It’s Friday and the work week is just about over. Sometimes you need a little extra motivation to get going. If you are looking for Friday work quotes, you have come to the right place. If you’re feeling a little unmotivated or need some humor to get you moving, these Friday work motivation quotes will give you an extra push.
Start scrolling to find your favorite Friday quote for work.
Our Favorite Happy Friday Work Quotes
“Its always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves..they tend to spill over..” ― Parag Tipnis
“I look forward to Fridays because I know I have spent the week offering encouragement, solace, assistance, and good-will to everyone I have met through my journey.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Every Friday, I like to high five ourselves for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, will power, and inappropriate humour.” – Nanea Hoffman
“This Friday, finish your work and be done. Look forward to the weekend and have some fun!” – Kate Summers
“If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn’t want me here either.” – James Johnson
“Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.” – Raimonda.B
“It’s finally Friday, I’m free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend.” —George Jones
“I challenge you to let every day be a Friday. Permit yourself to be happy every day.” – Joel Osteen
“Friday fills my day with hope & happiness.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” — Joseph Barbara
“Happy Friday! Here’s to all of us who made it through another week of faking adulthood.” – Nanea Hoffman
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” — Roy T. Bennett
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
“Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.” — Brian Tracy
“Friday 13th is only bad luck if you choose it to be.” – Denise Mansfield
“Your turn comes on Friday, so think about it.” – Irma Grese
“Time goes slower on a Friday afternoon.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
“Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two-day break from it.” – Robert Black
“Friday afternoon feels like heaven…” – El Fuego
“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” — Patrick Suskind
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” — Tyler Perry
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Inspirational Work Quotes and work quotes specific to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Friday Motivational Quotes for Work
“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. Well done.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in the time to the next paycheck.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Don’t wait all week for Friday so you can enjoy life. Find a job you love so you can enjoy every day of the week.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Honestly, I never really understood the glorification of Fridays & weekends. I don’t want to build a life and career, where I spent five days a week waiting for the weekend. No! I want to enjoy my life, and don’t wish any weekday away. I want each day to matter to me, in some way, even if it’s a small tiny way. I love my life. Everyday. That’s the spirit we should convey all around us.” ― Akilnathan Logeswaran
“Finally, FRIDAY! Be easy today! Remember, it’s a job. I know it is how we eat and pay bills and provide health care to our family. But keep it in perspective; get there, do the best job you can, earn your check, and leave it at your desk at 5! Your REAL life begins when you end the workday. Save your emotional energy for that!!” ― Liz Faublas
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden
“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” — Gertrude B. Elion
“Dream big, stay positive, work hard and enjoy the journey.” – Urijah Faber
“Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it.” — Charlie Munger
“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” — Haile Gebrselassie
“Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” — Prabakaran Thirumalai
“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” — Lou Holtz
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” — Olin Miller
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” — Jim Rohn
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” – Noel Coward
“It’s 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?” ― Amy Neftzger
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vince Lombardi
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
“With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.” — Antoine Griezmann
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King
“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” – Kate Summers
“Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.” — Mary Kay Ash
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” — Dale Carnegie
“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” — Iain Duncan Smith
“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses.” — Kobe Bryant
“Go and get your things. Dreams mean work.” — Paolo Coelho
“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus.” — Helen Hanson
“With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.” — Antoine Griezmann
“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” — Lowell Thomas
“Work hard. Play hard. Be kind.” — Harry Styles
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills
Funny Friday Work Quotes
“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!!” ― Neil Leckman
“And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you’ll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.” – Alfred Doblin
“For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury.” – John Sununu
“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you. It’s Friday I’m in love.” —The Cure
“Fridays, however have been regarded as unlucky since medieval times.” – Steve Roud
“It’s bad luck to begin work on Fridays.” – Southern Mothers
“Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest.” – D.S. Mixel
“Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard.” – Rico
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“As I have gotten older and wiser I discovered that there are six things that I really loved about my job. Pay day, lunch time, quitting time, vacation time, holidays, and of course retirement.” — Tom Goins
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar
“The reward for good work is more work.” — Francesca Elisia
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” — Don Herold
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
Friday Inspirational Quotes for Work
“That which has been promised comes to those who look forward to Friday. These are the achievements made possible through perseverance and focus.” – Byron Pulsifer
“When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“I understand what’s it like to work all week and on Friday night want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn, and be thrilled by something.” – Don Cheadle
“On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.” – Douglas Booth
“If you find you are stressed out during the week, then it is even more important that you focus on what you want to do for the weekend, don’t bring work home.” — Kate Summers
“Celebrate the new day with shouts of praise, love, and grace, and with a beautiful smile upon your face.” – Caroline Naoroji
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.“ — Alexander Graham Bell
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.” — Margaret Fuller
“Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” — Prabakaran Thirumalai
“I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.” — Jim Carrey
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak
“It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” — Mark Cuban
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn
“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” — G.K. Neilson
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” — Denis Waitley
“Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.” — Denis Waitley
“Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.” — Ed Bradley
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” — David Bly
“Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.” — Hill Harper
“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.” — Scott Adam
“Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” – S. O’Sade
“Stay strong, stay positive and never give up.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun.” – Hanna Rhoades
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” ― Bo Bennett
“The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.” ― Chris Pine
“Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.” ― Ralph Marston
“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” ― George Allen, Sr
“Having a positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.” ― Natalie Massenet
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucious
“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that’s a big part of what does make it work.” ― Shelley Long
“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.” — Hillary Clinton
“Keep positive. Stay focused. Stand strong. Fight on.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
“A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning – to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.” — Karen Salmansohn
“It’s called “teamwork” but most of the time it’s everyone sitting around until one man does all the work.” — Thomas Wilbur
“Teamwork – A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” — Larry Kersten
“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” — Patrick Lencioni
“Sure, there’s no ‘i’ in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an ‘e’.” — Kevin Myers
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
“Working together works.” — Dr. Rob Gilbert
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” — Matthew Woodring Stover
“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” — Stephen Hawking
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” — Pablo Picasso
“Tough times don’t last, tough teams do.” — Robert Schuller
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” — Henry Ford
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs
“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” – Stephen Hawking
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” — Rita Mae Brown
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.’ – Woody Allen
Good Morning Work Quotes for Friday
“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 Mbiakading
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” — Larry Page
“It’s Friday morning mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile!” —Napz Cherub Pellazo
“It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning.” — Gordon B. Kinkley
“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
“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.” — Paul Henderson
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.” — Larry King
“One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” — Robert Brault
“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” — Elon Musk
“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” — Lewis Black
“Saying good morning to the sun is my favorite way to start the day.” – Tahnni Dupre
“Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don’t do them anymore.” — Rachel Caine
“Some mornings I just feel like breaking the damn alarm but then one thing always stops me. I paid hundreds of dollars to buy my phone.” — Job Might
“When reality and dreams collide, typically it’s just your alarm clock going off.” — Crystal Woods
“I’m sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” — Frank Sinatra
“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.” — Jim Davis
“I hate mornings, they start so early.” — Janet Evanovich
“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” — Ursula Le Guin
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” — Glen Cook
“Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.” — Punit Ghadge
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.” – Malak El Halabi
“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees and then kindness.” — Nanea Hoffman
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” — Bob Marley
“Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Friday.” – Stephen King
So that is our list of quotes. We hope you found the one you were looking for.
Now get out there and make the best of your Friday!
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