As the year comes to a close, it’s natural to reflect on the past twelve months and all that has transpired. For entrepreneurs, this can be a time of both reflection and inspiration. To help jumpstart your thinking, here are some of our favorite quotes about seasons from business leaders across the globe. Whether you’re gearing up for a new season or reflecting on one that has just passed, these insights will surely motivate and encourage you in your endeavors.

The best season quotes

1. At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream. — E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White

2. If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season. — Valentino Rossi

3. In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it. — Toni Morrison

4. She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see. — Myla Goldberg, Bee Season

5. If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season. — Shana Chartier

6. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. — Roy Bean

7. We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought. — Phyllis Diller

8. The child’s toys and the old man’s reasons are the fruits of two seasons. — William Blake

9. Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives. — Sherwood Anderson, Short Shorts

10. This season don’t get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

11. During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20–by–24 camera–which is logistically complicated–and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it. — Mary Ellen Mark

12. The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday. — Will Rogers

13. Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

14. Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most. — Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

15. ‎without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost. — Patrick Lane, There Is A Season

16. It wasn’t until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there. — Patrick Stewart

17. People might say that they liked honesty, but they didn’t, really. — Sonal Panse, The Sunshine Time: Season 1 Episode 5

18. If it’s attention you want, don’t get involved with a man during play–off season. — Rita Rudner

19. You’ll never be able to grow if you’re afraid to lose people during the process. Sometimes past relationships don’t belong in new seasons. — Trent Trenton

20. In the initial season of a show, you’re figuring out your character and their life and their background and you’re putting together all the chapters of the book. — Sophia Bush

21. When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1, 037 times in 20 years. — Red Auerbach

22. People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps. — Michael Bassey Johnson

23. At the end of the season, I normally get some time off training and can go on vacation and enjoy myself. — Usain Bolt

24. Once it gets down to single–digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired. — Stephen Curry

25. During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids. — Tom Brady

26. The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca–Cola advertising campaigns. — Richard Roeper

27. Spring is not a season — it is a mysterious illusionist who sets off fireworks in the depths of our soul!

28. They always say to Californians that we don’t have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought. — Phyllis Diller

29. Do this research if we don’t have a season––watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game. — Ray Lewis

30. I pretty much live in my denim jacket. The best thing about this piece is that I can wear it for every season. — Rachel Hollis

31. You lack the season of all natures, sleep. — William Shakespeare

32. The seasons alter: hoary–headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose. — William Shakespeare

33. Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen. — A. H. Mcintosh

34. Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge. — Tommy Hilfiger

35. Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer…It was the worst. That was swimsuit season. — Teresa Lo, Realities: a Collection of Short Stories

36. If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season. — Valentino Rossi

37. Winter = baking season. It’s on. — Taylor Swift

38. I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good. — Sirio Maccioni

39. Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It’s kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us. — Paula Deen

40. At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream. — E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White

41. In the fulfillment of every divine destiny, there are seasons of shadows and season of sunshine, recognizing the season makes the journey beautiful. — Richard Okorie

42. The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers. — Moonshine Noire

43. America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith. — Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

44. On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole. — Mercy Otis Warren

45. When you cant decipher the seasons, you are unable to know your destiny. — Paul Gitwaza

46. I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of. — Shannon L. Alder

47. If you look at my bookings, they’ve gone down each season. That’s something I’m trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don’t want any silly bookings. — Wayne Rooney

48. It’s a huge accomplishment coming off a championship and taking care of business 15 straight times to start the season, you couldn’t ask for a better start, obviously. — Stephen Curry

49. A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons. — Shiv Khera

50. I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again. — Osamu Dazai

Conclusion

We hope these quotes have inspired you to make the most of the season and enjoy each moment! Whether you’re enjoying the warmth of summer or the coziness of winter, take a moment to appreciate the beauty of the season and all it has to offer. Enjoy the changing of the seasons and make sure to take some time to appreciate the beauty of nature and the world around us.