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Team Building Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old team building quotes, team building sayings, and team building proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Communication is the key to all relationships.

It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about personal or professional relationships here – no one can do without effective communication.

In order to build better relationship with your friends, family, clients or employees you must hone your communication skills.

Team communication in particular is important to master. For a team to function effectively, there must be open channels of communication.

In this article we’ve put together some of the best inspirational team communication quotes to inspire your team to have better conversations.

Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller

In almost any team that’s bigger than a few people, there is someone who prefers to work alone and have as little interaction with others as possible. This is fine as long as all the committed work as a team gets done. However, active participation from everybody spurs ideas and resources (team members effort) can be used more efficiently and therefore things move faster.

In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.
- Mark Sanborn

#1 rule of team communication is that everybody should be able to voice their thoughts and ideas. When you feel like some of your team members aren’t contributing enough to the discussions, then try to understand the real reason behind this and possibly solve it. Collectively discussing ideas always brings more on the table than doing it solo.

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

There’s nothing better than having your team on the same page and moving towards the same goal. That’s why we suggest keeping meetings short, concrete and frequent.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
- Babe Ruth

We see this a lot. People have their own preferences and some group of people and departments like to handle communication on their own terms. Often, e-mail is used for communication across teams. Fleep is built to help you manage all your team chats and cross-team conversations on one platform so that you could play together and play good.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
- Peter F. Drucker

And not only hear. Only a small percentage of what we say is received via our voices. Nonverbal communication is the single most powerful form of communication.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Hopefully, every team-leader has had these moments where everything is moving. The wheels are turning and progress is being made. Getting people more effective is through self-motivation. Getting things done fast and off your tasklist is definitely satisfying and motivating for lots of people. This can only happen when information moves fast and between the right people. That’s something we aim to achieve with our collaboration software.

Communicate in a respectful manner – don’t just tell your team members what you want, but explain to them why.
- Jeffrey Morales

Having a sense of purpose in your actions is important. You’ll always come off as someone good to work with when you let people know your motives.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- Plato

One of the most powerful skills to master as a team player is to know when is not the time to talk about your dog or iterate thoughts of others just because sake of talking. We’ve all been to one of these meetings where someone just keeps talking about something that was covered already. Be wiser, listen carefully and respect the time of your team members. Complement each other, don’t compete for attention.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
- George Bernard Shaw

Never assume people understand you the way you convey your ideas. This can be especially harmful in text-based environment, where there’s more room for interpretation. Additionally, if we’re talking about text-based group conversations, we cannot assume that everybody understood the message the same. If you don’t get a response to your idea, ask for feedback or try break it down to smaller pieces.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you now.
- Jim Rohn

We, humans often think with our emotions and feelings. That’s not a bad thing at all. If we speak with passion and great enthusiasm, we inspired others to follow. Having enthusiasm is contagious and gets your team going faster.

There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.
- Christopher Morley

Everybody has their own style, but nothing beats being respectful for your peers. Try to be someone who adds value to the conversations and not someone who grabs the attention.

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work – discovery, organization, communication – so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
- Larry Page

Well, the founder of Google sure knows what he’s talking about. Technology is a wonderful helper to make our lives more simpler. If you’re not using any project management and/or collaboration software for daily conversations a task management – you’re missing out.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
- Emma Thompson

Businesses and teams are like families. They need to co-exist, get along and generate outcome (in business it’s new products, revenue, campaigns etc). The closer together they work, the higher is the chance of success. That means having fluid conversations.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
- Anthony Robbins

We all come from different beliefs and have different perceptions. Therefore the way we send and receive information varies greatly.

We hope that these team communication and motivational quotes will inspire your team as well it has others. If you want to increase the productivity of your team, consider signing up for Fleep – it’s free to use for as long as you want.

Further Reading:

Need some powerful teamwork quotes to inspire and motivate your team?

Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

This article contains 90 motivational teamwork quotes to inspire your team to strive for greatness. 

Our selection of team quotes and sayings cover the following aspects –

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We’ll also give you 10 actionable tips that you can employ to get the best out of your workforce. By the end of this article, you’ll have a selection of team quotes and tactics to create a highly motivated team that’s designed for success!

Motivational Quotes About Teamwork

1. “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.”

Helen Keller – American Author, Activist, and Lecturer

1. “Individual commitment to a group effort: That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

Vince Lombardi – Former NFL Player and Coach

1. “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

Ken Blanchard – American Author

1. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

Michael Jordan – American Basketball Player

1. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Andrew Carnegie – Business Magnate and Philanthropist

1. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”

H.E. Luccock – American Professor and Author

1. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”

James Cash Penney – American Entrepreneur

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

Henry Ford – Founder of Ford Motor Company

1. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.”

Mark Sanborn – Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur

1. “A group becomes teammates when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.”

Norman Shidle – Author

1. “It takes two flints to make a fire.”

Louisa May Alcott – American Novelist and Poet

1. “What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – American Basketball Player

1. “The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”

Margaret Carty – American Politician

1. Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey – American Author and Educator

1. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.”

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha – Author

1. A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has

Margaret Mead – American Cultural Anthropologist

1. “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

John Wooden – American Basketball Player and Coach

1. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”

Patrick Lencioni – American Author

1. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

Phil Jackson – American Baseball Player and Coach

1. “A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!”

Bonnie Edelstein – American Actress and Playwright

1. “Learning, without any opportunities to share what we’ve learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won’t do it as well.”

Mike Schmoker – Author

1. “The ratio of ‘We’s’ to ‘I’s’ is the best indicator of the development of a team.”

Lewis B. Ergen – American Musician

1. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.”

Franklin D Roosevelt – 32nd President of the United States

1. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

Ryunosuke Satoro – Japanese Writer

1. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”

Babe Ruth – American Baseball Player

1. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” 

Reid Hoffman – American Entrepreneur and Author

Inspirational Quotes About Building A Successful Team and Business

1. “Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.”

Mark Zuckerberg – Founder and CEO of Facebook

1. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

Henry Ford – Founder of Ford Motor Company

1. “There is little success where there is little laughter.”

Andrew Carnegie – Business Magnate and Philanthropist

1. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.“

Lee Iacocca – American Automobile Executive

1. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”

Author Unknown

1. “I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”

Steve Jobs – Founder and CEO of Apple

1. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”  

John Quincy Adams – 6th President of the United States

1. “In the end, a great leader is only known by the impact he or she has on others.”

Jim Stovall – American Author

1. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

Richard Branson – Founder of Virgin Group

1. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

Henry David Thoreau – American Philosopher and Poet

1. “That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”

Steve Jobs – Founder and CEO of Apple

1. “If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.”

Jeff Bezos – Founder and CEO of Amazon

1. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”

David Bly – US Politician

1. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

Vidal Sassoon – British-American Hairstylist and Entrepreneur

Inspirational Quotes About Pushing Yourself

1. “When you wake up in the morning, you have two choices: go back to sleep, or wake up and chase those dreams.”

Author Unknown

1. “An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.”

Reid Hoffman – Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, and Author

1. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps, you could be one of the exceptions.”

Steve Case –  American Entrepreneur

1. “If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you made.”

Iyanla Vanzant – American Inspirational Speaker

1. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

Vince Lombardi – Former NFL Player and Green Bay Packers Football Coach

1. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”

George Shinn – American Businessman

1. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

Robert Kiyosaki – American Businessman and Author

1. “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your personal goals, then it’s moving you away from your personal goals.” 

Brian Tracy – Canadian-American Motivational Speaker

1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Andre Gide – French Author and Nobel Literature Winner

1. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of The United States

1. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world. Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

Ray Goforth – Union Leader

1. “There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”

Mark Twain – American Author

1. “Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”  

Steve Jobs – Founder and CEO of Apple

1. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”  

Ralph Waldo Emerson – American Philosopher and Poet

1. There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing it anyway.

Mark Burnett – British Television and Film Producer

1. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

Lee Iacocca – American Automobile Executive

1. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”

Dalai Lama

1. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson – American Philosopher and Poet

1. “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”  

Napoleon Hill – American Author

1. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

Jim Rohn – American Entrepreneur and Author

1. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.”

Dr. Henry Link – Clinical Psychologist

1. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”

David Bly – US Politician

1. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

Leonardo da Vinci – Italian Inventor, Philosopher, Artist, and Mathematician

1. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

Steve Jobs – Founder and CEO of Apple

Motivational Quotes About Persistence

1. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

Andy Rooney – American Radio and Television Personality

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

Robert Collier – American Self-Help Author

1. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Albert Einstein – Theoretical Physicist, Discovered Theory of Relativity

1. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

Booker T Washington – American Author and Orator

1. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

Warren Buffett – American Investor and Philanthropist

1. “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

Isaac Newton – British Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer

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

Earl Nightingale – American Radio Speaker and Author

Motivational Quotes About Overcoming Failure

1. “Failure is just a direct result of a collapse in self-discipline to do little things every day.”

Jeb Blount – Author and Motivational Speaker

1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Thomas Edison – American Inventor

1. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of The United States

1. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

Bill Gates – Founder and CEO of Microsoft

1. “A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.”

Orrin Woodward – American Author

1. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill – Former Prime Minister of England

1. “You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems that you solve.”

Elon Musk – CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

1. “Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying.

Chris Bradford – British Author and Martial Artist

1. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

Henry Ford – Founder of Ford Motor Company

1. “Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.”

Tom Robbins – American Novelist

1. “In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.”

Robert Kiyosaki – American Businessman and Author

1. “It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Herman Melville – American Novelist

Inspirational Quotes About Personal Growth and Excellence

1. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson – American Philosopher and Poet

1. “When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” 

Lao Tzu – Ancient Chinese Philosopher and Writer

1. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

Lou Holtz – Former NFL Player and Coach

1. “The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.”

Terry Orlick – American Author and Motivational Speaker

1. “When all is said and done and we’ve completed this journey we call life, what will matter most is not what we achieve — but rather who we have become.”

Author Unknown

1. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

Jim Rohn – American Entrepreneur, Author, and Motivational Speaker

1. “Too little confidence and you’re unable to act. Too much confidence and you’re unable to hear.”

John Maeda – American Designer

10 Actionable Tips To Boost Teamwork

Motivational quotes to inspire your teammates are a great way to galvanize the troops, but they aren’t enough.

No team has ever been built on a proverb or a selection of team quotes and sayings.

What you need are actionable changes to your workplace that foster effective teamwork andcollaboration. Once you have a team-friendly workplace, you can use quotes about teamwork to maintain those levels of productivity. Here are 10 tips to create a dream work environment that’s tailor-made for effective teamwork:

1. Hire The Right People For The Right Roles

Poor communication isn’t the biggest roadblock to creating a dream workspace for team building. The biggest deterrents to effective teamwork are skill gaps.

You could have teammates that love working alongside each other, but talent wins in the end. As long as they’re in roles that don’t suit them, you’re going nowhere.

No amount of camaraderie is going to help an employee succeed in a role they’re not built for. Having the wrong employees in the wrong roles will drastically slow down your team’s progress. This will lead to widespread resentment and frustration among your employees. 

Not the ingredients you want when building a successful team, right? 

2. Use Top-Notch Project Management Software

A good project management tool can facilitate effective teamwork in your organization. It’ll give your organization the structure it needs to support a collaborative effort on all your projects.

With ClickUp – a free project management tool used by Nike, Airbnb and Google, you’ll have everything you need for effective teamwork.

ClickUp has everything you expect in a productivity tool: 

• Projects, tasks, subtasks 
• Due dates, priorities 
• Reminders & custom notifications 
• Kanban & list views
• Time tracking and much more.

But that’s not all. ClickUp also gives you these powerful collaboration features:

1. A powerful commenting system that helps your team collaborate over projects. ClickUp comments support text, images, videos and files to.
2. Assigned comments to let you immediately assign and notify someone of a task they have to do.
3. ClickUp lets you add multiple assignees to a task. This is helpful when you’re handling tasks that need multiple people working together.
4. ClickUp’s In-built Mind Maps help your team brainstorm ideas and strategies together.
5. Real-time collaboration detection over projects that allows your team members to actively collaborate even if they’re not physically in the same space.

With ClickUp, you’ll have all the features you need for inspirational teamwork to take center stage at your company. Why not sign up today and take it for a spin?

3. Take Time To Get To Know Them Personally

A team is far more than just a group of people working independently. A good team of people is a collective unit that can trust and respect one another. And the only way to truly gain someone’s trust and respect is to get to know them personally.

Treating a group of people as cogs in a machine will only get you so far. It’s only when you start looking at them as human beings, will you take your team to the next level. 

It’s a great way to build a strong relationship with each employee and make them feel valued as a team member.

4. Use Each Employee’s Strengths and Weaknesses To Your Advantage

Once you know an employee personally, you’ll have a better idea of their talent and individual strengths and weaknesses. As each employee brings something unique to the table, it’s up to you to decide how to get those skills working together. 

Organize your team and company work processes to get the best out of each employee’s strengths and weaknesses. Once you’ve mastered this, your team will be working together like a well-oiled machine.

5. Create A Common Long-Term Job Goal

You need to establish clear-cut, long-term company and job goals. Without this, it’s impossible to keep all your employees on the same page. 

The best time to introduce these job goals would be during your hiring process or as part of their onboarding activities. Communicating this vision at the start is a great way for an employee to quickly adjust their personal goals to what’s expected at the company. 

This ensures that everyone is working on the same wavelength, which makes it easier to work alongside each other. As they’re all striving towards the same company goal, it’s easier for them to collaborate and accomplish things together.

6. Define Roles

While creating a common goal is important, good leadership needs to establish a set of employee roles too. This will dictate the path they take to chase your long-term vision. 

Without a clear-cut reporting structure, it’ll be impossible for your team to get anything done. 

If there’s a company work problem: 

• Who will your team turn to? 
• Who’s in charge of what? 
• Who makes the calls?

Answering these questions ensures that your team’s progress won’t come to a grinding halt every time an issue pops up. Your team will know exactly what to do and can steer ahead easily.

7. Encourage Feedback and Communication

Your team needs to have the confidence and comfort to voice their opinions and ideas. You must create a work environment that encourages feedback and allows people to express themselves in a safe, respectful atmosphere.

Once your employees feel comfortable expressing themselves, they’ll find it far easier to work together as a great team. 

Another good tip is to specify the communications policy of a company during the hiring process. This should include the company’s preferred mediums of communication along with a redressal system. This gives them a reference point on how to channel their views and ideas in a way that aligns with the company’s preferences. 

8. Use Brainstorming As A Team Building Exercise

Brainstorming sessions are the perfect place for leadership to encourage teamwork and communication. Pay special attention to team members who have a hard time speaking up and voicing themselves. This is the perfect platform for them to build their confidence and to get them actively contributing.

Treat every idea in a brainstorming session with respect and never shoot anything down without a clear reason. Remember, you’re using this to encourage employees to speak up – dismissing their contributions without a valid reason is the quickest way to alienate them. 

When done right, a brainstorming session is a great team building activity to get your employees actively involved in a project and make them feel valued in your company. The more invested they are in a project – the better they’ll perform!

9. Don’t Limit Yourself To The Office

Building an open and inclusive workplace is an important part of fostering effective teamwork. However, it’s often not enough.

Why?

Because at the end of the day, it’s still a workplace. It’s uncommon for employees to let their guard down and get comfortable in a space they associate with work.

That’s why an out-of-the-office game or trip should be a core part of your team building strategy. Once you’re out of the office, your employees can loosen up and really get to know each other as common people. They can bond over things unrelated to work and forge a connection that’s far stronger than your usual group of people working together. 

10. Include A Teamwork Component In Performance Reviews

Including a teamwork component in your performance reviews is a good way to show your employees that you take this seriously. It lets them know that teamwork and collaboration are key parts of their growth in your company. 

Go over an employee’s teamwork contributions during their performance review and outline their strengths and areas of improvement. This gives them a teamwork-related target that they can work toward in the future. 

Conclusion

Never underestimate the power of teamwork. It has the capacity to be adetermining factor in whether your business succeeds or not. It’s important for leadership to create a dream work atmosphere that encourages healthy teamwork and collaboration. 

With that in place, use these teamwork quotes and sayings as a catalyst to motivate your team members and keep them committed to excellence. 

In the meantime, why not sign up for ClickUp and harness its team building potential for your team?

Zack Martin
Client Success Champion

Laughter is the best medicine in life, and these funny inspirational quotes and sayings are guaranteed to brighten your day by putting a smile on your face.

No one can ever laugh too much, and these funny quotes will inspire you to smile bigger and laugh harder.

As they say, “laughter is the best form of medicine”.

While the doctor might not prescribe it, the ability to find humor in our situation is key for maintaining of sanity, patience, and peace of mind.

Believing in our future doesn’t have to be scary, and change doesn’t have to be painful.

You are allowed to have fun along the way!

Don’t hesitate to take it easy at times.

Smile at strangers, laugh at yourself, and know that you’re free to start over.

I received a request to post some funny inspirational quotes, so I went for it.

These funny inspirational quotes are pretty tame (around 5 – 10 schools have made me aware that they use my blog as a quote resource), but they will surely make you smile!

On our journey towards personal greatness, it’s important that we laugh at our setbacks, slip-ups, and blunders.

Why? That’s because plenty more are on the way.

To help you stay focused and stay loose, below is our collection of funny inspirational quotes, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Have fun reading!

Funny inspirational quotes for work and life

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

2.) “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.” – Steven Wright

3.) “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

4.) “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain

5.) “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra 

6.) “There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.) “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous.” – Robert Benchley

8.) “Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.” – Langston Coleman

9.) “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler

10.) “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles Schulz

Funny inspirational quotes about life that will motivate you

11.) “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” – Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes

12.) “Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget tossing in the lifeboats.” – Voltaire

13.) “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” – Sydney Harris

14.) “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

15.) “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

16.) “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw

17.) “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain

18.) “Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.” – Billie Burke

19.) “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” – Maureen Dowd

20.) “It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Funny inspirational quotes about life and career

21.) “The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm.” – Malcolm Forbes

22.) “I cannot afford to waste my time making money.” – Louis Agassiz

23.) “Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” – Robert Bloch

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

25.) “The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein

26.) “Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”  – Oscar Wilde

27.) “When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration.” – Robert Bresson

28.) “My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”  – Dave Barry

29.) “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – A.A. Milne