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40 Best July Quotes to Inspire Freedom and Fun

“It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.”

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July might bring the heat, but it’s easily one of the most enjoyable months of the year! With 31 days packed full of pool parties, patriotic celebrations (hello, 4th of July), and endless summer cookouts, it's a time to make so many unforgettable memories. What more could you ask for? If you love July for all these reasons and more, then you'll definitely appreciate this collection of July quotes. Turns out, plenty of others feel the same way about this vibrant month and have captured its essence beautifully with their words!

This list has plenty of summer quotes, though they're a bit different from those June quotes you read last month. For example, this quote by Rick Bass really puts the two months into perspective: “My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.” There are also a bunch of happy quotes and inspirational quotes on this list for those who need that summer pick-me-up. Plus, you could use any of the July quotes ahead as a summer Instagram caption, if you please!

Here are some fun ways to enjoy the month of July:

1

William C. Bryant

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“July is like the sunniest hour of the day.”

2

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the July night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.”

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3

Wallace Stevens

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“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”

4

Sarah Dessen

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“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”

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5

Mac Thornberry

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“No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.”

6

Cecil Day-Lewis

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“In June we picked the clover, and sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, no word from the sky.”

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7

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“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.”

8

Morgan Harper Nichols

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“Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don't have to fix everything. You don't have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things.”

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9

Banana Yoshimoto

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“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”

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Laura Kasischke

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“July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.”

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11

Lily Williams

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“We can just let July be July, let the sun hang in the sky, clear your mind of all the things you're waiting on.”

12

Roald Dahl

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“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”

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13

Marti Heal

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“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.”

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Aspen Matis

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“We spent June and July in the Rockies, growing stronger, feeling feral in the untamed range of mountains.”

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15

Martin Luther King Jr.

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“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.”

16

Larry the Cable Guy

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“Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show – in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.”

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17

Dan Harmon

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“There are lots of emotions that go with the 4th of July.”

18

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.”

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19

Ann Voskamp

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“I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights...”

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Earl Weaver

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“I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.”

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Josiah is the Digital Content Producer for the commerce team at Popular Mechanics, Best Products, Runner’s World, and Bicycling Magazine. He also writes for “BIO Buys”—a column on Biography.com—giving readers the lowdown on what products their favorite celebs are using. In another life, Josiah was an editor at ThePioneerWoman.com, where he sharpened his expertise on all things lifestyle, food-news, and entertainment. Outside work related matters, he’s a fan of Studio Ghibli films, unimportant reality TV drama, and melancholy Lorde songs. 

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