100+ Fun Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day and Spark Joy

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."

- Katharine Hepburn

"The bottom line is to have fun and enjoy life."

- Rekha

"Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else."

- Richard Branson

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."

- Joe Namath

"When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful."

- Jane Birkin

"I'm all about having a laugh, having fun, loving being around people who are like that, who give off that positive vibe."

- Tenille Dashwood

"My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it."

- Paul Walker

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Having fun is definitely how you're going to keep yourself loose, and be at your best."

- Mookie Betts

"Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too."

- Chris Brown

"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away."

- Heath Ledger

"You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way."

- Kalpana Chawla

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

- Michael Jordan

"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."

- Bum Phillips

"If you're not having fun it's not worth doing."

- Tommy Bolin

"Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun."

- Taylor Swift

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that."

- Coolio

"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'"

- Christopher Meloni

"I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it."

- David Johansen

"Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun."

- Nina Dobrev

"I think that success is having fun."

- Bruno Mars

"I'm having fun. I'm being myself. I'm doing what I love. That's all that matters."

- James Charles

"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."

- Thomas A. Edison

"We just like having fun with everything we do."

- Young Dolph

"As long as you are doing things with a smile on your face, and you are having fun, then you are being unfiltered."

- Bretman Rock

"Just keep taking chances and having fun."

- Garth Brooks

"Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun."

- Randy Pausch

"You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible."

- Frank Ocean

"At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day."

- Simone Biles

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do."

- Amy Poehler

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then, by all means, follow that path."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

"Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring."

- Steve Maraboli

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade, and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."

- Ron White

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Thomas Edison

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have."

- Roger Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

"It ain’t over til it’s over."

- Yogi Berra

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

- Winston Churchill

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family."

- Roman Reigns

"It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave."

- Tupac Shakur

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done."

- Jackie Robinson

"Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went."

- Jonathan Sacks

"I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded."

- Sean Kingston

"Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun."

- Brian Wilson

"My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning."

- Rick Riordan

"Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point."

- Pat Summitt

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well."

- Mark Twain

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"

- Sydney J. Harris

"My favorite thing to do on this planet is to play games. And if you don’t enjoy games, then you’re really missing the point of what this life is."

- RuPaul

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."

- Jack Handey

"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are."

- Will Ferrell

"There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate."

- Barack Obama

"I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

- Rita Rudner

"Who won in life? Me. Because I got to marry you."

- Chip Gaines

"I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad, and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat."

- Mindy Kaling

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

- Oscar Wilde

"I learned a long time ago that worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere."

- Van Wilder, National Lampoon’s van Wilder

"My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"If you can’t be kind, at least be vague."

- Judith Martin

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open."

- Frank Zappa

"Don’t be so humble — you are not that great."

- Golda Meir

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."

- Albert Einstein

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"I am an early bird and a night owl... so I am wise and I have worms."

- Michael Scott

"If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough."

- Phyllis Diller

"Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"I’m in shape. Round is a shape."

- George Carlin

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already."

- Dave Barry

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

- Phyllis Diller

"Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood."

- Bill Murray

"When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade and then try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."

- Ron White

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

"A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory."

- Mark Twain

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."

- George Carlin

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself."

- Ethel Barrymore

"People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass."

- Sophia Petrillo

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."

- James Branch Cabell

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."

- Will Rogers

"Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia."

- Charles Schulz

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work."

- Robert Orben

"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Robert Frost

"Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping."

- Bo Derek

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Buddha

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- E.E. Cummings

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Confucius

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

- Coco Chanel

"Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When I was growing up, I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

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

- Oscar Wilde

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

- Jim Carrey

"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Tom Lehrer

"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."

- Louis Agassiz

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

"True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."

- Edna Buchanan

"It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office."

- Shirley MacLaine

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’"

- Steven Wright

"Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas."

- Paula Poundstone

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

- Drew Carey

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working."

- Justin Timberlake

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"Live each day like it’s your second to the last. That way you can fall asleep at night."

- Jason Love

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."

- Oscar Wilde

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."

- Socrates

"I’m not crazy — I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years."

- Ouiser Boudreaux

"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."

- Groucho Marx

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous."

- Robert Benchley

"Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese."

- Billie Burke

"My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.’"

- Rose Nylund

"A peacock that rests on his tail feathers is just another turkey."

- Dolly Parton

"If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck."

- Elvis Presley

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat."

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

- Lucille Ball

"Bad decisions make good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

"If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer."

- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."

- Franklin P. Jones

"I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with ’em later."

- Mitch Hedberg

"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

- Bryan White

"Even a stopped clock is right twice every day."

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two."

- Sir Norman Wisdom

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt."

- Charles M. Schulz

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it."

- Mae West

"Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener."

- Pauline Thomason

"I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road."

- Stephen Hawking

"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well."

- Mark Twain

"Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"People can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys."

- Mike Bechtle

"I’m not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?"

- Chandler Bing

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

- Herman Melville

"Work is much more fun than fun."

- Noel Coward

"Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read."

- Leo Burnett

"Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone."

- Satoru Iwata

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is."

- Donald Trump

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

- Bob Hope

"I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans."

- James Maslow

"I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way."

- Tyler, The Creator

"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."

- Sally Ride

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

- Katharine Hepburn

"I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun."

- SZA

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

- Napoleon Hill

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."

- Fran Lebowitz

"Well, nobody’s perfect."

- Some Like It Hot

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

- Don Herold

"You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

- The Virgin Suicides

"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."

- Lucille Ball

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Keep calm and carry a wand."

- A.W. Jantha

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

- Dodgeball

"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter."

- John Gotti

"Instant gratification takes too long."

- Carrie Fisher

"A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain."

- Graham Norton

"Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery."

- Erma Bombeck

"Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them."

- Dick van Dyke

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

- Steve Martin

"Just ’cause some cute girl likes the same bizarro crap you do, that doesn’t make her your soulmate."

- 500 Days of Summer

"My wife didn't take my name, which isn't weird, but what's weird is when people think it's weird, like we're on a first-name basis anyway."

- Mark Agee

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"My husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should have taken a second look."

- Halley Reed

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last."

- Willy Wonka

"Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese."

- Luis Buñuel

"I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet."

- Carrie Bradshaw

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board."

- Betty White

"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs."

- Wanda

"Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun."

- Sebastian Thrun

"I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them."

- Ricky Gervais

"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."

- Christopher Parker

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."

- Andrew Jackson

"Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad."

- Daniel Goleman

"Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever."

- Raini Rodriguez

"It's kind of fun to be sexy."

- Tea Leoni

"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."

- Kin Hubbard

"When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you."

- Dane Cook

"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it."

- Ryan Gosling

"Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!"

- Charlie Brown

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"Here’s the deal, when life gives you lemons, just say f-ck the lemons and bail."

"If at first, you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you."