50+ Friday Inspirational Quotes to Boost Your Work Motivation

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Your potential is endless—you must believe in it."

- Ryan Zofay

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally; it comes from what you do consistently."

- Marie Forleo

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Gratitude shifts everything."

- Ryan Zofay

"You are one decision away from a completely different life."

- Ryan Zofay

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J Walker

"You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you."

- Tony Morgan

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"This Friday, finish your work and be done. Look forward to the weekend and have some fun!"

- Kate Summers

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’"

- Cory Booker

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

- Aristotle

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Molière

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

- George Washington

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Let each day be your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."

- George Sand

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Change your way of thinking. Use your energy to accomplish more productive things. The choice is yours and it can be made today!"

- Garrett Kingston

"I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you. It’s Friday I’m in love."

- The Cure

"Music always sounds better on Friday."

- Lou Brutus

"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it."

- Lou Holtz

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"Trust yourself. You probably know more than you think you do… Trust that you can learn anything."

- Melinda French Gates

"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"Owning up to your vulnerabilities is a form of strength."

- Lizzo

"The reality is: Sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens. And it happens when it needs to happen. And you need to embrace those things."

- Beyoncé

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"Self-care is really rooted in self-preservation, just like self-love is rooted in honesty. We have to start being more honest with what we need, and what we deserve, and start serving that to ourselves. It can be a spa day! But for a lot of people, it's more like, I need a mentor. I need someone to talk to. I need to see someone who looks like me that's successful, that's doing the things that I want to do, to know that it's possible."

- Lizzo

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"Whether I fail or succeed, it’s the going for it."

- Jonathan Van Ness

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Friday is about hanging out with friends, having fun."

- Rebecca Black

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"The more I want to get something done the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom."

- Lauren Oliver

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."

- Robin Williams

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"I hate that word: ‘lucky.’ It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it."

- Andrena Sawyer

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

- Theophrastus

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Happiness is the highest good."

- Aristotle

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

- Omar Khayyam

"Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings."

- Proverbs 22:29

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

- John 1:5

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."

- Richard Bach

"Labor conquers all things."

- Virgil

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."

- Richard Whately

"The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?"

- Steve Schulte

"Act without expectation."

- Lao Tzu

"The journey is the reward."

- Chinese proverb

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."

- John Vance Cheney

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"

- Lao Tzu

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

- William Penn

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"It's finally Friday, I'm free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend."

- George Jones

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

- Robert Frost

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is yourer than you."

- Dr. Seuss

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

- A.A. Milne

"Your time is limited; don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing."

- Florence Welch

"On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work."

- Douglas Booth

"Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing."

- Derek Jeter

"A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book."

- Robert M. Gates

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffet

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Woo girl, need to kick off your shoes / Got to take a deep breath, time to focus on you"

- Lizzo

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first."

- Anna Quindlen

"Punctuality is the soul of business."

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family."

- Bo Bennett

"Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?"

- Marilyn vos Savant

"Pretend like it’s the weekend … We could pretend it all the time."

- Jack Johnson

"I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well."

- Jimmy Bennett

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi

"Finish every day and be done with it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

- E. E. Cummings

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy."

- Marcel Proust

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."

- Ben Jonson

"A cheerful heart is good medicine."

- Proverbs 17:22

"The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness."

- William Shakespeare

"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new."

- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

- Kate Chopin

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

- Aristotle

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

- William Shakespeare

"Common sense is not so common."

- Voltaire

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."

- Camille Pissarro

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."

- Joseph Addison

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

- Oscar Wilde

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

- Voltaire

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

- Michel de Montaigne

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight."

- Epictetus

"The early bird catches the worm."

- William Camden

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Money often costs too much."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The art is not in making money, but in keeping it."

- Proverb

"He who will not economize will have to agonize."

- Confucius

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

- William Shakespeare

"The night is the mother of thoughts."

- John Florio

"Night is the other half of life, and the better half."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."

- Cicero

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."

- William James

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

- Aesop

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

- Jean Baptiste Massieu

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"The weekends are too short for sleep!"

- Bryant A. Loney

"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

- John Shirley

"Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

- Milton Berle

"Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest."

- D.S. Mixel

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

- Oscar Wilde

"Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night."

- Chrissy Teigen

"Weekends don’t pay as well as weekdays but at least there’s football."

- S.A. Sachs

"I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years."

- Vanilla Ice

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Your Friday productivity is the secret sauce in your success sandwich."

"Friday is your weekly reminder that balance is the key to sustainable success."

"Don’t just end your week; elevate it. Make Friday your personal growth day."

"Friday: Where productivity meets possibility. Finish strong, start stronger."

"On Fridays, we don’t just clock out; we level up our aspirations."

"Friday isn’t about escaping work; it’s about celebrating your weekly victories."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Friday isn’t just the end of your work week; it’s the launchpad for your next level of success."

"Your Friday attitude is the preview of your Monday performance. Choose wisely."

"Friday is your weekly reminder that you’ve overcome every challenge thrown your way."

"Let your Friday enthusiasm be the fuel for your Monday innovations."

"Your Friday productivity has the power to set the tone for your entire next week."

"Friday is your reminder that balance is key. Work hard, rest well, succeed brilliantly."

"Friday isn’t just the end of your work week; it’s the runway for your weekend takeoff."

"Your Friday attitude is the secret ingredient in your success recipe."

"Friday: Where your week’s challenges transform into next week’s opportunities."

"Don’t just survive Friday; thrive in it. It’s your weekly growth spurt."

"Friday: The day when your to-do list meets its match."

"Let your Friday enthusiasm be the spark that ignites your Monday innovations."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The trouble is, you think you have time."

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"Friday isn’t just the end of the week. It’s the beginning of possibilities."

"The best Fridays are those where you’ve given your all Monday through Thursday."

"Friday is a state of mind. Bring its energy to every day of your week."

"On Fridays, we don’t just clock out. We level up."

"The beauty of Friday lies not in its escape from work but in its celebration of effort."

"Friday is your weekly reminder that you’re capable of greatness."

"Make your Fridays so awesome they become the envy of other weekdays."

"Friday isn’t about ending your week. It’s about beginning your weekend adventure."

"The best Fridays are those where you’re excited for the weekend but proud of your week."

"Friday is your weekly reminder that life is about more than work."

"Friday morning is the beginning of the end of your work week. But it’s also the beginning of your weekend possibilities."

"The best Friday mornings are those where you’ve given your all Monday through Thursday."

"Friday morning is a state of mind. Bring its energy to every day of your week."

"On Friday mornings, don’t just focus on clocking out. Set your aim higher and level up."

"The beauty of Friday morning lies not in its escape from work but in its celebration of the week’s effort."

"Friday morning is your weekly reminder that you’re capable of greatness."

"Make your Friday mornings so awesome they become the envy of other weekdays."

"Friday morning isn’t about ending your week. It’s about beginning your weekend adventure."

"The best Friday mornings are those where you’re excited for the weekend but proud of your week."

"Friday morning is your weekly reminder that life is about more than work. Here’s to your weekend."

"Every day is a new beginning."

"May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

"Friday: Where faith meets follow-through."

"Let your Friday work ethic preach louder than any Sunday sermon."

"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."

"Friday: Your weekly reminder that God’s grace is sufficient for all your tasks."

"Let your Friday work ethic be a testament to your faith."

"Friday: Where earthly deadlines meet divine timing."

"On Fridays, we don’t just clock out; we count our blessings."

"Friday: Your weekly reminder that you’re created for a purpose greater than any deadline."

"Friday: Your weekly opportunity to turn work into worship."

"Let your Friday productivity be your offering of thanks."

"On Fridays, we harvest the fruits of our week’s labor, remembering who waters the seeds."

"It’s time to embrace the crazy beautiful mess that you are because it’s almost the weekend."

"Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm."

"Life is good, especially on a Friday."

"Make Fridays your goals for the week. Celebrate this day as you accomplish your tasks."

"Fridays are the hardest of the week with freedom but a day away."

"It’s the weekend. Do something that your future self will thank you for."

"Your Friday smile can brighten someone’s entire weekend."

"Friday is your reminder that balance is key. Work hard, rest well, dream big."

"Let your Friday enthusiasm be the fuel for your weekend adventures."

"Friday is your weekly reminder that you’re resilient, capable, and unstoppable."

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

"Your Friday attitude sets the tone for your entire weekend. Choose positivity."

"Friday isn’t just the end of your work week; it’s the launchpad for your weekend dreams."

"Your mindset on Friday sets the tone for your entire week. Choose inspiration, and watch your world transform."

"Friday. The golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"Let's sit on a rooftop at 2am and talk about life."

"Don’t think – do!"

"Serve yourself by serving others"

"These are the things to live for."

"Stay Humble Hustle Hard"

"Friday's child is loving and giving."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"Friday: The day when my ‘Out of Office’ reply mysteriously sets itself."

"Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to save me from my week."

"Friday is like a superpower – I can suddenly hear a bottle opening from a mile away, providing that extra courage for the following week."

"Friday is my second favorite F word. The first is ‘Funding for my weekends.”"

"I’m not saying I love Fridays more than other days, but if my keyboard only had two keys, they’d be ‘Ctrl’ and ‘F.”"

"Friday afternoon at the office is like trying to teach a cat to swim – technically possible, but highly unproductive."

"I told my boss I have a lot of ‘Friday Meetings.’ He doesn’t know it’s with my couch and Netflix."

"Friday: Because ‘Wine Not’ is a perfectly acceptable business strategy."

"My Friday motivation is directly proportional to the number of hours left until 5 PM."

"TGIF: Because ‘Thank God it’s Monday’ is just so wrong."