50 Inspirational Friday Quotes to Ignite Your Weekend Spirit

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Lauren Oliver

"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

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

- Buddha

"Gratitude shifts everything."

- Ryan Zofay

"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

"I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun."

- Hanna Rhoades

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

- Ryan Zofay

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

- Marie Forleo

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

- Confucius

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Fred Devito

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

- Confucius

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Kate Summers

"People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness."

- Abhysheq Shukla

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Ryan Zofay

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

- George Addair

"Everybody’s working for the weekend!"

- Loverboy, “Working for the Weekend”

"When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Gotta get down on Friday. Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend."

- Rebecca Black

"Friday afternoon feels like Heaven."

- El Fuego

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

- The Cure, “Friday I’m in Love”

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Theophrastus

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- William Penn

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

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

- Lao Tzu

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Cicero

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- John Vance Cheney

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

- John 1:5

"Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost."

- Avenged Sevenfold

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- George Washington

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

- Ferris Bueller, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”

"I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Celebrate good times, c'mon!"

- Kool & The Gang, “Celebration”

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"If you’re not invited to the party, throw your own."

- Diahann Carroll

"Music always sounds better on Friday."

- Lou Brutus

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

"Labor conquers all things."

- Virgil

"At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I got a feeling. That tonight’s gonna be a good night."

- Black Eyed Peas, “I Gotta Feeling”

"I’ve got nothing to do today but smile."

- Paul Simon

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

- Peter Drucker

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Buddha

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

- Richard Whately

"Let Friday show you where the smiles are in life."

- Anthony T. Hincks

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

- Randy Pausch

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Happy Friday! Here’s to all of us who made it through another week of faking adulthood."

- Nanea Hoffman

"Let each day be your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Aristotle

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

- William James

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Molière

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- George Sand

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"Sunshine, she’s here, you can take a break. I’m a hot air balloon that could go to space."

- Pharrell Williams, “Happy”

"I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend."

- Debasish Mridha

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Florence Welch

"When in doubt, go out."

- Ali Wong, “Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

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

- Marcel Proust

"I’m gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That’s my motto."

- H.G. Bissinger, “Friday Night Lights”

"We danced on tabletops, and we took too many shots, think we kissed, but I forgot, last Friday night."

- Katy Perry, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)”

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne."

- Paul Claudel

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

- Rumi

"Finish every day and be done with it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Proverbs 22:29

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

- E. E. Cummings

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A cheerful heart is good medicine."

- Proverbs 17:22

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- William Shakespeare

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

"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

"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

"The journey is the reward."

- Chinese proverb

"Act without expectation."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Steve Schulte

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A light heart lives long."

- William Shakespeare

"When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you."

- Lolly Daskal

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

- Aristotle

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

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Omar Khayyam

"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

"Happiness is the highest good."

- Aristotle

"The earth has music for those who listen."

- William Shakespeare

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

- John Keats

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

- Gerard De Nerval

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

- John Keats

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

- Leigh Hunt

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- William Shakespeare

"Punctuality is the soul of business."

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It’s always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves…they tend to spill over."

- Parag Tipnis

"Everywhere I see bliss."

- Mary Shelley

"It’s 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?"

- Amy Neftzger

"Friday (Thank God it’s) Friday!"

- Love & Kisses, “Thank God It’s Friday”

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

"Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better."

- Sanhita Baruah

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

- Leslie Nielsen

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

- Ben Jonson

"The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude."

- James Joyce, “Dubliners”

"The night is the mother of thoughts."

- John Florio

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

- Proverb

"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

"Common sense is not so common."

- Voltaire

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

- William Shakespeare

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."

- Frank Sinatra

"Fridays are like grandparents — everyone takes them lightly."

- Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

"Anticipation, anticipation, is making me late, is keepin’ me waiting."

- Carly Simon, “Anticipation”

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!"

- Neil Leckman

"Friday is my second favorite F word. Food is my first!"

- Anonymous

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Every day is a new beginning."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Life is good, especially on a Friday."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

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

"No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist."

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

"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."

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

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

"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.”"

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

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

"Friday: Where faith meets follow-through."

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

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

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

"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."

"Why is Monday so far from Friday but Friday so close to Monday?"

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

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

"It's Friday... any plan of being a productive member of society is officially thrown out the window."

"Friday's child is loving and giving."