Hilarious and Uplifting: The Ultimate Collection of Short Funny Inspirational Quotes

## Laugh and Get Inspired with These Short Funny Quotes Life can be tough, but a good laugh and a dose of inspiration can make all the difference. This blog post brings you a curated collection of short, funny, and inspirational quotes that will brighten your day and motivate you to keep going. From witty observations about life’s challenges to humorous takes on love, friendship, and success, these quotes blend humor with wisdom. Whether you need a quick pick-me-up or a clever way to see the brighter side of things, this collection has something for everyone. Dive into the world of laughter and motivation with quotes from famous comedians, authors, and thinkers who know how to make you smile while inspiring you. Perfect for sharing with friends or keeping as your personal mantra, these short funny inspirational quotes prove that humor and hope go hand in hand.

Wisdom from the Masters

"I’m not great at the advice — can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?"

- Chandler Bing

Motivation

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

- Robin Williams

Creativity

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

- Oscar Wilde

Well-being

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

- Elvis Presley

Awareness

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

- Will Rogers

Goals

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

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

- Jason Love

Contentment

"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

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

- Franklin P. Jones

Awareness

"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

Creativity

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

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

- Ferris Bueller

Change

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief

"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."

- Robert Bloch

Connection to Earth

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Ambition

"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

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes."

- Jack Handy

Compassion

"I’d like to have a kid, but I’m not sure I’m ready to spend 10 years of my life constantly asking someone where his shoes are."

- Damien Fahey

Family

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

- Will Ferrell

Relationships

"Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream."

- Conan O’Brien

Family

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

- Vince Lombardi

Well-being

"I’m not superstitious … but I am a little stitious."

- Michael Scott

Self-awareness

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

- George Carlin

Self-awareness

"I’m not offended by blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb … and I also know that I’m not blonde."

- Dolly Parton

Self-confidence

"The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him."

- Oscar Wilde

Relationships

"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made."

- Joan Rivers

Success

"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

Ambition

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

- Bo Derek

Happiness

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

- Golda Meir

Belief in Self

"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"

- Robin Williams

Adaptation

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

- Mark Twain

Awareness

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Empowerment

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Learning from Mistakes

"When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you."

- Nora Ephron

Family

"Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a cha-cha."

- Robert Brault

Optimism

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

- George Burns

Family

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

- P. J. O’Rourke

Family

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

- Rita Rudner

Relationships

"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out."

- Erma Bombeck

Family

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

- Phyllis Diller

Family

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

- Steven Wright

Contentment

"Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

Change

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

- Dalai Lama

Empowerment

"Bad decisions make good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

Reflection

"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

"When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye."

- Cathy Guisewite

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

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

Awareness

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

- Winnie the Pooh

Positivity

"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

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

- Katharine Hepburn

Adversity

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

- Pauline Thomason

Love

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

- Steve Maraboli

Motivation

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

- Rodney Dangerfield

Family

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

- Charles M. Schulz

Love

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

- Isaac Asimov

Knowledge

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

Self-awareness

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

- Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

Perseverance

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

- Joe Girard

Success

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

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

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

- Lily Tomlin

Aspirations

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

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"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

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

- Halley Reed

Relationships

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

- Reba McEntire

Motivation

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

- Willy Wonka

Joy

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

- Edna Buchanan

Relationships

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

- Will Ferrell

Love

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

- Tina Fey

Self-confidence

"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

Ambition

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Motivation

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

- Carrie Bradshaw

Contentment

"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

Creativity

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it."

- Shirley MacLaine

Relationships

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

- Forrest Gump

Wisdom

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

- Judith Martin

Compassion

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

- Jerry Seinfeld

Family

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

- Mae West

Balance

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

- Lily Tomlin

Well-being

"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

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

Success

"Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."

- P.J. O’Rourke

Family

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Happiness

"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."

- George Carlin

Family

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

- Joan Rivers

Happiness

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

- George Bernard Shaw

Family

"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

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

- Marvin Phillips

Motivation

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

- Robert Frost

Hard Work

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

- George Carlin

Awareness

"I’d love to stand here and talk with you ... but I’m not going to."

- Phil Connors

Boldness

"I’m sure wherever my Dad is, he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending."

- Jack Whitehall

Family

"You can kid the world, but not your sister."

- Charlotte Gray

Family

"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

"If God wanted us to bend over he would put diamonds on the floor."

- Joan Rivers

Positivity

"Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?"

- Jay Leno

Insight

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

- Douglas Adams

Time Management

"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

"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

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

- Bill Murray

Motivation

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

- Katharine Whitehorn

Goals

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

- Josh Billings

Determination

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

- Alice in Wonderland

Imagination

"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

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

- Mark Twain

Awareness

"We need to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn’t matter, but work is third."

- Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation

Balance

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I read that one on a can of lemonade. I like to think it applies to life."

- Andy Dwyer, Parks and Recreation

Motivation

"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

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

- Robert Brault

Relationships

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

- Dalai Lama

Empowerment

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

- Paula Poundstone

Well-being

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."

- Ogden Nash

Positivity

"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

Relationships

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

- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Joy

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relationships

"Instant gratification takes too long."

- Carrie Fisher

Contentment

"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

Joy

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

- Lucille Ball

Aspirations

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

Reflection

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

- Edward Bergen

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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"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

"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

"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."

- Mae West

Love

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

- Chandler Bing

Happiness

"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

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

- Linda Grayson

Relationships

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

- Erma Bombeck

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

"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

"Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

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

- Richard Jeni

Relationships

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

- Lily Tomlin

Love

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

- Blaise Pascal

Love

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

- Dodgeball

Motivation

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

- Erich Segal

Love

"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

Love

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

- 500 Days of Summer

Relationships

"Well, nobody’s perfect."

- Some Like It Hot

Contentment

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

- Steve Martin

Nature

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

- Mark Twain

Well-being

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

- Don Herold

Time Management

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Love

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Awareness

"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems."

- Homer Simpson

Happiness

"Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I’ll find it along the way."

- Michael Scott

Creativity

"I would do anything for my friends, which I think is how everyone in the world feels. Which is why I finally understand war."

- Jeff Winger, Community

Relationships

"If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right."

- Jerry Seinfeld

Adaptation

"I’m a bit of a sucker for second chances. They’re my first favorite kind of chance."

- Jessica Day, New Girl

Personal Growth

"What am I scared of? I’m scared of the same thing that you are: everything."

- George Costanza

Facing Fears

"Here’s some advice I wish I woulda got when I was your age: Live every week like it’s Shark Week."

- Tracy Jordan

Aspirations

"I love a good nap. Sometimes it’s the only thing getting me out of bed in the morning."

- George Costanza, Seinfeld

Happiness

"Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That’s one of my mottos."

- Stanley Hudson

Happiness

"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’s supposed to be doing at that moment."

- Robert Benchley

Awareness

"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

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

- Claude MacDonald

Hard Work

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

- Groucho Marx

Motivation

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

- Sydney J. Harris

Awareness

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

- Mindy Kaling

Relationships

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

- Henry Kissinger

Motivation

"I don’t make the rules, ma’am. I just think them up and write them down."

- Eric Cartman

Awareness

"Why can’t parents just stay parents? You know? Why do they have to become people?"

- Rachel Green

Awareness

"Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV."

- Morty

Awareness

"Your soul is like your appendix—I don’t even use it!"

- Michael Kelso

Happiness

"Life is just a big bowl of fancy assorted cashews!"

- Patrick Star, SpongeBob SquarePants

Happiness

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

- Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Joy

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

Failure

"A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction."

- Justin Sewell

Adversity

"It could be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."

- Ashleigh Brilliant

Reflection

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

- Billie Burke

Contentment

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

- Michael Scott

Balance

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

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

- Phyllis Diller

Happiness

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

- Charles Schulz

Optimism

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

- William Somerset Maugham

Relationships

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

- Sylvia Plath

Relationships

"No thank you, I prefer to get high on life."

- Millie Kentner

Happiness

"Fate is just what you call it when you don’t know the name of the person screwing you over."

- Lois, Malcolm in the Middle

Awareness

"All life ends in death, which we, as a species, are cursed with knowing. Resulting in … something. Again, this is really not my field."

- Ian Duncan

Awareness

"I can resist all temptations except temptation."

- Anonymous

Courage

"If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you."

- Billy Wilder

Courage

"Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy."

- Cynthia Nelms

Happiness

"The best things in this world are free and well worth every penny."

- Murphy’s Laws

Contentment

"I’m not saying I hate you, what I’m saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life."

- Anonymous

Adversity

"Be the reason someone smiles today…or the reason they drink. Anything works."

- Anonymous

Happiness

"My naturally-born sarcasm can sometimes be a little too much at times, and that’s something I’m not ashamed to admit."

- Tom Bergeron

Self-awareness

"Why is it called rush hour when there’s no movement?"

- Robin Williams

Awareness

"Love is the triumph over intelligence over imagination."

- Murphy’s Laws

Love

"Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet."

- Robin Williams

Relationships

"No matter how terrible it gets, I’m always rich in the dollar store."

- Anonymous

Contentment

"Success will bring you the greatest revenge. I believe women should either respond with sarcasm, or success."

- Kangana Ranaut

Success

"Well, at least your mom thinks you’re pretty."

- Anonymous

Self-esteem

"It’s always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black."

- Paul Newman

Adversity

"Well-behaved females rarely make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Ambition

"I have always wanted to be somebody. But now I realize that I should be more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Aspirations

"The only by going a little beyond the boundaries of the possible, can you discover the limits that are possible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Growth

"Light travels quicker than sound. This is why people seem brighter than they actually are."

- Steven Wright

Awareness

"When life is giving you lemons, squirt somebody in the eye."

- Cathy Guisewite

Happiness

"My attitude during exams. They give me questions I don’t know. I give them answers they don’t know."

- Anonymous

Education

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

- Oscar Wilde

Wisdom

"He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t."

- Victor Borge

Relationships

"Yes, I walked out mid-conversation. You were bored to death, and my survival instincts kicked into high gear."

- Anonymous

Courage

"We suffer from too much sarcasm."

- Marianne Moore

Awareness

"What is the difference between a tornado in the South and a divorce? Absolutely nothing! Someone’s losing a trailer, number one."

- Robin Williams

Relationships

"The less you can read, the more you will be able to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It makes you ready for the real world of work. The more you know, the more someone owes it to you."

- Will Rogers

Education

"Never delay what you can do tomorrow!"

- Mark Twain

Time Management

"You can’t have everything. It’s impossible to have everything."

- Steven Wright

Contentment

"Before he created the electric light, Edison had failed 10,000 times. Don’t let failure discourage you."

- Napoleon Hill

Failure

"I’m sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid. I thought you knew everything."

- Anonymous

Courage

"Common sense and sense of humor are two different things, but they move at different speeds. A sense of humor is simply common sense. It’s dancing."

- William James

Wisdom

"Work until your bank account looks like your phone number."

- Anonymous

Success

"Before judging a man, walk one mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!"

- Billy Connolly

Awareness

"An optimist believes this is the best possible universe. The opposite of optimists is pessimists who fear this to be true."

- Robert Oppenheimer

Optimism

"Sometimes I require what only you can give: your absence."

- Ashleigh Brilliant

Self-awareness

"Sarchotic: People don’t know if you’re serious or joking when you’re so sarcastic."

- Anonymous

Courage

"I love French sarcasm and irony. They are a great source of bad moods."

- Marjane Satrapi

Awareness

"Unless you are Google, stop pretending that you know everything."

- Anonymous

Self-awareness

"One might suspect that there are many things happening in the Universe, which he or her does not fully comprehend."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Wisdom

"Without Geometry, Life is Pointless."

- Anonymous

Wisdom

"Luck can be what you have left over after you give 100 per cent."

- Langston Coleman

Success

"Does love come from the first sight?"

- Anonymous

Love

"I hailed from a tough neighborhood. I was once attacked by a man with a knife. I knew he wasn’t a professional, the knife had butter on it."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Courage

"People may say that it is impossible to do something, but I do it every day."

- Winnie The Pooh

Aspirations

"Bad decisions are good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

Learning from Mistakes

"A half-truth is a lie."

- Yiddish Proverb

Wisdom

"Silence is gold. Duct tape can be described as silver."

- Anonymous

Wisdom

"I’ve reached an age where my brain can go from a ‘You Probably shouldn’t say that’ to ‘What the heck, let’s just see what happens.’"

- Anonymous

Self-awareness

"This music will not do. It lacks sarcasm."

- Samuel Goldwyn

Creativity

"When people ask me a stupid question, it’s my legal obligation to make a sarcastic comment."

- Anonymous

Courage

"Sarcasm is the last refuge for the imaginatively broke."

- Cassandra Clare

Creativity

"Change is not a four-letter word… but often your reaction to it is!"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

Change

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

Self-esteem

"Mirrors can’t talk, lucky for you they can’t laugh either."

- Anonymous

Self-esteem

"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."

- Billy Sunday

Religion

"The elevator to success is not an option. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

Success

"Sarcasm helps you overcome the harsh reality of life, makes people smile, and eases the pain of scars."

- Mahmoud Darwish

Courage

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

- Elvis Presley

Self-awareness

"What are the appropriate proportions of maxims? The minimum amount of sound and the maximum amount of sense."

- Mark Twain

Wisdom

"Every man dies. Not every man lives."

- William Wallace

Inspiration

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

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

Optimism

"A lie can be halfway around the globe before the truth can have a chance to get its pants up."

- Winston Churchill

Wisdom

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

- Phyllis Diller

Family

"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

Connection to Earth

"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

Relationships

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

- Chip Gaines

Love

"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

Relationships

"Keep calm and carry a wand."

- A.W. Jantha

Inspiration

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

- The Virgin Suicides

Adversity

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

- Luis Buñuel

Aspirations

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

- Mae West

Contentment

"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

Philosophy

"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

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

Relationships

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

- Samuel Butler

Relationships

"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

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

- Richard Lewis

Love

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

- Henry Youngman

Love

"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

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

- Jules Renard

Love

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

- Carroll Bryant

Love

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

- Tom Lehrer

Reflection

"I’ll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that’s probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess."

- Cassandra Duffy

Aspirations

"Romance is elegantly defined as the product of fiction and love."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Relationships

"Friendship can be like peeing on oneself: Everyone can see it but only you feel the warmth it brings."

- Robert Bloch

Relationships

"A man can live happily with any woman if he doesn’t love them."

- Oscar Wilde

Relationships

"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don’t like?"

- Jean Cocteau

Success

"There’s no better vacation than my boss being on vacation."

- Anonymous

Happiness

"Experience is the name many people give their mistakes."

- Anonymous

Learning from Mistakes

"I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong."

- Russell Lynes

Courage

"I don’t eat meat because I love animals. I eat vegetables because I hate plants."

- Whitney Brown

Compassion

"Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

Adversity

"True bonding happens when your friends and you are all mad about the same thing."

- Anonymous

Relationships

"Education is what one does after he has forgotten everything he learned at school."

- Albert Einstein

Education

"It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has the same taste."

- Anonymous

Self-esteem

"Flawsome: Adj. Individual who is open to their “flaws” and recognizes that they are amazing."

- Anonymous

Self-improvement

"I don’t enjoy irony or sarcasm. However, I like when someone tells you a joke but then it turns out to be serious."

- Jens Lekman

Creativity

"Marriage is a romantic relationship in which the heroine dies within the first chapter."

- Cecilia Egan

Relationships

"Some cause happiness everywhere they go, others wherever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

Happiness

"Success is not something you can hide. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?"

- Kin Hubbard

Success

"The problem with her is that she lacks both the power and the speech to communicate."

- George Bernard Shaw

Awareness

"A diamond is simply a lump of coal that performed well under pressure."

- Anonymous

Achievement

"Calamities come in two types: misfortunes to us and good fortune for others."

- Ambrose Bierce

Adversity

"There are many parking spots that offer a tempting way to succeed on the road to success."

- Will Rogers

Success

"Women who want to be equal with men are not ambitious."

- Marilyn Monroe

Ambition

"Always remember that your uniqueness is what you have. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

Self-awareness

"I do not know what weapons World War III is going to be fought with, but World War IV can be fought with sticks or stones."

- Albert Einstein

Wisdom

"Life is too short. Smile while you have teeth."

- Anonymous

Happiness

"I’m a bit sassy with some sarcasm, but I’m also stoic at times – and brash."

- Mike Daniels

Self-awareness

"I’m not good at giving advice… Can you make a sarcastic comment?"

- Chandler Bing, ‘Friends’

Creativity

"If I had a dollar for every clever thing you said. I’ll be poor."

- Anonymous

Courage

"Always give 100%, except when you’re giving blood."

- Anonymous

Hard Work

"Listen, smile, accept, and then do what you thought you would do anyway."

- Robert Downey Jr.

Awareness

"History teaches us that men, nations, and the world behave wisely when they exhaust all other options."

- Abba Eban

Wisdom

"A man in a relationship is not complete until he gets married. Then he’s finished."

- Zsa Zsa Botor

Relationships

"Most people miss the opportunity because they dress in overalls and pretend to work."

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"Plot Twist is the best way to move forward when something goes wrong in life."

- Molly Weis

Change

"Politics: ‘Poli’ a Latin word meaning ‘many’; and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures.'"

- Robin Williams

Awareness

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

- Murphy’s Laws

Adversity

"Spend your entire life doing weird things with weird people."

- Anonymous

Relationships

"I was conscious of a lot if my friends being into things that I wasn’t into. Sarcasm, for example. It was not a part my family. They still don’t use it."

- Kate Bush

Self-awareness

"The problem with being open-minded is that people will insist on trying to put things in their place."

- Terry Pratchett

Awareness

"Let’s share, you’ll take the grenade, I’ll take the pin."

- Anonymous

Courage

"If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big."

- Donald Trump

Ambition

"Can I have one of your puppies if you ever become a mom?"

- Charles Pierce

Relationships

"The road to success is always in construction."

- Lily Tomlin

Success

"Leadership refers to the art of convincing someone else to do what you want, because he is motivated to."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

"I’m not old enough to know everything."

- Oscar Wilde

Wisdom

"All the good ones have been taken."

- Murphy’s Laws

Relationships

"I look at all these moms who are able to do everything and I think… I should have them do some of the things I need."

- Anonymous

Self-care

"Computers can understand sarcasm better than Americans."

- Geoffrey Hinton

Awareness

"What doesn’t kill you gives you a set of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a dark sense of humor."

- Anonymous

Adversity

"Find your patience before you lose mine."

- Anonymous

Courage

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

Aspirations

"There are people who will come into your life and pretend that they love you, but they really only need you."

- Uzair Lallmamod

Relationships

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

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"What sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. And a lot of the time, it's what makes you great."

- Emma Stone

Self-confidence

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

Self-awareness

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Alexander the Great

Motivation

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water."

Courage

"Think like a proton. Always positive."

Positivity

"Be happy – it drives people crazy."

Happiness

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

Success

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

Change

"The best things in life are actually really expensive."

Contentment

"Happiness is just sadness that hasn’t happened yet."

Happiness

"Every tattoo is temporary, because we’re all slowly dying."

Awareness

"Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them."

Aspirations

"If the world didn't suck we'd all fly into space."

Optimism

"The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts."

Courage

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

Self-awareness

"If you find me offensive. Then I suggest you quit finding me."

Adaptation

"Zombies eat brains. You’re safe."

Creativity

"I love sarcasm. It’s like punching people in the face but with words."

Creativity

"The greatest glory in living lies not in falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Resilience

"Life has got all those twists and turns."

Philosophy

"Nothing is impossible."

Optimism

"The bad news is time flies."

Awareness