“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
Madame Marie du Deffand

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
Earl Nightingale

Maybe the most common issue people have with personal development and making a positive change is that it stays a daydream. That they get excited and inspired.

But then as those positive emotions fade nothing really happens.

Life continues as usual. Your health, finances or your relationship with yourself stays the same.

It’s very frustrating. I know.

I used to read about personal development in pretty much all important areas of life. But it probably took me months or years to get going with making any of those positive changes.

Why?

It was uncomfortable. Making the changes felt so big that is was easier to just kept dreaming about it as frustration built up within.

So what can you do if you get stuck in daydreams? The best solution I’ve found for starting to make your dreams into reality is to go smaller.

Because grand changes and huge ambitions sound so inspiring and motivating. But they’re also scary.

So the most important step to get started and to keep going, especially when you are new to personal development, is to remove as much pressure and expectations as you can.

That’s at least what has worked and still works best for me. And in this article I’ll share how to do that in two simple ways.

1. Go for just taking a small step.

I have mentioned this many times. With good reason.

It’s one of the most effective ways to reduce the pressure and the expectations you may put on yourself and to start moving out of standing still or procrastination.

Now, taking just one small step and focusing on that is for instance a great way to become productive at school or at work.

But it can be used in just about any area in life. If you want to become:

• Kinder and improve your relationships then just take one small step by giving someone a genuine compliment.
• A better listener then have just one conversation today where you focus as much effort as you can on learning more about the person in front of you. And truly be there as best as you can and nowhere else in your mind.
• Someone with a less cluttered home then start by taking 5 minutes to unclutter one shelf in your bookcase or a drawer in your desk.

If you like, then tomorrow you can take the same small action and just focus on that.

If you want to take a first step and get started with something then do it today. Someday so easily becomes never or at least a day several months or years into the future. Don’t make that mistake.

And if the first small step you come up with still seems too big to take then think of an even smaller step. Be kind to yourself in this way and make the start as easy on yourself as you can.

2. Go for just taking care of today.

When you feel overwhelmed, tired and just want to quit or relapse into your old and more negative habits then sit down for a minute.

Breathe.

Then narrow your focus greatly. Don’t look forward because then you’ll see all the things you have to do to reach your goal or to create a new habit.

Instead, go smaller and focus on just taking care of today.

Nothing more. Tomorrow will come in time. And then you will take care of that today too.

I highly recommend keeping this narrow focus a daily thing.

Sure, you may have to do some planning. Do that early in the week or day. Then shrink your focus again to make your work and life lighter and more effortless.

Focus on just the small steps and on today and soon you will have traveled quite a distance.

If you or someone you know has an anniversary coming up and you need to find the right words to express how you feel, then you’re in the right place.

Because in today’s post I want to share 130 of the most meaningful, funny and famous anniversary quotes, wishes and messages.

Use them in a card, in a social media post on Instagram, at a celebration or in any way you want to make that special day extra memorable and filled with love and positive energy.

Happy Anniversary Quotes and Wishes for Couples

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
– Angelita Lim

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
– Stephanie Perkins

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
– Cassandra Clare

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
– A.A. Milne

“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
– Paul Sweeney

“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”
– Zane Grey

“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.”
– Julia Child

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
– Simone Signoret

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë

“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”
– Barnette R. Brickner

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James Baldwin

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning

“An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.”
– Zoe Foster Blake

“I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.”
– Ian McEwan

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.'”
– Erich Fromm

“I wouldn’t change a thing, as happiness you bring. You are my soulmate. A marriage made by fate.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert Heinlein

“Real love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach

Short Happy Anniversary Quotes and Messages

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Herman Hesse

“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell

“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life.”
– Julia Child

“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
– Lee Christopher

“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”
– Ed Sheeran

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”
– Elaine Davis

“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.”
– George Sand

“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.”
– Faraaz Kazi

“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.”
– Virginia Woolf

“True love stories somehow always find a way forward through the obstacles of life.”
– Unknown

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher

“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
– Frank Sinatra

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou

Funny Happy Anniversary Quotes

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
– Rita Rudner

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
– Terry Pratchett

“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”
– Henny Youngman

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
– Winston Churchill

“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell

“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
– Henny Youngman

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
– Agatha Christie

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.”
– Ogden Nash

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
– Jim Carrey

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.”
– Albert Einstein

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”
– Groucho Marx

“I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.”
– Cameron Esposito

“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!”
– Jacques Pepin

“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
– Clint Eastwood

“Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.”
– Ogden Nash

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
– Socrates

Meaningful Happy Anniversary Quotes and Wishes for Cards

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
– André Maurois

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”
– Harville Hendrix

“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault

“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”
– Paul Newman

“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
– Sam Levenson

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
– Dave Meurer

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.”
– Louis de Bernières

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
– Ruth Bell Graham

“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones

“Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork, a mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”
– Fawn Weaver

“You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen

“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
– Doug Larson

“A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.”
– Dave Willis

“When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.”
– Helen Gahagan Douglas

“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.”
– Anthony Kennedy

“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps

“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale – it’s a choice.”
– Fawn Weaver

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
– Michael Leunig

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
– Honoré de Balzac

Happy Anniversary Quotes and Wishes for a Wife or Husband

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A good marriage isn’t something you find. It’s something you make, and you have to keep on making it.”
– Gary Thomas

“I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together.”
– Mark Twain

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”
– Franz Schubert

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
– Judy Garland

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you directly, without problems or pride.”
– Pablo Neruda

“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.”
– Joanne Woodward

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
– Nora Ephron

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
– Bruce Lee

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.”
– Roy Croft

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss

“I said I love you, that’s forever.”
– Billy Joel

“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
– Taylor Swift

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.”
– Katharine Hepburn

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.”
– Joey W. Hill

“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
– Valerie Lombardo

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss

Famous Happy Anniversary Quotes and Messages

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
– Rumi

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”
– Mary Oliver

“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”
– Barbara De Angelis

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.”
– Robert Fulghum

“A happy marriage is the world’s best bargain.”
– O.A. Battista

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”
– Diane Sawyer

“In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
– Tom Mullen

“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
– Barbara De Angelis

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.”
– Gene Perret

“A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.”
– Jessica Simpson

“When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.”
– Julia Roberts

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
– Vincent van Gogh

Want more inspiration for your celebration? Then have a look at these funny anniversary quotes, the inspirational wedding quotes here and also this one with short marriage and wedding quotes.

August is at our doorstep with a summer that is slowly winding down.

A bittersweet mix of lovely summer memories and warm relaxing days but with the notion that it will end pretty soon as we go back to regular routines and the weather drifts into fall.

So to help you to make the most of this month I’d like to share 90 of the most positive, witty, uplifting and funny August quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make you and your loved ones laugh, to help you to release a bit of stress and to make this a happy and fun month.

Funny August Quotes for a Happy End to the Summer Season

“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”
– Sue Monk Kidd

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker

“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman

“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your New Year’s resolution for seven months and not doing it for the next five.”
– Crestless Wave

“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
– Natalie Babbitt

“August is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.”
– Mak Cov

“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.”
– Gladys Taber

“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”
– Henry Rollins

“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”
– Rasmenia Massoud

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.”
– Jane Smiley

“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.”
– Joseph Epstein

“August depresses me a little. I don’t even feel like eating. And when I don’t eat, that’s a sure sign of stagnation.”
– Willard Scott

“Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy, and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.”
– Sylvia Plath

“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong.”
– Alice Hoffman

“The English winter ending in July to recommence in August.”
– Lord Byron

“It’s part of the American experience. We deal with mosquitoes in August.”
– Monica Hesse

“When August days are hot and dry, I won’t sit by and sigh or die, I’ll get my bottle on the sly, and go ahead, and fish, and lie.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.”
– Jenny Han

Hilarious August Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell

“I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year.”
– Bridget Willard

“Every summer, my mother would say, ‘Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'”
– Chris Matthews

“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
– Erma Bombeck

“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
– Nora Ephron

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain

“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!”
– Chris Pratt

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We used to play football on the levee with no shirts on in the summer August in New Orleans, and my skin would turn red.”
– Aaron Neville

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
– Kellie Elmore

“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
– Taylor Swift

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

Short and Funny August Quotes

“August is a wicked month.”
– Edna O’Brien

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett

“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer

“The August sun, God’s blood blister.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch

“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”
– Denise Levertov

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen

“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams

“In August, most of Europe goes on holiday.”
– Tony Visconti

“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.”
– Thomas Tusser

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens

“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer

“August slipped away like a bottle of wine.”
– Taylor Swift

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden

“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
– The Beatles

“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
– Catherine Pulsifer

Funny and Beautiful August Quotes for Your Instagram and Letter Board

“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!”
– Kenny Chesney

“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee

“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson

“That August time it was delight, to watch the red moons wane to white.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.”
– Victoria Erickson

“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
– Sara Baume

“August of another summer, and once again, I am drinking the sun, and the lilies again are spread across the water.”
– Mary Oliver

“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James

“The brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.”
– Helen M. Winslow

“One evening in August, you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden, it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.”
– Tove Jansson

“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore

“On the shore of nature’s magic, I dreamed summer knew no end.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls

“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!”
– Paul Dini

“It’s August and soon everything will be all about pumpkin spice again, no matter if you like it or not.”
– Alice Jones

“Your August can be as memorable as the leaving summer.”
– Jennifer Lewis

“August is the border between summer and autumn. It is the most beautiful month I know.”
– Tove Jansson

Funny and Aesthetic End of Summer Quotes

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.”
– E.B. White

“Alas, summer sun can’t last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.”
– Sarah MacLean

“The only thing moving fast in August is the calendar – everything else is still in that summer slow motion.”
– Jim Harper

“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath

“Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer.”
– Denis Mackail

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”
– Paul Monette

“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
– Sebastian Faulks

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck

“By August, my garden has given up on me, and frankly, I’m done with it too.”
– Sarah Kelly

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
– Susan Branch

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter

“August is for changes and strength.”
– Luke Hamlet

“Nothing says August like pretending you still have plenty of summer left while secretly you’re starting to panic about September.”
– Sandra Shea

Want more laughs and inspiration for your summer? Then check out these inspirational end of summer quotes, the funny summer quotes here and also this one with lots of short and positive summer quotes.

“I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.”
Unknown

Staying motivated until you reach your goals and dreams isn’t always easy.

There are often roadblocks, plateaus and valleys along the way where you can get into a slump. Or a rut.

And feel like you’ve simply lost your motivation somewhere along the way.

So today I would like to share 17 tips, strategies and habits that I have used to find that motivation again.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here.

1. Refocus on doing what YOU really, really like to do.

When you really like doing something then the motivation to do it comes automatically (most of the time). And when you really want something then it simply becomes easier to push through any inner resistance you feel.

So if you lose your motivation, ask yourself:

Am I doing what I really want to do?

If not and if possible, refocus and start working on that very important thing instead.

2. Make a list of upsides.

Write down all the benefits you will get from achieving something, like for example getting into better shape or making more money.

Save it and then pull that list out of the drawer whenever your motivation is lacking again and review it. Or put it somewhere where you will see it every day until you reach your dream.

This is a powerful way to reconnect with your motivation and reasons for taking action.

3. Make a list of downsides.

You can combine this with the list of upsides to give yourself even more motivation to start moving and get things done.

Ask yourself:

• How will my life look in 5 years if I continue to stay on the same path as now?
• How will life likely become worse for me and maybe even for the people around me?

Try to see the negative consequences as vividly as you can in your mind to kick-start your motivation to start going for that positive change again.

4. Spend 3 minutes on remembering your successes.

If you lose your motivation then it is easy to get stuck in looking at your failures and so you get stuck in that slump.

So instead, sit down for three minutes and just remember your successes. Let them wash over you and refuel your inspiration and motivation.

5. Go for a bigger goal.

Set a big goal that inspires you even if it may seem a tad unrealistic at the moment.

If you have too easily achievable goals then you may find that they don’t give you that motivational spark and drive. When you start to think a bit bigger then you get motivated and your mind starts looking for the solutions that will help you achieve that goal.

Thinking too small can leave you with a “meh…” feeling or make you feel like you can do it later.

6. Or go for a small or tiny goal.

If having a medium-sized goal don’t feel too inspiring and a bigger goal feels overwhelming then try to set a smaller one instead. Or even just a tiny one.

A smaller goal could be to just workout for 15 minutes today or 5 minutes on getting going with your essay for school.

And a tiny one – if the smaller one leads to procrastination – could for example be to just work out for 1-2 minutes.

The most important thing if you’re standing still is to start moving and to build some momentum forward. So do that with one or a few small or tiny steps at first if that’s what will work for you at this time.

7. Remember how far you have come and compare yourself with yourself.

Comparing what you have and your results to what other people have and have accomplished can really kill your motivation.

There are always people ahead of you.

So focus on you. On your results. And how you can and have improved your life and results.

This is important because it’s a great motivator to see how much you have improved and how far you have come. Often you can be pleasantly surprised when you do such a review.

8. Reconnect with optimism.

How you perceive what you are doing or are about to do makes a huge difference.

The positive and constructive way of looking at things energizes and inspires you. It makes it easier to keep going even when you hit roadblocks.

So ask yourself questions like:

• What is one thing that awesome about this situation?
• What can I learn from this and what is one opportunity in this situation?
• How can I or we solve this and what is the next small step that I or we can take to start doing that?

9. Work out.

I like this one because even if you feel too frustrated and down to ask yourself the right questions you can still drag yourself to the gym or wherever you go to exercise.

And if you just do your pretty mindless repetitions then your body will do the rest.

Endorphins and other chemicals will be released. Inner tensions will loosen up and leave your body.

Your negative emotional pattern will be broken. And new energy will be added to your body.

10. Talk about it.

Sometimes you just need to let it out and to talk to someone about your motivational low point. Letting it all out can release a lot of pent up emotion and let you get a new, more positive and healthy perspective on things.

Often we build our own small or medium-sized problems into big scary monsters in our minds.

Letting the monsters out into the light and letting others see them can make us realize that we were making a too big of a deal out of it all.

It allows us to lighten up a bit, to not take things too seriously and to start moving forward and find that lost motivation again.

So talk to a friend or family member. Or try an anonymous internet forum with like-minded people.

11. Remember to have fun.

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the seriousness of a task and the stress and tension of completing it.

So remember that you are allowed to have fun when you are working on it.

There is no rule that says you have to be all serious about it all the time.

When you can, create fun in a task. Compete with yourself to finish it even faster than you did the last time, whistle a nice tune while working or have fun and joke around with your co-workers and class mates.

12. Start moving and let the motivation catch up with you.

Many times I have found it better to just do it and start working instead of trying to motivate myself to get going.

At first what you do may suck quite a bit and it’s hard going. But after a while inspiration and motivation seems to catch up with you.

Things start to flow easier and your work is of a higher quality.

13. Get accountability from one or a few people in your life.

Getting your goal, dream or new habit that you’re working on out into the world can make a big difference for your motivation levels.

So tell a few friends on social media what you will do. Or talk to one of them on the phone or in person and ask her to check up on you and your progress regularly.

By putting a bit of social pressure on yourself and getting some follow up once a week or twice a month you’ll be less likely to give up at the first obstacle or try to weasel out of your commitment.

14. Let the motivation from others (close by and far away in the world) flow over to you.

Spend more of your week with the people in your life that are enthusiastic, motivated or optimistic.

And let motivation from all over the world into your daily life and mind by:

• Listening to positive podcasts.
• Visiting uplifting websites.
• Watching inspiring online videos or movies.
• Exploring motivating books and biographies about the most successful people in history.

15. Have a bit of friendly competition.

Engage in a bit of friendly competition with a co-worker or school friend about, for example, who can finish a boring or routine task first.

The winner can get a free ice-cream, fruit bowl or something else that’s small but a motivating reward from the other person.

16. Take a break.

Yeah, sometimes you just need to take a break.

Perhaps your time-plan for your goal or new habit is just too optimistic?

Maybe you have worked harder than you can manage right now. Then take a break.

A few hours or days of rest and recuperation can change how you feel in a remarkable way and recharge your batteries.

17. Step out in nature for a bit.

Very few things in life give me so much new motivation and energy as being out in nature.

So I often go out for a walk in the nearby woods and focus on just taking all the sights and smells in and on breathing the fresh air without thinking about anything special.

Stress, demanding bosses, boredom and negative co-workers can drag both your energy and motivation down.

If that’s the case for you today, then this post can help you out and give you a boost of positive energy.

In it I want to share 101 of the most encouraging, funny, uplifting and motivational workplace quotes by women.

I hope you’ll find something here to help you to turn a bad morning or day around, make you laugh and help you release some stress and spread the positive vibes to co-workers and friends who might need a boost too.

Workplace Quotes by Women for a Boost of Positive and Encouraging Energy

“There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman

“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
– Alice Walker

“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put sunglasses on.”
– Lady Gaga

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
– Helen Keller

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
– Michelle Obama

“Be thankful for what you have, and you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou

“Not having the best situation but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.”
– Marie Forleo

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller

“Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.”
– Simone Biles

“You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.”
– Kesha

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou

“I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this.”
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
– Iyanla Vanzant

“The hard work definitely paid off, and hard work always does.”
– Gabby Douglas

“I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you.”
– Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
– Dolly Parton

Short Workplace Quotes by Women

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem

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

“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Done is better than perfect.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills

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

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”
– Helen Hayes

“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.”
– Jillian Michaels

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“Stay positive, work hard.”
– Debbie Millman

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

“We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
– Marie Curie

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
– Coco Chanel

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
– Margaret Mead

“Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”
– Dorothy Parker

“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
– Brené Brown

Funny Workplace Quotes by Women

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.”
– Betty Reese

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
– Lily Tomlin

“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.”
– Sarah Cooper

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
– Rita Mae Brown

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

“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying.”
– Rita Rudner

“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
– Phyllis Diller

“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
– Sarah Brown

“The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
– Lily Tomlin

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

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with funny people.”
– Carol Burnett

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
– Bette Midler

“I’m not late, I just like to make an entrance.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“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

“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Françoise Giroud

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want them to move in with me.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
– Katharine Whitehorn

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.”
– Jane Goodall

“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

Workplace Quotes by Women for the Tough Days

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”
– Karen E. Quinones Miller

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
– Anne Lamott

“Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it.”
– Andrena Sawyer

“As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.”
– Margaret Heffernan

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
– Joan Collins

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou

“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
– Carrie Fisher

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.”
– Jessica Ennis

“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.”
– Aisha Tyler

“Don’t run before you can crawl. It’s a very hard business, full of many, many extremely creative, talented people who work hard and still fail. If you have the basic building blocks behind you, you’re much more likely to do well.”
– Anna Wintour

“If you’re in a job that you hate, don’t be scared of seeking out something that might be riskier. Anything can turn into something with passion and hard work.”
– Whitney Wolfe Herd

“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.”
– Mildred Struven

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin. But you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
– Harper Lee

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
– Helen Keller

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.”
– Anna Quindlen

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
– Maya Angelou

Inspirational Workplace Quotes by Women

“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.”
– Gertrude B. Elion

“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The key to success is to start before you are ready.”
– Marie Forleo

“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.”
– Jana Kingsford

“I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.”
– Lucille Ball

“For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.”
– Jessica Savitch

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.”
– Amy Poehler

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.”
– Hillary Clinton

“If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself. And the organization gets pulled up with you.”
– Indra Nooyi

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”
– Dolly Parton

“People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.”
– Michelle Obama

“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.”
– Sara Sampaio

“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.”
– Margaret Fuller

“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
– Gail Devers

Want more inspiration and motivation for work? Then have a look at these inspirational workplace quotes, the short work quotes here and also this one with hilarious work quotes for stress relief.

You feel tired. Maybe unmotivated or bored. We’ve all been there plenty of times.

So in today’s post I want to help you out with that by sharing 130 of the most encouraging, funny, positive and inspirational workplace quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to give you a jolt of positive energy on a tired morning or an unmotivated afternoon. Something to give you a good laugh to help release a bit of stress.

And maybe something to share with family and co-workers to raise their spirits too.

Inspirational Workplace Quotes for a Boost of Energy

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

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

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
– Kobe Bryant

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
– Ray Kroc

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
– Steve Jobs

“The harder I work the more I live.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
– Simon Sinek

“Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.”
– Robin S. Sharma

Short and Inspirational Workplace Quotes and Sayings

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

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

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
– Ralph Marston

“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
– Richard Bach

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Impossible is just an opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford

“Done is better than perfect.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”
– Helen Hayes

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

Funny Workplace Quotes for Stress Relief

“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

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
– Bertrand Russell

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.”
– Stanley J. Randall

“Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.”
– Michel Tournier

“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”
– Claude McDonald

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
– John Gotti

“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock this afternoon.”
– Henny Youngman

“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Tom Sachs

“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin

“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

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
– Douglas Adams

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

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.”
– Leslie Nielsen

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying.”
– Rita Rudner

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

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

Inspirational Workplace Quotes for Renewed Motivation and Focus

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
– Charles R. Swindoll

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne Johnson

“Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”
– Eric Thomas

“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.”
– Wayne Dyer

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
– Steve Jobs

“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
– Carrie Fisher

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, ‘I must be growing,’ and continue moving forward.”
– T. Harv Eker

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
– Arianna Huffington

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”
– Stephen Hawking

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
– M. Scott Peck

Inspirational Workplace Quotes for Teamwork and Positive Vibes

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.”
– Amy Poehler

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– Michael Jordan

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
– Henry Ford

“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
– Steve Jobs

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
– Patrick Lencioni

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
– H.E. Luccock

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
– Napoleon Hill

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”
– Margaret Carty

“It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman

“Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.”
– Robert Schuller

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
– Ken Blanchard

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
– Virginia Burden

Encouraging Workplace Quotes to Help You Reach Your Goals and Dreams

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Nelson Mandela

“You can’t just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give ’em wings, arms, legs… whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.”
– Dolly Parton

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
– Malala Yousafzai

“There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”
– Michelle Obama

“The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.”
– Deepika Padukone

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
– Jesse Owens

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”
– Colin Powell

“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
– Estée Lauder

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
– Tony Robbins

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

“If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
– Walter Elliot

“The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress.”
– Dan Waldschmidt

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
– Thomas Edison

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
– Gail Devers

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Want more motivation for work and life? Then have a look at these short work quotes, the hilarious work quotes to help you release stress here and also this one with short success quotes.

With long and sunny days, barbecues with friends and family and with the wonderful permission to do absolutely nothing.

And to help you to make this a happy month I’d like to share 87 of the most witty, positive and funny July quotes.

I hope you’ll find something there to make you and your loved ones laugh, help reduce a bit of stress that may pop up and simply make this a fun and wonderful month.

Funny July Quotes and Sayings for a Happy Summer Month

“July is a blind date with summer.”
– Hal Borland

“July is the month where my ambition goes on vacation and I just hang around in the hammock all day long.”
– Sandra Shea

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent

“July is the month I officially replace all my responsibilities with flip flops and a sleepy attitude.”
– Sarah Kelly

“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”
– Roald Dahl

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett

“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell

“July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.”
– Laura Kasischke

“Then came July like three o’clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.”
– Allie Ray

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen

“But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.”
– Joanna Franklin Bell

“No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.”
– Earl Weaver

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Being a traditionalist, I’m a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I’m already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.”
– John Waters

“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan

“I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created; no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.”
– Michelle Franklin

“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden.”
– Jean Hersey

“Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show – in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.”
– Larry the Cable Guy

“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen

Short, Funny and Inspirational July Quotes

“July is hot afternoons and sultry nights and mornings when it’s a joy just to be alive.”
– Hal Borland

“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!”
– Kenny Chesney

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“JULY – Joy Unlimited Locate You.”
– Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James

“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams

“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer

“Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots, and gillyflowers.”
– Sara Coleridge

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”
– Porgy and Bess

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls

“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee

“Autumn frosts have slain July.”
– Lewis Carroll

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden

“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
– The Beatles

“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
– Everett Dirksen

“It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.”
– Charlotte Eriksson

Hilarious July Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!”
– Chris Pratt

“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July fourth, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
– Erma Bombeck

“I couldn’t tell you my wedding anniversary. Although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a ‘J,’ anyhow. But not January. Um. I think.”
– Claudia Winkleman

“The average vacation is one-tenth playing – nine-tenths paying.”
– Arnold Glasow

“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman

“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
– Taylor Swift

“Heat, ma’am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.”
– Sydney Smith

“Good weather all week, but come the weekend, and the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot, they complain; too cold, they complain; and when it’s just right, they’re watching TV.”
– Rita Rudner

“The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.”
– E. V. Lucas

“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.”
– Frank Tyger

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
– Nora Ephron

“If the first of July be rainy weather, it will rain, more or less, for four weeks together.”
– John Ray

“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
– Erma Bombeck

“It was always the view of my parents… that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
– Ian McEwan

“When Christmas comes in July, I often serve plum pudding pie with hot coffee or tea of chai, while air conditioning’s on high.”
– Patterson Mooney

“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.”
– Marti Healy

Funny and Uplifting July Quotes for Your Letter Board and Instagram

“In July, I run on three things: sunscreen, ice cream and sooner or later the faint hope of a cooling breeze.”
– Sarah Kelly

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
– Kellie Elmore

“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”
– Jimmy Buffett

“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson

“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!”
– Paul Dini

“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
– Debasish Mridha

“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore

“The summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July.”
– Francis Thompson

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han

“My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.”
– Rick Bass

“I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.”
– Terri Guillemets

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“Make use of the sun while it shines.”
– Danish Proverb

Funny 4th of July Quotes

“It’s Fourth of July weekend, or as I call it, ‘Exploding Christmas.'”
– Stephen Colbert

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“All people are born alike. Except Republicans and Democrats.”
– Groucho Marx

“There’s just something about deviled eggs, whether it’s the summer around Fourth of July for a picnic or a big sit-down meal like Christmas or Easter, we always do that.”
– Steve Doocy

“Laughter is America’s most important export.”
– Walt Disney

“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.”
– Bill Vaughan

“You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.”
– Jon Stewart

“When you’re born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.”
– George Carlin

“The truth will set you free, but first it will p**s you off.”
– Gloria Steinem

“I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.”
– James Lafferty

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
– Ronald Reagan

“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it.”
– Stephen Colbert

“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.”
– James G. Blaine

“There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.”
– Dan Harmon

“We all know you can’t have a Fourth of July barbecue without the fixings that go with it.”
– Rachel Hollis

“Americans will put up with anything, provided it doesn’t block traffic.”
– Dan Rather

Want more laughs and inspiration for your summer? Then check out these funny summer quotes, the inspirational summer quotes here and also these ones with summer quotes for kids and uplifting and meaningful end of summer quotes.