80 Fantastic Friday Quotes to End the Work Week | Inspirationfeed (2024)

Last Updated on March 5, 2024

While Monday is the most dreaded day of the week, Friday is the most anticipated day. Friday is fun for everyone because it means the work week is over and the weekend is about to start. This signifies relaxation for some and partying for others.

However people spend their weekends, Friday is universally seen as the best day of the week. Work seems to go faster as you look forward to staying up late, binging on your favorite shows, or dancing the night away with friends without worrying about having to wake up early the next day.

Let’s learn a little bit more about everyone’s favorite day.

Origin of the Word Friday

The word “Friday” gets its roots from several cultures. Like the other days of the seven-day week, a concept that was created by the Babylonians, it was named after gods and celestial beings in various cultures. Friday was named after Frigg or Freya in Germanic culture, while, in Roman culture, it was named after the Goddess of Love, Venus.

Frigg is known in mythology as the wife of the great god Odin. She is clever, intelligent, and renowned for the foresight and ability to discern the future. While not much more is known about her traits or attributes, she is still regarded as one of the most important goddesses in Norse myth.

Venus, on the other hand, is much more popular in history. Friday gets its name from the “Day of Venus” in several forms, such as vendredi in French, venres in Galician, and viernes in Spanish to name a few. Venus is known as the goddess of love, fertility, beauty, desire, and prosperity. Her image is popular throughout art history, and many people still know of her to this day.

As days of the week were most commonly named after deities in the olden days, it makes sense that, even back then, Friday was already associated with a god that people loved and adored.

Everyone Loves Friday!

To this day, Friday remains a favorite day and a popular one in pop culture. A famous movie and a popular American chain of restaurants popularized the phrase “Thank God, it’s Friday” or “Thank goodness, it’s Friday” (TGIF) just to celebrate the end of the week and upcoming weekend.

Famous songs like “Friday, I’m In Love” and “Friday” by The Cure and Rebecca Black, respectively, have become mainstream media hits.

But what is it about Friday that people love so much? When times get difficult and work piles up, Friday represents that proverbial silver lining that rest days are on the horizon.

Friday is special because we had to go through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to get to it. And finally, after braving the stress and deadlines, the weekend is here.

Do you love Friday? Enjoy your fabulous Friday even more with these TGIF quotes:

Beautiful Friday Quotes

1. “Friday afternoon feels like heaven.” – El Fuego

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

3. “It’s Friday morning mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile!” – Napz Cherub Pellazo

4. “It’s Friday! Time to go make stories for Monday.” – Anonymous

5. “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” – O’Sade

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

7. “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.” – Byron Pulsifer

8. “Friday is my second favorite F word. Food is my first.” – Anonymous

9. “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

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

11. “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

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

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

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

15. “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

16. “Life is good especially on a Friday.” – Anonymous

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

18. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is ‘yourer’ than you.” – Dr. Seuss

19. “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

20. “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.” – The Cure

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

22. “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

23. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

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

25. “Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” – Tom Lehrer

26. “Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm.” – Anonymous

27. “It’s time to embrace the crazy beautiful mess that you are because it’s almost the weekend.” – Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

33. “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz

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

35. “I’ll just stay home and eat a lot of gelato and write about how true love is nothing but a myth.” – Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen, Gossip Girl

36. “Let’s sit on a rooftop at 2am and talk about life.” – Anonymous

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

38. “A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.” – Robert M. Gates

39. “The weekends are too short for sleep!” – Bryant A. Loney

40. “Weekends don’t pay as well as weekdays but at least there’s football.” – A. Sachs

41. “Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.” – Bo Bennett

42. “Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?” – Marilyn vos Savant

43. “Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.” – John Shirley

44. “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.” – S. Mixel

45. “I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.” – Vanilla Ice

46. “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

47. “It’s the weekend. Do something that your future self will thank you for.” – Anonymous

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

49. “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

50. “FRIDAY NIGHT! I have a date, with my bed…We’re totally going to sleep together!” – Anonymous

51. “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” – O’Sade

52. “Tonight’s forecast, 99 percent chance of wine.” – Anonymous

53. “Happy Friday! Here’s to all of us who made it through another week of faking adulthood.” – Nanea Hoffman

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

55. “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.” – S. Mixell

56. “Life is beautiful especially on Friday!” – Anonymous

57. “I wanna be your Friday night sweet ride. Summertime sunshine barefoot in the moonlight.” – Anonymous

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

59. “Dear radio stations, please do not play Katy Perry’s ‘Friday Night’ Monday morning at 8 AM during my drive to work.” – Anonymous

60. “Love and Life begins on Fridays.” – Author Unknown

61. “Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.” – Anonymous

62. “May today be the Fridayest Friday that ever Fridayed.” – Anonymous

63. “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

64. “Life is good especially on a Friday.” – Anonymous

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

66. “I am instantly 70 percent nicer after 3pm on Fridays.” – Anonymous

67. “Friday called. She’s on her way and she’s bringing the wine.” – Anonymous

68. “Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” – Bill Watterson

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

70. “Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.” – Anonymous

71. “’I’m so sad it’s Friday. I wish it was Monday already’ said no one in history, ever.” – Anonymous

72. “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

73. “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 pay check.” – Byron Pulsifer

74. “If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” – Noel Coward

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

76. “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

77. “It’s always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves…they tend to spill over.” – Kai Sinclair

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

79. “Dear Monday, I want to break up. I’m seeing Tuesday and dreaming about Friday. Sincerely, it’s not me, it’s you.” – Anonymous

80. “Happy Monday! Or as I like to think of it, pre-pre-pre-pre-Friday!” – Anonymous

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