Funny Inspirational Work Quotes to Motivate with Humor

Work is always a bit more fun with some inspiration and maybe a laugh or two along the way, so we have put together a list of all the best funny inspirational work quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short funny inspirational work quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

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Funny Inspirational Work Quotes

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

“There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.” — Amy Poehler

“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

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” – Steven Wright

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” — Terry Pratchett

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” — Harold Geneen

“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin

“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” — Kyle Chandler

“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” — Bryan White

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” — Sam Levenson

“You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.” – Shawn Achor

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost

“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.” — Louis Agassiz

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius

“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.” — Ethel Barrymore

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles Schulz

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

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” — Andy Rooney

“Aspire to inspire before we expire.” — Eugene Bell Jr.

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”—Confucius

“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.” — Jim Carrey

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle

“Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion.” – Tina Fey

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration.” — Robert Bresson

“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” — Oscar Wilde

“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi

“If you want things to change, you need to change and change things.” ― Aiyaz Uddin

“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” — Hans Christian Andersen

“It’s bad luck to begin work on Fridays.” – Southern Mothers

“Once you know who you are, you don’t have to worry anymore.” —Nikki Giovanni

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama

“Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” — Tom Lehrer

“The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.” —Yiddish Proverb

“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

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Shawshank Redemption

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” — Frank Zappa

“Do or do not. There is no try. “ — Yoda

“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” – Noel Coward

“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.” – Ashleigh Brilliant

“Don’t be like the rest of them darling.” —Coco Chanel

“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” — Will Rogers

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” – Mark Twain

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” — Reba McEntire

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“To change your life, change something you do daily.” ― Robert Celner

“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” –Chinese Proverb

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark Twain

“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” — Margaret Thatcher

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar

“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.” — Will Rogers

“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.” – Chris Rock

“I am only human, although I regret it.” – Mark Twain

“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.” – Ernie Banks

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” —Katharine Hepburn

“Monday is the day that opens up the week for many opportunities.” – R.K. Narayan

“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” — Franklin P. Jones

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams

“The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

“Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

“A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.” — Mark Twain

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

“…By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don’t go out because it’s horrible.” – El-P

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – A. A. Milne

“You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” – Nick Maley

“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” — Steven Wright

 “Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost.” — Ellen DeGeneres

“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” – Will Rogers

“When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….” – E.A. Bucchianeri

“Be happy, it drives people crazy.” — Paulo Coelho

“Working hard is important. But there is something that matters more, believing yourself.” — Harry Potter

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain

“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.” — Elvis Presley

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie

“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright

“Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” — Cathy Guisewite

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” – Charlie Chaplin

“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves

“When life brings big winds of change that almost blow you over, close your eyes, hang on tight, and believe.” — Lisa Lieberman-Wang

“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

“It’s not your job to be likeable. It’s your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ — Robert Downey Jr.

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” — Billy Wilder

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.” – H. Kyle Seale

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder

“Life is short. Be silly. Have fun. Regret nothing. – Karen Salmansohn

“Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.” — Vaclav Havel

“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me… I’ll laugh at you.”

“It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?” — Captain Jack Sparrow

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.” —Joe Girard

“I am an early bird and a night owl… so I am wise and I have worms.” — Michael Scott, “The Office”

“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.” — Patches O’Houlihan

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” — Willy Wonka

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison

“Everything is figureoutable.”— Marie Forleo

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget tossing in the lifeboats.” — Voltaire

“Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It’s nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long” – Nicci French

“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” — Yogi Berra

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” — Albert Einstein

“Its always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves..they tend to spill over..” ― Parag Tipnis

“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Especially not yourself.” —Mindy Kaling

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” — Marilyn Monroe

“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!!” ― Neil Leckman

“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” — Steven Wright

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” — Mark Twain

“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” – George Weah

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers

“Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.” —S. C. Lourie

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” — Lord Byron

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” — Bob Hope

“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” —Thomas S. Monson

“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

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

“See the world like a big wardrobe. Everybody has his own costume. There is only one that fits you perfectly.” — George Harris

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” —Florence Nightingale

“Bad decisions make good stories.” — Ellis Vidler

“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.” – Don Marquis

“Every morning is a revolution against the darkness.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare.” — Benjamin Dover

“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

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” — Isaac Asimov

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.” — Charles J. Sykes

“The best weeks start on Monday.” – Nice Peter

“I’m an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.” – Harold Wilson

“You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.” — Sam Levenson

“Monday is for people with a mission.” – Christina Imre

So that is it for our list of Funny Inspirational Work Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

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