine eyes / With sleet-bound appetites and crude / Experiments of green, I still was wise / And kissed the blossoming rod.” – Cecil Day-Lewis
60. “For April sobs while these are so glad / April weeps while these are so gay / Weeps like a tired child who had / Playing with flowers, lost its way.” – Helen Hunt Jackson
61. “So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.” – Robert Bridges
62. “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
63. “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
64. “The children with the streamlets sing, / When April stops at last her weeping / And every happy growing thing / Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.” – Lucy Larcom, “The Sister Months”
65. “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
66. “Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn / Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May / New blooming blossoms ‘neath the sun are born / And all poor April’s charms are swept away.” – John Clare
67. “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”
68. “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” – Mark Twain
69. “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 (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey), “April”
70. “The tantalizing scent transported me to a white, sandy beach lapped by a turquoise sea under a tropical sun. Lime and coconut were the getaway flavors my bakery customers needed in April, tax time.” – Judith Fertig
71. “They came on one of April’s most brilliant days-a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon…a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from the tipsy brush of Monet.” – Beverley Nichols
72. “When April winds / Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush / Of scarlet flowers / The tulip tree, high up / Opened, in airs of June, her multitude / Of golden chalices to humming birds / And silken-wing’d insects of the sky.” – William Cullen Bryant
73. “Sweet April-time- O cruel April-time! / Year after year returning, with a brow / Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, / And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys / Of vanished springs, like flowers.” – Mrs. Craik (Dinah Maria Mulock), “April”
74. “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
75. “Now the noisy winds are still / April’s coming up the hill / All the spring is in her train / Led by shining ranks of rain / Pit, pat, patter, clatter / Sudden sun and clatter patter / All things ready with a will / April’s coming up the hill!” – Mary Mapes Dodge, “Now the Noisy Winds Are Still”
76. “Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.” – Barbara Kingsolver
77. “I shine in tears like the sun in April.” – Cyril Tourneur
78. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser
79. “April is a promise that May is bound to keep.” – Hal Borland
80. “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.” – Robert Browning
81. “No one wants to take a vacation on April 15 or 16.” – George Hill
82. “April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.” – Anne Wojcicki
83. “April 2nd is a memorable moment of my cricketing career.” – Virender Sehwag
84. “Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.” – Jami Gertz
85. “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” – E. Y. Harburg
86. “April was my first major role and provided me with my Equity card.” – Conchata Ferrell
87. “It is important to raise Autism Awareness, not only in April, but year round.” – Jim Justice
88. “The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.” – Adrian McKinty
89. “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” – Mark Twain
90. “The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.” – August Wilson
91. “At the end of April I archived ‘Curses’ and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.” – Graham Nelson
92. “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” – Charles Lamb
93. “I started training in January in 1993 and my first match was in April of that same year.” – Christopher Daniels
94. “My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.” – Nick Nurse
95. “Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads ’em.” – Thomas Otway
96. “The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.” – Christopher Columbus
97. “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.” – Ronald Reagan
98. “When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool’s sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.” – Alan Alda
99. “After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.” – Suzy Bogguss
100. “When I was at ESPN, I would say in April, ‘We should be doing something on the NFL,’ and they laughed at me.” – Rich Eisen

Wrapping Up

So, no matter where you are or what you’re doing in April, there is something to inspire and motivate us. Whether it’s a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Mapes Dodge, or Robert Browning – they all provide insight on the idea of renewal that comes with this beautiful month. No matter how gray the skies may be, it’s always nice to have a reminder that April is here and the light will eventually break through. From all of us at Quotena, we hope you make the most of this month and enjoy the transition into spring!

Happy April!