Are you a man looking for a little bit of motivation? Are you the type of person who likes to start the day off with a funny quote or two? If so, you are not alone. Many people rely on quotes from famous people to give them hope, make them laugh, and so much more.
Funny Quotes
A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice. – Bill Cosby
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. – Steve Martin
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. – Mark Twain
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. – Ron White
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. – Bill Cosby
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
Motivational Quotes
Too may people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm Forbes
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry Truman
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes by Famous Professional Athletes
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. – Rogers Hornsby
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses − behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. - Archie Griffen.
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. – Jesse Owens.
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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
Some people think football is a matter of life and death… I can assure them it is much more serious than that. – Bill Shankly.
To be the man, you have to beat the man! – Ric Flair
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner. – Vince Lombardi
Quotes about Women
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work or prison. – Tim Allen
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. – Jim Carrey
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. – George Carlin
Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. – Woody Allen
I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason. – Stanley Baldwin
There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works. – Will Rogers
Some of these quotes will make you laugh. Some of these quotes may make you cry. But one thing will never change: it is quotes like these that will live on forever. If you are a guy, you can relate to these words in one way or the next.
