March has a funny way of making you reach for your sunglasses and your winter coat on the same day. The first flowers start peeking out, the afternoons feel a little brighter, and one sunny walk is enough to get you dreaming about picnic weather. Sure, winter might have a few surprise appearances left, but spring fever is already settling in.
These 125 March quotes capture that mix of fresh-start energy, weather-related humor, and hope for warmer days. Whether you’re looking for an Instagram caption, a cheerful message to a friend, a few words for a card, or a little encouragement for yourself, there’s something here to match your mood. Let’s welcome March—even if we’re still wearing mittens.
Table of Contetns
- Hello March Quotes to Welcome the New Month
- Short March Quotes for a Little Spring Spark
- Funny March Quotes for Spring Fever and Unpredictable Weather
- Inspirational March Quotes for Fresh Starts
- March Quotes About Spring and Nature Waking Up
- March Quotes for Brighter Days and a Little Hope
- March Quotes About Growth and New Beginnings
Hello March Quotes to Welcome the New Month
1. “Dear March—Come in— / How glad I am—” — Emily Dickinson
2. “March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know.” — Emily Dickinson
3. “March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.” — Sara Coleridge
4. “The stormy March is come at last” — William Cullen Bryant
5. “Daffodils, / That come before the swallow dares, and take / The winds of March with beauty.” — William Shakespeare
6. “March, when days are getting long, / Let thy growing hours be strong / To set right some wintry wrong.” — Caroline May
7. “March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that enkindle the season they smite.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne
8. “Smiling, I watch the shaken elm-boughs, knowing / It is the wind of March.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
9. “Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “A light exists in spring / Not present on the year / At any other period.” — Emily Dickinson
11. “There’s joy in the mountains; / There’s life in the fountains” — William Wordsworth
12. “There is no time like Spring, / When life’s alive in everything” — Christina Rossetti
13. “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring” — Gerard Manley Hopkins
14. “Spring, the sweet spring” — Thomas Nashe
15. “Birds delight / Day and Night.” — William Blake
16. “Small clouds are sailing, / Blue sky prevailing; / The rain is over and gone!” — William Wordsworth
17. “Oh March, Come right upstairs with me— / I have so much to tell—” — Emily Dickinson
18. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Short March Quotes for a Little Spring Spark
19. “This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint.” — Lisa Kleypas
20. “A little Madness in the Spring / Is wholesome even for the King” — Emily Dickinson
21. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne
22. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” — Leo Tolstoy
23. “Nothing ever seems impossible in Spring, you know.” — L. M. Montgomery
24. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde
25. “Earth laughs in flowers” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “The merry bells ring / To welcome the Spring.” — William Blake
27. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” — Anne Bradstreet
28. “The spring is fresh and fearless / And every leaf is new” — Sara Teasdale
29. “The trees are coming into leaf / Like something almost being said” — Philip Larkin
30. “Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day” — Robert Frost
31. “The year’s at the spring / And day’s at the morn” — Robert Browning
32. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough” — A. E. Housman
33. “And the Spring arose on the garden fair, / Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
34. “Young grass springs on the plain” — Christina Rossetti
35. “My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky” — William Wordsworth
36. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” — Lilly Pulitzer
Funny March Quotes for Spring Fever and Unpredictable Weather
37. “March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.” — Hal Borland
38. “Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes.” — Ogden Nash
39. “I tried it once, but the wind veered north, / And the ink froze on my pen.” — Ellen P. Allerton
40. “In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours.” — Mark Twain
41. “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” — Doug Larson
42. “Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!” — Wallace Stevens
43. “Summer makes me drowsy, Autumn makes me sing, Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.” — Dorothy Parker
44. “Well, me and Tom Sawyer had the spring fever, and had it bad, too” — Mark Twain
45. “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” — Carl Reiner
46. “Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.” — George Carlin
47. “Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.” — Kin Hubbard
48. “Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.” — Kin Hubbard
49. “Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.” — Oscar Wilde
50. “It ‘forecasts’ precisely what happened yesterday or a the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen to-day.” — Jerome K. Jerome
51. “I do think that we talk about the weather with a lot of people who don’t know anything about it.” — Robert Benchley
52. “A wind comes off a frozen peak, / And you’re two months back in the middle of March.” — Robert Frost
53. “What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” — Jane Austen
54. “March away with noisy drum / For the flowers want to come” — Annette Wynne
Inspirational March Quotes for Fresh Starts
55. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” — L. M. Montgomery
56. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. “I dwell in Possibility” — Emily Dickinson
58. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
59. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh
60. “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
61. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
62. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
63. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. “He started to sing as he tackled the thing / That couldn’t be done, and he did it.” — Edgar Guest
65. “But to act, that each to-morrow / Finds us farther than to-day.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
66. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
67. “Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul” — Emily Dickinson
68. “Like an army defeated / The snow hath retreated” — William Wordsworth
69. “Telling of the hidden life / That breaks forth underneath” — Christina Rossetti
70. “When March is packed at last to go, / Every twig will start to grow” — Annette Wynne
71. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.” — Henry David Thoreau
72. “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, / Healthy, free, the world before me” — Walt Whitman
March Quotes About Spring and Nature Waking Up
73. “Little flowers begin their growing / Far beneath our feet.” — Mary Mapes Dodge
74. “Oh, spring is surely coming, / Her couriers fill the air” — John Burroughs
75. “I am waiting for the flowers / To come back” — Hilda Conkling
76. “Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring / In triumph to the world the youthful Spring.” — Thomas Carew
77. “There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, / And swallows circling with their shimmering sound” — Sara Teasdale
78. “The sky has given over / its bitterness.” — William Carlos Williams
79. “The Spring comes in with all her hues and smells, / In freshness breathing over hills and dells” — John Clare
80. “Shall we wake one morn of spring, / Glad at heart of everything” — William Morris
81. “I’d listen to the daylight birds / That build their nests and pair and sing” — Christina Rossetti
82. “And let thy holy feet visit our clime.” — William Blake
83. “When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush” — Gerard Manley Hopkins
84. “While happy winds go laughing by” — Claude McKay
85. “The smell of the earth is good.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
86. “A host, of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” — William Wordsworth
87. “The robin is the one / That interrupts the morn / With hurried, few, express reports / When March is scarcely on.” — Emily Dickinson
88. “The yellow violet’s modest bell / Peeps from the last year’s leaves below.” — William Cullen Bryant
89. “Now rings the woodland loud and long, / The distance takes a lovelier hue” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
90. “Birds sing and pair again.” — Christina Rossetti
March Quotes for Brighter Days and a Little Hope
91. “Behind the clouds is the sun still shining” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
92. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland
93. “The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” — Charles Dickens
94. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve
95. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
96. “Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door” — Emily Dickinson
97. “Hold fast to dreams” — Langston Hughes
98. “And now at length I rise! I wake! / And stride into the morning break!” — Georgia Douglas Johnson
99. “Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, / And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.” — John Keats
100. “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.” — Mary Oliver
101. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
102. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast” — Alexander Pope
103. “Oft a little morning rain / Foretells a pleasant day.” — Charlotte Brontë
104. “Let the old life be covered by the new” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
105. “Hope / Smiles from the threshold of the year to come / Whispering ‘It will be happier’” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
106. “The world is so full of a number of things, / I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
107. “Blow, then, wild wind! thy roar shall end in singing, / Thy chill in blossoming” — John Greenleaf Whittier
108. “And, in thy reign of blast and storm, / Smiles many a long, bright, sunny day” — William Cullen Bryant
March Quotes About Growth and New Beginnings
