160 Happy Friday Quotes to Celebrate The End of the Week

Our latest collection of happy Friday quotes to help you reflect on an amazing week. Enjoy!

There is no day quite like Friday. For many people, Friday is one of the best days because it’s the last day of the workweek of school week.

Friday is great because it’s a day we can reflect on an awesome week that was. It also ushers in the weekend, where we don’t have to worry about work or school.

Most people look forward to the weekend with a smile and excitement. You’ve probably been going to bed early from Monday to Thursday. But on Friday, you get the choice to go to bed at whatever time you want because you do not have to wake up early the next day. 

If you’re among the majority of people who love Fridays, the following Friday quotes are for you. This happy Friday quotes collection will help you reflect on an amazing week and help you start your weekend in the right mood.

Also check out our list of funny birthday quotes and sayings that will make you laugh out loud.

Happy Friday Quotes to Reflect on a Great Week

1. “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 

2. “Friday the 13th is still better than Monday the whatever.” – Unknown

3. “Put your pencils down and close your books. No more teachers, no more school, you are free! Go lay down in the sun or watch a movie. It’s Friday, You deserve a break.” – SayingImages

4. “Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.” – Richard Nelson Bolles

5. “Friday afternoon feels like Heaven.” – El Fuego

6. “For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury.” – John Sununu

7. “Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

8. “Music always sounds better on Friday.” – Lou Brutus

9. “Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.” – Florence Welch

10. “It’s always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves… they tend to spill over…”- Parag Tipnis

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Friday inspirational quotes to put a smile on your face

11. “Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.” – Richard Nelson Bolles

12. “On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.” – Douglas Booth

13. “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

14. “Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.” – Lauren Oliver

15. “Cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend“ – Amy Krouse Rosentha

16. “Friday. The golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend.” – Unknown

17. “If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn’t want me here either.”- James Johnson     

18. “I’ve taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.” – Johann Lamont

19. “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

20. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” – Kate Summers

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Happy Friday quotes that will make you feel good

21. “Why is Monday so far away from Friday but Friday is so close to Monday?” – Unknown

22. “Friday is about hanging out with friends, having fun.” – Rebecca Black

23. “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. Mixel
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Sunday quotes to honor this special day of the week.

24. “When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” – Catherine Pulsifer

25. “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.” – Edmond Mbiakading
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of monday motivation quotes to help you get the week started.

26. “If you see me on Friday, you’ll see different material on Saturday night.” – Kathy Griffin

27. “People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.” – Raimonda.B

28. “Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, will power, and inappropriate humor.” – Nanea Hoffman

29. “There’s just one legitimate synonym for Friday: Boom Shakalaka.” – Unknown

30. “Life is good especially on a Friday.” – Unknown

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31. “Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” – Byron Pulsifer

32. “I challenge you to let every day be a Friday. Give yourself permission to be happy every day.” – Joel Osteen

33. “Life is but a moment. Love those moments each one of them.” – Cheryl Whitsett

34. “It’s Friday morning mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile!” – Napz Cherub Pellazo
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of good vibes quotes about feeling good.

35. “I look forward to Fridays because I know I have spent the week offering encouragement, solace, assistance and good-will to everyone I have met through my journey.” – Byron Pulsifer

36. “This Friday, finish your work and be done
Look forward to the weekend and have some fun!” – Kate Summers

37. “Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got!” – Eric Thomas

38. “Don’t wait all week for Friday so you can enjoy life. Find a job you love so you can enjoy every day of the week.” – Catherine Pulsifer

39. “How do you know it’s Friday? Look at everyone around you counting down the seconds until the weekend starts.” –Unknown

40. “Dear Friday, I am ready for all of the adventures that the weekend promises.” – Unknown

Positive Friday quotes to inspire you

41. “I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you. It’s Friday I’m in love with.”- Unknown
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42. “Friday’s a free day. A woman’s day.” – Neil Gaiman

43. “Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.” – Chrissy Teigen

44. “Weekends welcome warriors for social fun that starts on Friday.” – David Chiles

45. “I know everyday is a gift but where are the receipts for Mondays? I want to return it for another Friday.” –Unknown

46. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” –
Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. “Who cares about Thursday’s happy hour when Friday is upon us?”- Unknown

48. “That which has been promised comes to those who look forward to Friday. These are the achievements made possible through perseverance and focus.” – Byron Pulsifer

49. “Wishes for a Happy Friday, and a happy day for every day of the week.” – Catherine Pulsifer

50. “Friday is like a green light; you speed up until after work and start to slow down once the light turns yellow.” –Unknown

Beautiful Friday quotes celebrating end of the work week

51. “There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” – Tara Brach

52. “Your mindset has a direct impact on how you perform in life as well as the quality of the results you get.” – Ian Wallace Harper

53. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”- Stephen Richards

54. “If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” – Jim Carrey

55. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller

56. “Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.”- Alice Morse Earle

57. “There are no perfect people who can say to the world, ‘I don’t need anybody else.’ We need each other. We were made to work in teams!” – Rick Warren

58. “The first step is you have to say that you can.” – Will Smith

59. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King

60. “The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning

Friday quotes to inspire success

61. “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” – Seneca

62. “No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.” – Wolfgang Riebe

63. “Your life is not static. Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being that you are.” – Oprah Winfrey

64. “Change your way of thinking. Use your energy to accomplish more productive things. The choice is yours and it can be made today!” – Garrett Kingston

65. “If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Finley

66. “Success is a bright sun that obscures and makes ridiculously unimportant all the little shadowy flecks of failure.” – Harold Helfer

67. “Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” – Bonnie Blair

68. “Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron

69. “Positivity always wins…Always.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

70. “How high you fly is derived from how big you think.” – Robin Sharma

Friday quotes about happiness and positivity

71. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu

72. “Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm.” – BYRON PULSIFER

73. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” —Soren Kierkegaard

74. “I know every day is a gift, but where’s the receipt for Mondays? I want to exchange it for another Friday.” – Unknown

75. “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” —Robin Williams

76. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

77. “It’s Friday night. Time to be a hero and rescue some wine trapped in a bottle.” —Anonymous

78. “Thursday doesn’t even count as a day, it’s just the thing that’s blocking Friday.” – Unknown

79. “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” –
Dale Carnegie

80. “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” –Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happy Friday quotes to inspire you

81. “It’s finally Friday, I’m free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend.” —George Jones

82. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

83. “You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.” —Derek Jeter

84. “I haven’t been so excited about Friday since last Friday.” – Unknown

85. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali

86. “I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun.” – HANNA RHOADES

87. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus

88. “Why is Monday so far away from Friday and Friday so bloody close to Monday?” – Unknown

89. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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90. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

Friday inspirational quotes

91. “Think positive and positive things will happen.” – Unknown
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92. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon

93. “Hi Friday, I’ve been looking for you since Monday.” – Unknown

94. “There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.” ― Joyce Rachelle

95. “There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.” – Chris Pine

96. “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.” ― Dr. Seuss

97. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn

98. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

99. “If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.” – Penny Marshall

100. “Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.”― Gordon B. Hinckley

Happy Friday quotes and sayings

101. “Live life to the fullest is not just a saying, it is a lifestyle so be joyful, live every day as if it were your last, and have a larger than life personality.” – Unknown

102. “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson

103. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach

104. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling.” ― Tony DeLiso

105. “Life is all about having a good time.” – Miley Cyrus

106. “The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” – Chuck Palahniuk

107. “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” – Dr. Seuss

108. “I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend.” – Debasish Mridha

109. “Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.” – Eileen Caddy

110. “Without the weekend, where would the week be?” – Anthony T. Hincks

Happy Friday quotes for the best weekend

111. “Follow your hopes and not your fears.” ― Jody Bower

112. “There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

113. “Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right.” ― Harry Morant

114. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ― Abraham Lincoln

115. “I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.” ― Joan Rivers

116. “We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.” ― Bill Watterson

117. “Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.” ― Tim Ferriss

118. “The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.” ― Leo Babauta

119. “Participate in life instead of just watching it pass you by.” ― Lindsey Wonderson

120. “Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.”- Bum Phillips

Happy Friday quotes to brighten your weekend

121. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

122. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn

123. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

124. “Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” – Oliver Goldsmith

125. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton

126. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

127. “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” – Woody Allen

128. “You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.”
– Kate Morton

129. “We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” – William James

130. “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
– Bryan Stevenson

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131. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – 14th Dalai Lama

132. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani

133. “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Robert Anthony

134. “Don’t stop until you’re proud.” – Unknown

135. “Be positive. Stay happy and don’t let the negativity of the world get you down.” ― Germany Kent

136. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”– Maya Angelou

137. “Be happy with what have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” – William E. Gladstone

138. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”– Zora Neale Hurston

139. “Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” – Walt Whitman

140. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”– Philip Pullman

Happy Friday quotes that will feel you with positivity

141. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

142. “Friday can be a hard day especially if you have not followed through on your commitments.” – Byron Pulsifer

143. “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley

144. “Friday is a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard.“ – Rico

145. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain

146. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard

147. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” –
Epictetus

148. “Feed your soul and mind with positivity for it will bear fruit to your life” – Shara

149. “Coffee in hand, sparkle in my eye, smile on my face yep, it’s Friday.” – Unknown

150. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

More happy Friday quotes

151. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker

152. “The best career choice is can make is one in which you hate to see Friday come because you love your work.” – Catherine Pulsifer

153. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese

154. “Where does the energy go during a week? It is accumulated and then is spent on Friday.” – Unknown

155. “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” – Seneca

156. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton

157. “A smile is the beauty of the soul.” – Lailah Gifty

158. “Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.” – Richard Branson

159. “Life is beautiful especially on Friday!” – Unknown

160. “Every day is a good day, if you don’t believe me, just try missing one of them.” – Zig Ziglar

Which of these happy Friday quotes was your favorite?

We all enjoy the feeling we get when Friday comes around; especially after having a fruitful week at work or at school.

Friday also brings a feeling of freedom because the weekend is here, where we get time to spend with our loved ones and unwind from all work-related activities. So hopefully, these “happy Friday quotes” will help you end the week on the right note.

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