Sometimes what is needed to find new motivation or energy is not deep wisdom or a pep talk.
Instead, what works best on some days is simply to take a laugh break and focus on having fun for a few minutes to release stress, lighten up and not take things too seriously.
And in today’s post I want to help you with that by sharing 160 of the most positive, stress reducing and funny inspirational quotes.
I hope you’ll find a bunch of laughs, a more relaxed perspective and a jolt of positivity here.
Funny Inspirational Quotes on Life That’ll Make You Laugh
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
– 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
“Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
– Helen Rowland
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.”
– Roy Orbison
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
– Bill Watterson
“A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.”
– Denis Waitley
“As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.”
– Sir Norman Wisdom
“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
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
– Mark Twain
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
– Ethel Barrymore
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
– Sydney J. Harris
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”
– Cullen Hightower
“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.”
– George Carlin
“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
“Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring? I said: ‘How to Build a Boat.’”
– Steven Wright
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.”
– Socrates
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
– Tom Clancy
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
– George Carlin
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
– Mark Twain
“Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
– Tom Lehrer
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise, we’re going down the tube.”
– Joan Rivers
Funny Motivational Quotes for Work and Success
“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
“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
“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
“Whatever you do, always give 100% – unless you’re donating blood.”
– Bill Murray
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
– W. C. Fields
“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
– Scott Adams
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life… because that field probably isn’t hiring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
– Robert Frost
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
– Sam Levenson
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin
“The reward for work well done is more work.”
– Jim Butcher
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
– Douglas Adams
“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.”
– Louis Agassiz
“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
– Sarah Brown
“I like to work in the morning. I just don’t like to be awake while I’m doing it.”
– Nora Ephron
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
– George Burns
“Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.”
– Paula Poundstone
“Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.”
– Tina Fey
“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
“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx
Short and Funny Inspirational Quotes
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”
– Mark Twain
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“Be happy, it drives people crazy.”
– Paulo Coelho
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
– Josh Billings
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
– Groucho Marx
“It could be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.”
– James A. Garfield
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
– Jim Carrey
“If any of you cry at my funeral, I’ll never speak to you again.”
– Stan Laurel
“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir
“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”
– George Burns
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
– Anthony Burgess
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
– Robin Williams
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.”
– Billy Wilder
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”
– Harry S. Truman
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Bad decisions make good stories.”
– Ellis Vidler
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”
– Steven Wright
Funny Inspirational Quotes for Your Morning
“There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.”
– Kristen Chandler
“I love the early hours of the day. It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.”
– James Lileks
“Thank you, 2:30 in the morning, for always being the first sign that tomorrow’s gonna suck.”
– Jimmy Fallon
“Mornings are almost clean slates. I say almost because the residue of yesterday’s is sometimes stuck on them.”
– Medeia Sharif
“Be the person your coffee thinks you are.”
– Liz Vassey
“Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.”
– Tony Smite
“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
– Marty Rubin
“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
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
– Glen Cook
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.”
– E. B. White
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
– Jean Kerr
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
– Richard Whately
“Keep the dream alive: hit the snooze button.”
– Punit Ghadge
“No alarm clock needed, surely my passion will wake me up.”
– Sandra Shea
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
– Jim Davis
Funny and Inspirational Sayings on Love and Friendship
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
– Sylvia Plath
“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
“A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell
“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push; you got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea that his first name was Always.”
– Rita Rudner
“There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.”
– Barack Obama
“Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.”
– Richard Jeni
“When you’re in love, it’s the most glorious two-and-a-half days of your life.”
– Richard Lewis
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.”
– Henry Youngman
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
– Lily Tomlin
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
– Mae West
“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 can change a person the way a parent can change a baby – awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
– Lemony Snicket
“Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
– Jules Renard
“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 is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
– Erich Segal
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
– Erma Bombeck
“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
“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
“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
Inspirational and Hilarious Quotes from Movies and TV
“If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.”
– Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
“Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That’s one of my mottos.”
– Stanley Hudson (from the TV-show The Office)
“What am I scared of? I’m scared of the same thing that you are: everything.”
– George Costanza (from the TV-show Seinfeld)
“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 (from the TV-show Parks and Recreation)
“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.”
– National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last.”
– Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”
– Dodgeball
“A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.”
– Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
“I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet.”
– Sex and the City
“My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
– Forrest Gump
“Just keep swimming.”
– Finding Nemo
“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
– Some Like It Hot
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
– Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
“You want to get out of the hole? First you’re going to have to put down the shovel.”
– Incredibles 2
“Your soul is like your appendix — I don’t even use it!”
– Michael Kelso (from the TV-show That ’70s Show)
“I’m a bit of a sucker for second chances. They’re my first favorite kind of chance.”
– Jessica Day (from the TV-show New Girl)
“Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV.”
– Morty (from the TV-show Rick and Morty)
“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 (from the TV-show The Office)
“I’m not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
– Chandler Bing (from the TV-show Friends)
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
– Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Alice in Wonderland
“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”
– Homer Simpson (from the TV-show The Simpsons)
“I don’t make the rules, ma’am. I just think them up and write them down.”
– Eric Cartman (from the TV-show South Park)
“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
“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 (from the TV-show Parks and Recreation)
“I love a good nap. Sometimes it’s the only thing getting me out of bed in the morning.”
– George Costanza (from the TV-show Seinfeld)
“Today is a good day to try.”
– The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“Here’s some advice I wish I woulda got when I was your age: live every week like it’s Shark Week.”
– Tracy Jordan (from the TV-show 30 Rock)
“If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”
– Jerry Seinfeld (from the TV-show Seinfeld)
“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.”
– Homer Simpson (from the TV-show The Simpsons)
Want more laughs and positive energy? Then have a look at these sarcastic quotes about life, the hilarious quotes about work here and also this one with funny quotes about getting old.