TGIF! If you’re reading this, you’ve either officially made it to the last day of the work week, or you’re wishing you did. Either way, you’re in luck. To bid you a happy Friday and get you motivated to finish out the week strong (even if you’re still stuck on Monday), we’ve rounded up a list of happy Friday quotes to get you going. These inspirational end-of-week sayings are all about feeling the good vibes, getting ready for that well-deserved weekend, and thanking yourself for a job well done. You’ve made it (or almost made it) to the day that’s dubbed the “superhero of the work week” and from here on out, it’s smooth sailing. Happiness is a day called Friday. Here’s your cue to enjoy it.
Funny Friday Quotes
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"On Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, will power, and inappropriate humor."
— Nanea Hoffman
"I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend."
— Debasish Mridha
"Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing."
— Florence Welch
“If you’ve got some news that you don’t want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon.”
— David Gergen
“I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun.”
— Hanna Rhoades
"If you must have the motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday."
— Noel Coward
"Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest."
— D.S. Mixell
"Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard."
— Rico
“I know each day is a gift, but where’s the receipt for Mondays? I want to exchange it for another Friday"
– Unknown
"It’s 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?"
— Amy Neftzger
I haven’t been so excited about Friday since last Friday.
— Unknown
"Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired."
– Mark Twain
"Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon."
— Richard Nelson Bolles
"If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn’t want me here either.”
— James Johnson
"Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two-day break from it."
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— Robert Black
Happy Friday Quotes
Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.
— S. O’Sade
"Friday afternoon feels like heaven…"
— El Fuego
"You know you’re doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights."
— Donny Deutsch
"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom."
— Lauren Oliver
"Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week. Well done."
— Byron Pulsifer
"Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night."
— Chrissy Teigen
"Weekends welcome warriors for social fun that starts on Friday."
— David Chiles
“It’s Friday. Be fierce.”
— Unknown
“Happy Friday you beautiful human.”
— J.YORK
"The best career choice is can make is one in which you hate to see Friday come because you love your work."
— Catherine Pulsifer
"Music always sounds better on Friday."
— Lou Brutus
“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesdays gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you, it’s Friday I’m in love.”
— The Cure
"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!”
– Kate Summers
“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.”
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– Edmond Mbiakading
Friday Inspirational Quotes
"It always seems impossible until it’s done."
— Nelson Mandela
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
– Rumi
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank
"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."
— Jim Rohn
Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
— Kevyn Aucoin
"At the end of each day write down on a calendar the best thing that happened to you that day."
— Brenda Shoshann
"I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity."
— Maya Angelou
"Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday."
— Ernie Els
"People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.”
– Raimonda.B
"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
– John Shirley
"Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm."
– Byron Pulsifer
"I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit."
– Helen Mirren
"Life begins on Friday night."
– Unknown
“Focus on the positives and be grateful.”
–Katrina Bowden
"The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pretend like it’s the weekend, … We could pretend it all the time.
– Jack Johnson
"I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well."
– Jimmy Bennett
"I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel."
– Audrey Hepburn
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll see further.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
–Michael Jordan
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”
—Maya Angelou
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