Everyone needs a little humor sometimes and when it comes to funny quotes, inspirational ones are often the best. Here we have gathered the best funny inspirational quotes to add positive humor to your day and life.
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Short Funny Inspirational Quotes
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” – Mark Twain
“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
“I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.” – H. Kyle Seale
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
“I’m an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.” – Harold Wilson
“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright
“Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle
“When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….” – E.A. Bucchianeri
“When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” –Chinese Proverb
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – A. A. Milne
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” – Charlie Chaplin
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
“Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion.” – Tina Fey
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the futre.” – Niels Bohr
“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
“Be happy, it drives people crazy.” — Paulo Coelho
“Aspire to inspire before we expire.” — Eugene Bell Jr.
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Inspirational Quotes for Today, Success Quotes and Inspirational Life Quotes.
Positive Funny Inspirational Quotes
“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
“Do or do not. There is no try. “ — Yoda
“It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare.” — Benjamin Dover
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” — Sam Levenson
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” — Isaac Asimov
“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
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” — Steven Wright
“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
“A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.” — Mark Twain
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” — Billy Wilder
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams
“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
“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
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.” — Ethel Barrymore
“Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost.” — Ellen DeGeneres
“Bad decisions make good stories.” — Ellis Vidler
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” — Andy Rooney
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” — Terry Pratchett
“See the world like a big wardrobe. Everybody has his own costume. There is only one that fits you perfectly.” — George Harris
“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” — Lord Byron
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” — Kyle Chandler
“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.” — Louis Agassiz
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” — Franklin P. Jones
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” — Albert Einstein
“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.” — Elvis Presley
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished— If you’re alive it isn’t.” — Richard Bach
“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
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.” – Don Marquis
“I am only human, although I regret it.” – Mark Twain
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” – Will Rogers
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” – Steven Wright
“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” — Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar
“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration.” — Robert Bresson
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” — Steven Wright
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain
“There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.” — Amy Poehler
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” — Yogi Berra
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark Twain
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ — Robert Downey Jr.
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles Schulz
Inspirational Funny Quotes About Life
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” — Bill Watterson
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” — Reba McEntire
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
“When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade and then try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” — Ron White
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget tossing in the lifeboats.” — Voltaire
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” — Cathy Guisewite
“Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” — Tom Lehrer
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
“Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“Life is good. Or at least, it’s always interesting.” – Joss Stone
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Shawshank Redemption
“You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” – Nick Maley
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”—Confucius
“Turn every life situation into a positive one.” – Rhonda Byrne
“Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.” —S. C. Lourie
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” —Thomas S. Monson
“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi
“Positive energy knows no boundaries.” – Lu Wei
“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there.” – Shelley Long
“It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.” – Naval Ravikant
“Every morning is a revolution against the darkness.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.” — Jim Carrey
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.” – Ernie Banks
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.” —Yiddish Proverb
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” —Florence Nightingale
“One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar
“You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.” – Shawn Achor
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.” – Marianne Williamson
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” – Gustave Flaubert
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” – Albert Einstein
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams
“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.”
“If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough.” — Phyllis Diller
“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
“oh, yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it.” — Rafiki, “the Lion King”
Inspiring Funny Quotes About Love
“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!” – Tom Lehrer
“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” – Jackie Mason
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles Schulz
“Haters are just confused admirers because they can’t figure out the reason why everyone loves you.” — Jeffree Star
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.” – Mae West
“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl S. Bailey
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” – William Goldman
“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman
“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl Bailey
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken
“Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.” – Thomas Dewar
Funny Inspirational Quotes for Work
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” — Frank Zappa
“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.” — Charles J. Sykes
“Working hard is important. But there is something that matters more, believing yourself.” — Harry Potter
“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.” — Will Rogers
“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
Funny Inspirational Quotes for Women
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” — Marilyn Monroe
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” — Margaret Thatcher
“Everything is figureoutable.”— Marie Forleo
“In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.” – Luvvie Ajayi
“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Especially not yourself.” —Mindy Kaling
“Once you know who you are, you don’t have to worry anymore.” —Nikki Giovanni
“Don’t be like the rest of them darling.” —Coco Chanel
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” —Katharine Hepburn
“It’s not your job to be likeable. It’s your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Laynni Locke
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