100 Inspiring and Funny When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes

Everyone has heard a version of the famous ‘when life gives you lemons make lemonade’ saying. Some versions are meant to inspire and some are meant to amuse. We have gathered all the best when life gives you lemons quotes that are inspirational, funny or short for every occasion. So, now when life throws you a curve ball you will be ready to deal with it! It’s all about picking yourself up and making the best of the situation.

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Our Favorite When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes

“When life gives you lemons, take it. Don’t waste food.” – Giselle Marquez

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” – Cathy Guiswite

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back… What am I supposed to do with these? I demand to see life’s manager…” – J. K. Simmons

“When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.” – Behdad Sami

“When life gives you lemons….they could really be oranges.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“When life gives you lemons, sell them, and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.” – Davin Turney

“When life gives you lemons, say, ‘Cool, what else you got?’” ― Carmen in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“When life gives you lemons, plant its seeds, grow yourself an orchard, sell it to Sunkist. Carry on.” – José N. Harris

“When life hands you lemons, get yourself some limes because life can’t be trusted.” ― Safaya Carbon

Inspirational When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes

“If God gives you lemons, You must plant the seeds.” – Ana Claudia Antunes

“When life gives you lemons make lemon meringue pie.” – Colleen Houck

“When life gives you lemons, you don’t make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard, an entire franchise!” – Anthon St. Maarten

“When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

“If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.” – Conan O’Brien

“When life gives you lemons, take out the salt and the shot glasses and fill them up with tequila.” — Teodora Kostova

“When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and leave the world wondering how you did it.” – Mitch Griego

“When life gives you lemons, add melted butter, toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!” – Stuart J. Scesney

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager!” – Portal

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Funny Quotes for When Life Gives You Lemons

“When life gives you lemons, learn to juggle.” – James Patterson

“When life gives you lemons, freeze them, and use them to throw at your enemies using some sort of trebuchet.” – Jenny Lawson

“When life gives you lemons you tell life to get a life because lemons are a terrible gift.” – Patrick Schell

“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.” – Colleen Hoover

“When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.” – Grace Helbig

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.” – Napoleon Hill

“When life gives you lemons, go to a taco stand.” – Mariana Zapata

“When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise, your final product would be some acidic lemon juice!” – Priyavrat Gupta

“When life gives you lemons, keep them, cause hey — free lemons.” – Jake Hamilton

“When life gives you lemons, throw them back.” – Joe Jonas

“When life gives you lemons…add melted butter, toasted paprika, and dip some lobster in it!” – Stuart J Scesney

“When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.” – Bill Watterson

“When life gives you lemons, sell them, and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.” – Davin Turney

“When life gives you lemons, you might as well shove ’em where the sun doesn’t shine because you sure as hell aren’t ever going to see any lemonade.” – Rob Thurman

“When life gives you lemons, throw them at people. HARD.” ― Thomas J. Montemarano

“When life gives you lemons, make champagne, and leave the whole world wondering how you did it!” ― Marjory Sheba

When Life Gives You Lemons Make Lemonade Quotes

“If you have a lemon, make a lemonade.” – Dale Carnegie

“When life gives you lemons don’t make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.” – Wanda Sykes

“I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade…and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” – Ron White

“When life hands you lemonade, don’t try to make lemons.” – Vince Guthrie

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then figure out how to sell it for $5.00 a glass.” – John Woodman

“Life handed me lemons, so I made lemonade, lemon cake, lemon drops, and I even used the rinds to make lemon art. So the joke is on you, life…” – Emilyann Allen

“I got handed lemons too, you know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No one ever told me I had to add sugar but that’s life for you. It ain’t sweet.” – Elizabeth Flock

“I was of the ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff’ school of thought.” – Cate Tiernan

“If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them.” – Stephen King

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.” – Louise Hay

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.” – Cassandra Clare

“The old saying is that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I say forget that. When life gives you lemons, make margaritas.” – Kristin Neff

“When life gives you lemons, forget the lemonade. Make a lemon chicken and a rich lemon cheesecake. Blame life for the extra pounds.” – Suzie Smith

“As far as I’m concerned, there are two types of people in this world: people like Queeg who when life gives them lemons make lemonade, and everyone else. And although those smug lemonade-makers think the rest of us just sit around all day bitching about not getting oranges, they’re wrong. It’s all about volume. When you’re ass-deep in lemons, you start looking for a shovel, not a pitcher, and a cup of sugar.” ― Melissa DeCarlo

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, pickle, lemon tart or whatever the heck you want. But make something and don’t just stand there and allow your problem to become a virus infiltrating every sphere of life. Problems are good, bad and some worth ignoring yet solution exists for a reason.” – Rajeev Anand

Funny When Life Gives You Lemons Sayings

“When life gives you lemonade, it’s time to open the gin.”

“When life gives you lemons, do a lemon water detox.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and sell it for a profit.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemon marmalade.”

“When life gives you lemons, use them to make pickles.”

“When life gives you lemons, juice them up, plant the seeds, and throw the rinds back at life.”

“When life gives you lemons, chuck it back on life’s face and say, ‘No, Thank you!’”

“When life gives you lemons, juice them up, plant the seeds and throw the rinds back at life.”

“When life gives you lemons, gift wrap them and give it to someone else.”

“When life gives you lemons… get creative.”

“When life gives you lemons squeeze them in people’s eyes.”

“When life gives you lemons, sell them on ebay.”

“When life gives you lemons, pickle them up and use when needed.”

“When life gives you lemons, find a few friends and play the lemon and spoon race.”

“When life gives you lemons, grab tequila and salt.”

Inspirational Life Quotes

“You can either see your life as filled with sour lemons that make your eyes water or filled with zest and energy of the refreshing juice that awakens your taste buds – how you see life is your choice!” – Tanja Christine Jaeger

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.” — Rick Warren

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Hard times always lead to something great.” – Betsey Johnson

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.” – Mother Teresa

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”— Oprah Winfrey

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Enjoy every moment because life is too short to fret over hardships.” – Himaja Sirigiri

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

“Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.” – Eric Davis

“Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.” – Gail Sheehy

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

“A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.” – Theodore Zeldin

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“I’ll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you’ll find your way through.” – Joan Bauer

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

“It’s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.” – Karen Marie Moning

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill

“As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is that if you don’t want to be a lemon, you don’t have to be! Just don’t let those lemons rub themselves all over you! And you don’t even have to save them! Let lemons be lemons! One of the most important things that I have ever learned is that I don’t have to save people.” – C. JoyBell

Lemon Quotes

We are ending our list with a few lemon quotes.

“Natural, easily available, safe, and inexpensive – lemon and honey are essential ingredients of many age-old recipes for a beautiful and healthy body.” – Vijaya Kumar

“Bright yellow lemons twinkled in the twilight sun on a terrace tree, and far beyond my window, San Francisco lay, flat like a pastel toy.” ― Aspen Matis

“I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it’s supposed to balance your body’s pH. Not sure if that’s true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.” – Sonoya Mizuno

“She breathed in the scent of lemon blossoms, inspired by how their citrus sweetness mingled with fresh ocean air. Closing her eyes, she ran the tip of her tongue over her lips, tasting a faint saltiness in the moisture laden breeze. She imagined how dark, rich chocolate filled with the brightness of a lemon filling and dusted with chunky sea salt might taste. Delicious, she decided.” ― Jan Moran

“There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I’m not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don’t do that.” – Frank Luntz

“Fifty lemons are a load for one person, but for fifty persons they are perfume.” – Ethiopian Proverb

“A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.” – Oscar Wilde

“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.” – Alfred E.Newman

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Lemons offer far more than delicious smells and a sour flavor.” – Chris Shaw

“Lemonade is not just made of lemons. It’s barely lemons! It’s mostly water and sugar! Life didn’t give us that.” – Ryan Higa

“That evening after dinner, I picked lemons from the tree in the backyard, the fruits golden bulbs under the rising moon.” ― Aspen Matis

“She always told me that lemons clarify things; they symbolize happiness and hope.” ― Rachel Linden

And there you have it! We hope you found the perfect quote.

Now, try to keep a positive attitude and make the best of anything life hands you.