216 Best Funny Inspirational Quotes

Funny inspirational quotes can provide a unique and entertaining way to stay motivated and positive. These quotes can offer a much-needed break from the seriousness of life and provide a moment of laughter and inspiration. The right funny inspirational quote can lift your mood, make you smile, and help you see the lighter side of life. In this article, we have compiled a list of the best funny inspirational quotes to help you stay motivated and positive. These quotes can help you approach life’s challenges with a sense of humour, and find inspiration and motivation even in the most difficult situations.

“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.” – Marie Osmond
“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.” – Will Rogers
. “I have a simple philosophy: Fill what is empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“Complain a lot and people will hear you but not listen.” – Catherine Pulsifer
. “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
. “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Sam Levenson
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
. “Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” – Franklin P. Jones
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
. “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” – Woody Allen
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
. “Life is like a box of chocolates.” – Forrest Gump
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” – Tom Stoppard
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
. “Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.” – Andy Rooney
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead
. “In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” – Charles Schulz
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?” – George Carlin
“I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.” – Yogi Berra
. “If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” – Donald Trump
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” ―Mae West
. “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.” – Mitch Hedberg
“The only place where your dreams become impossible is in your own thinking.”– Robert H Schuller
. “You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.” — Sam Levenson
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown
. “It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare.” — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“Change is not a four-letter word… but often your reaction to it is!” – Jeffrey Gitomer
. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” – Mark Twain
“The trouble with the rat-race is that, even if you win, you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin
. “I have to be successful because I like expensive things.” — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.” – Amy Poehler
. “Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you are gonna do anyway.“ – Robert Downey Jr.
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King
. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” – Terry Pratchett
“Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost.” – Ellen DeGeneres
. “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” – George Carlin
“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.” – John Green
“I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.” – Marilyn Monroe
. “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” – Reba McEntire
. “The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.” – Malcolm Forbes
. “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.” – Ethel Barrymore
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” – Mark Twain
. “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa
“When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.” – Gracie Allen
. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” – Mark Twain
. “Aspire to inspire before we expire.” – Eugene Bell Jr
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” – Robert Frost
“Good things come to those who initiate.” – Susan RoAne
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“Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” –Benjamin Franklin
. “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” – Woody Allen
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher
. “Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished – If you’re alive it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.” – Dalai Lama
. “We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.” – W. H. Auden
“If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.” – Hippocrates
. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” – Bob Hope
. “Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a cha-cha.” – Robert Brault
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”– Abraham Lincoln
“You’re at your best when you don’t know what you’re doing.” – Paul Stanley
. “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”– Alan Dundes
“A good time for laughing is when you can.” – Jessamyn West
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”– Andy Rooney
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“Focus, focus, focus! What am I, a telescope?” – Naruto Uzumaki
. “If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”
– Ann Landers
“Free your mind and your ass will follow.” – George Clinton
. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”– Bertrand Russell
“I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.” – Robert Frost
. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”– Bernard Baruch
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”– Bill Watterson
“If you don’t know where you are, a map won’t help.” – Watts Humphrey
. “Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”– Bill Vaughan
“Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!” – Jeffrey Gitomer
. “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”– Bob Hope
“They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.”– Clint Eastwood
“Girls have got balls. They’re just a little higher up, that’s all.” – Joan Jett
. “By the time a man realises that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”– Charles Wadsworth
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” – Steven Wright
. “Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”– Cullen Hightower
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.”– Billy Wilder
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” – Henny Youngman
. “I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.”– Drake
“If you fall, I’ll always be there.” – The Floor
. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”– Elbert Hubbard
“There’s a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.” – Leonard Barnes
. “If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”– George Burns
“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.” – Hippocrates
. “I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.” – George Carlin
“When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.” – Bill Shoemaker
“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”– Henny Youngman
“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers
. “Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”– James Thurber
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”– Daniel J. Boorstin
“Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work.” – David Ogilvy
. “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”– Bryan White
“All men are equal before fish.” – Herbert Hoover
. “A failure is like fertiliser; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.”– Denis Waitley
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” – Will Rogers
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” – Katharine Hepburn
. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”– Dorothy Parker
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” – David Letterman
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“I am only human, although I regret it.” – Mark Twain
. “A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
. “Leave something for someone but don’t leave someone for something.”– Enid Blyton
“I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”―Bill Watterson
. “Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I love mankind… it’s people I can’t stand!!” ― Charles M. Schulz
. “I’m in shape. Round is a shape.”– George Carlin
“You never become a howling success by just howling.” – Bob Harrington
. “Haters are just confused admirers because they can’t figure out the reason why everyone loves you.”– Jeffree Star
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”―Oscar Wilde
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realise the extent of your own ignorance.”– Thomas Sowell
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” ―Cathy Guisewite
. “Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.”– Salvador Dali
“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” – Voltaire
“I’m not crazy — I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.”—Ouiser Boudreaux, Steel Magnolias
. “I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.”– Samuel Goldwyn
“Be happy, it drives people crazy.” — Paulo Coelho
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” – Mark Twain
. “You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.” – Solomon Schechter
I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet.” —Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
. “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.” — Elvis Presley
“It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”– Ronald Reagan
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.” – Don Marquis
. “I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!”– Tom Lehrer
“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” – Johnny Carson
. “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.”– Samuel Goldwyn
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” – Abraham Lincoln
. “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” – Charles Lamb
. “If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”– Scott Adams
“Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion.” – Tina Fey
. “Trying is the first step toward failure.” – Homer Simpson
“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.” – George Burns
. “It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!”– Steven Weinberg
“Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.” – Mae West
. “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” – Milton Berle
. “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”– Steven Wright
“Bending beats breaking.” ― Betty Greene
. “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” – Cathy Guisewite
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” – Groucho Marx
“Family — the ties that bind … and gag!” – Erma Bombeck
. “Today’s opportunities erase yesterday’s failures.” – Gene Brown
“I don’t care what they say about me. I just want to eat.” —Pam Beesly, The Office
. “It could be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
“Life is like a cobweb, not an organisation chart.” – Ross Perot
. “If you dig a grave for others you may fall into it yourself.” – Irish Proverbs
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” —Lucille Ball
. “Life only delivers to people that create their own postal code.” – Jelani Daniel
“The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.” – George Carlin
. “See the world like a big wardrobe. Everybody has his own costume. There is only one that fits you perfectly.” – George Harris
“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” – Sean O’Casey
. “Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.” – Charlie McCarthy
“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.” – Lawrence Welk
. “The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts.” – Fulton J. Sheen
“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”– Aristotle
. “Cause your facial expression to change – smile.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese.” —Luis Buñuel
. “Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a gossip.” – Richard Steele
“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.” —Barbara Walters
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“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia
“Always drink upstream from the herd.” – Will Rogers
. “A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.” – Lucille Ball
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” —Joey Adams
. “Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
“Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.” – Robert Half
“If you reach for a star, you might not get one. But you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.” – Leo Burnett
“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” – Malcolm Muggeridge
. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“Bad decisions make good stories.” — Ellis Vidler
. “You can’t experience simple joys when you’re living life with your hair on fire.” – Emily Ley
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible!” — Audrey Hepburn
. “A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.” – Mark Twain
“A peacock that rests on his tail feathers is just another turkey.” — Dolly Parton
. “If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.” – Glen Buck
“It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare.” — Benjamin Dover
. “Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.” – Bernard Sahlins
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — Winnie the Pooh
. “I think you can destroy yourself now by worrying about tomorrow.” – Janis Joplin
“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.” — Will Rogers
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“If you hit the target every time it’s too near or too big.” – Tom Hirshfield
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” —John Wooden
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.“ – Oscar Wilde
. “Life is a blank canvass, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
. “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” – Martina Navratilova
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.“ – Winston Churchill
. “A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” — Zig Ziglar
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller
. “Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing ’till it gets there.” – Josh Billings
“Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.” – Bill Copeland
. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
“Do or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda
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“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… Well, I have others.” – Groucho Marx
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”― Charles Dickens
. “Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
“My favourite machine at the gym is the vending machine.” — Caroline Rhea
“Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.” – Charles M. Schulz

conclusion

In conclusion, funny inspirational quotes can be a powerful tool for maintaining a positive and lighthearted approach to life. These quotes can provide a much-needed break from the seriousness of life and help us find humour in even the most challenging situations. By incorporating funny inspirational quotes into our daily lives, we can stay motivated, positive, and inspired. Laughter is often the best medicine, and these quotes can provide us with a daily dose of humour and inspiration to help us navigate life’s ups and downs. We hope the funny inspirational quotes shared in this article have brought a smile to your face and inspired you to approach life with a sense of humour.