Laugh and Be Inspired: A Collection of Funny Quotes to Brighten Your Day

Discover a delightful collection of funny and inspiring quotes that will uplift your spirits and tickle your funny bone. From witty observations about life to humorous takes on work and friendship, this blog post is a treasure trove of laughter and motivation. Whether you're looking for a quick pick-me-up or a dose of inspiration, these quotes will remind you to find joy in the everyday and not take life too seriously. Join us as we explore the lighter side of wisdom with quotes from famous personalities that will leave you chuckling and inspired. Perfect for sharing with friends or keeping for a personal boost, these quotes are sure to resonate with anyone who appreciates humor and inspiration in equal measure.

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Happiness

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

- Robin Williams

Creativity

"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

Joy

"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

Happiness

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Motivation

"I’m in shape. Round is a shape."

- George Carlin

Fitness

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

Success

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

- Reba McEntire

Motivation

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

- Winnie the Pooh

Positivity

"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

Happiness

"Some people see things that are and ask, ‘Why?’ Some people dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’ Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that."

- George Carlin

Motivation

"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

Love

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

- Bill Murray

Motivation

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

- Ethel Barrymore

Personal Growth

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

Love

"When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.'"

- Groucho Marx

Relationships

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

- Douglas Adams

Well-being

"I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to keep out of those places."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Well-being

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

Well-being

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller

Change

"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."

- George Carlin

Well-being

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

- Vince Lombardi

Well-being

"If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal."

- Oprah Winfrey

Relationships

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

- Linda Grayson

Relationships

"Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise, we’re going down the tube."

- Joan Rivers

Happiness

"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

Ambition

"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

Well-being

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

- Charles Lamb

Well-being

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

- Mae West

Contentment

"No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early."

- Groucho Marx

Motivation

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

- Edna Buchanan

Relationships

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper."

- Quentin Crisp

Well-being

"Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion."

- Tina Fey

Self-confidence

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”"

- C.S. Lewis

Relationships

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

- Katharine Hepburn

Adversity

"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Mark Twain

Contentment

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relationships

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

- Zig Ziglar

New Beginnings

"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

Happiness

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

- Robert Frost

Hard Work

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

- Barack Obama

Love

"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

- Katharine Whitehorn

Goals

"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in."

- Richard Jeni

Relationships

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up."

- Ann Bradford

Self-care

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

- Steve Maraboli

Motivation

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

Aspirations

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

- Mark Twain

Compassion

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

- Douglas Adams

Time Management

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

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

- Bryan White

Personal Growth

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

- Forrest Gump

Wisdom

"If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’"

- Dave Barry

Well-being

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day."

- Robert Frost

Hard Work

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."

- Robert Benchley

Well-being

"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."

- W.C. Fields

Well-being

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

Failure

"It ain’t over til it’s over."

- Yogi Berra

Perseverance

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"

- Edward Bergen

Hard Work

"If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock."

- Claude MacDonald

Hard Work

"Be like a postage stamp; stick to one thing until you get there."

- Josh Billings

Determination

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!"

- Marvin Phillips

Motivation

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

- Don Herold

Time Management

"Why, sometimes I’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast."

- Alice in Wonderland

Imagination

"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

Awareness

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

- Lucille Ball

Contentment

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

- Sydney J. Harris

Awareness

"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

Awareness

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

Awareness

"Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with."

- Robert Brault

Relationships

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad."

- Arnold H. Glasgow

Relationships

"A true friend is someone that thinks you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer

Relationships

"Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

"When you’re in love, it’s the most glorious two-and-a-half days of your life."

- Richard Lewis

Love

"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

- Lily Tomlin

Love

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

- Stephen Covey

Motivation

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

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

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

- Joe Girard

Success

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

Success

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

- Dolly Parton

Optimism

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

- Phyllis Diller

Happiness

"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

Nature

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

- Charles Schulz

Optimism

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

- Ouiser Boudreaux

Well-being

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

- Oscar Wilde

Well-being

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

- Bo Derek

Happiness

"I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around."

- Homer Simpson

Motivation

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

Personal Growth

"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

Vision

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

Optimism

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resilience

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

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

"I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back."

- Jimmy Kimmel

Well-being

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’"

- Don Marquis

Well-being

"An office is a place to live life to the fullest, to the max. An office is a place where dreams come true."

- Michael Scott

Well-being

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

- Lily Tomlin

Well-being

"No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early."

- Groucho Marx

Awareness

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

- Reba McEntire

Success

"Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine."

- Lord Byron

Happiness

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."

- Kyle Chandler

Ambition

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

- William James

Joy

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Empowerment

"Haters are just confused admirers because they can’t figure out the reason why everyone loves you."

- Jeffree Star

Self-esteem

"Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Courage

"Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost."

- Ellen DeGeneres

Independence

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

Motivation

"‘Best friend’ isn’t a person—it’s a tier."

- Mindy Kaling

Relationships

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

- Phyllis Diller

Family

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."

- Philip K. Dick

Well-being

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Awareness

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

- Sylvia Plath

Relationships

"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

Awareness

"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

Personal Growth

"By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me."

- Miranda Priestly

Well-being

"You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it."

- Henry Youngman

Love

"Oh, yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it."

- Rafiki

Growth

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

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

"If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it."

- George Burns

Well-being

"When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you."

- Walter Payton

Well-being

"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."

- Mae West

Love

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Efficiency

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

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Well-being

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?"

- J. Paul Getty

Adaptation

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

- Douglas Adams

Well-being

"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

Well-being

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

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

- Michael Scott

Balance

"It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

- William Faulkner

Well-being

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

- Groucho Marx

Education

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

- Mark Twain

Productivity

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

Success

"Be happy, it drives people crazy."

- Paulo Coelho

Happiness

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Learning from Mistakes

"Aspire to inspire before we expire."

- Eugene Bell Jr.

Inspiration

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

- Steve Jobs

Creativity

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Leadership

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

- Dalai Lama

Empowerment

"Working hard is important. But there is something that matters more, believing yourself."

- Harry Potter

Belief in Self

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

- Mark Twain

Awareness

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

- Henry Kissinger

Motivation

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Well-being

"There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?"

- Kin Hubbard

Success

"You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job."

- Laurence J. Peter

Relationships

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, ‘I’m not going to make it’, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."

- Charles Bukowski

Happiness

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

- Vaclav Havel

Self-awareness

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

- Will Rogers

Goals

"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

Compassion

"What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."

- Phyllis Diller

Happiness

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

- Rita Mae Brown

Well-being

"When life brings big winds of change that almost blow you over, close your eyes, hang on tight, and believe."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Courage

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

- Golda Meir

Self-esteem

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

- George Carlin

Self-awareness

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

- TS Eliot

Success

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

- Lucille Ball

Relationships

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at that moment."

- Robert Benchley

Awareness

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

Goals

"Don’t let schooling interfere with your education."

- Mark Twain

Education

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

- Oscar Wilde

Wisdom

"It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view."

- Dalai Lama

Awareness

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

- Joe Girard

Success

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

- Yoda

Determination

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

- Mike Bechtle

Well-being

"Friendship is like money—easier made than kept."

- Samuel Butler

Relationships

"You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal."

- Elizabeth Taylor

Relationships

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

Choice

"The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Vision

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

- George Burns

Family

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

- Michael Lopp

Resilience

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

- Elbert Hubbard

Optimism

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

- Tom Lehrer

Reflection

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

- Will Rogers

Determination

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

- Frank Zappa

Awareness

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

- Marilyn Monroe

Ambition

"You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?"

- Steven Wright

Contentment

"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration."

- Robert Bresson

Inspiration

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open."

- Frank Zappa

Awareness

"Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could."

- Charles J. Sykes

Connection to Earth

"Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes."

- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Success

"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."

- Steven Wright

Creativity

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

- Harold Geneen

Education

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious."

- Og Mandino

Positivity

"Love is a two-way street constantly under construction."

- Carroll Bryant

Love

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

- Erich Segal

Love

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

- Charles M. Schulz

Love

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

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

- Jules Renard

Love

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

- Michael Scott

Balance

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

- Amy Poehler

Boldness

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?"

- Captain Jack Sparrow

Awareness

"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."

- Blaise Pascal

Love

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

- Judith Martin

Compassion

"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

Relationships

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

- Steven Wright

Insight

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

- Charlie Brown

Well-being

"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

Well-being

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

- James Branch Cabell

Philosophy

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

- Jason Love

Contentment

"Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it."

- Merida

Courage

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."

- Will Rogers

Adversity

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

- Billie Burke

Contentment

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

- Mae West

Balance

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

- Rose Nylund

Aspirations

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

- Dolly Parton

Courage

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

- Elvis Presley

Self-awareness

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

- Louis Agassiz

Time Management

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

- Franklin P. Jones

Awareness

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

- John Gotti

Well-being

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Joy

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

- Paula Poundstone

Well-being

"It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

- Muhammad Ali

Well-being

"It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not."

- Mignon McLaughlin

Relationships

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost

Awareness

"The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse."

- Denise Miller

Courage

"Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers."

- Homer Simpson

Ambition

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

- Pablo Picasso

Adaptation

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

- Joseph Stilwell

Insight

"Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it."

- Andrew Young

Morality

"There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."

- David Letterman

Adaptation

"There’s an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

- Peter Drucker

Adaptation

"Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties."

- Doug Larson

Ambition

"Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it half-assed. That’s the American way."

- Homer Simpson

Courage

"If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some."

- Benjamin Franklin

Well-being

"Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

- George Burns

Contentment

"If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style."

- Quentin Crisp

Failure

"Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment."

- Dilbert

Goals

"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

- Lewis Grizzard

Adaptation

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."

- Aristotle

Awareness

"Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes."

- Henry Thoreau

Awareness

"Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train."

- The Office

Adversity

"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Self-esteem

"You never become a howling success by just howling."

- Bob Harrington

Success

"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."

- Joseph Heller

Failure

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."

- Savielly Tartakower

Success

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

- Earl Wilson

Success

"Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues."

- David Ogilvy

Leadership

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell

Awareness

"I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

Efficiency

"If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative."

- Woody Allen

Courage

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

Insight

"The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour."

- Wernher von Braun

Insight

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

- William Somerset Maugham

Relationships

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Motivation

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

- Dodgeball

Motivation

"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?

Happiness

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

Perseverance

"When in doubt, look intelligent."

- Garrison Keillor

Well-being

"Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

Well-being

"Well, nobody’s perfect."

- Some Like It Hot

Contentment

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished— If you’re alive it isn’t."

- Richard Bach

Awareness

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."

- Andy Rooney

Compassion

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."

- Bill Watterson

Philosophy

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."

- Terry Pratchett

Creativity

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

- Terry Pratchett

Awareness

"See the world like a big wardrobe. Everybody has his own costume. There is only one that fits you perfectly."

- George Harris

Self-awareness

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."

- Isaac Asimov

Morality

"I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened."

- Will Rogers

Hope

"After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are."

- Shrek

Self-esteem

"There comes a day when you’re gonna look around and realize happiness is where you are."

- Chief Tui

Happiness

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

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Compassion

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby—awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."

- Lemony Snicket

Love

"Bad decisions make good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

Reflection

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

- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Joy

"Kill them with success and bury them with a smile."

- Usain Bolt

Success

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

- Mark Twain

Well-being

"Please. Have mercy. I’ve been wearing the same underwear since Tuesday."

- Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Joy

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind."

Belief in Self

"You want to get out of the hole? First you’re going to have to put down the shovel."

Motivation

"Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop."

Growth

"Be that kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor every morning, the devil says, 'Oh crap she’s up'."

Empowerment

"Always remember that you are unique — just like everybody else."

Self-esteem

"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure."

Self-awareness

"Sometimes the best part of my job is that the chair swivels."

Contentment

"Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job."

Self-esteem

"If at first you don’t succeed, try management."

Failure

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

Insight

"When life puts you in a tough situation, don’t say 'Why me?', say 'Try me'."

Courage

"Failure is not an option-it comes bundled with the software."

Failure

"We make mistakes because life doesn’t come with instructions."

Learning from Mistakes

"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."

Success

"Awesome things will happen today if you choose not to be a miserable cow."

Positivity