90 Motivational Saturday Quotes for a Happy Weekend and Life (2024)

You wake up without the alarm clock going off. Without hurrying through your morning routine.

It’s Saturday and your weekend has just begun.

To help you to make the best of this day and your weekend I want to share 90 motivational Saturday quotes that will inspire you and give you some timeless tips from the past few thousands of years on living a happier and more fulfilling life.

So let’s get going with that to give your Saturday a boost of energy, positivity and to get you started on the right foot.

And if you want more tips to help you make this a happy weekend have a look at this post with inner peace quotes or this one filled with quotes on compassion.

Motivational Saturday Quotes

“It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most in those two days. Imagine living a life where every day are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day.”
James A. Murphy

“On Saturday morning, I like to get up early and go out – TV is banned!”
Debra Stephenson

“The word “Saturday” has the word “sat” in it. Make sure you take the time this day to sit and relax.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation.”
Nora Roberts

“I’ve taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I’ve actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful.”
Padmasree Warrior

“Saturday is a day for the spa. Relax, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.”
Ana Monnar

“Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it’s probably because you need the sleep.”
Sophia Bush

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell

“It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.”
Diane Von Furstenberg

“Happy Saturday! ‘Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

“What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week?”
C. S. Lewis

“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

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
Brené Brown

“If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.”
Nicole Ari Parker

“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have plans.”
Mike Birbiglia

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Roy T. Bennett

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John R. Wooden

“Saturday is what gives us a weekend of enjoyment.”
Anthony T. Hincks

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi

“It is the kind of Saturday night that torches your life for a few hours, makes it seem like something is happening.”
Annie Proulx

“Love me like Saturday night, like three glasses of champagne, like the room is spinning, like you’re drunk on my love.”
C.J. Carlyon

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
Zig Ziglar

“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”
Parker Palmer

“I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.”
Chip Gaines

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Oprah

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”
Brian Andreas

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
Sydney J. Harris

If you want more inspirational quotes to help you unstress check this post out.

Inspiring Saturday Morning Quotes

“Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.”
Oprah Winfrey

“I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.”
Barack Obama

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

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
Lemony Snicket

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“Morning not only forgives, it forgets.”
Marty Rubin

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
Thomas S. Monson

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
Dalai Lama

“Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.”
Carrie-Anne Moss

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
Larry King

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
Harvey Mackay

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.”
Victor Hugo

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
Billy Wilder

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha

Happy Saturday Quotes

“Oh, my sweet Saturday, I have been waiting for you for six long days.”
Charmaine J. Forde

“Saturday is the mightiest day of the week. It’s unshakably, overwhelmingly superior. Not only is it a day off of school, but the following day is also a day off, like some kind of Super Saiyan bargain sale.”
Wataru Watari

“My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV, and eating.”
Alan King

“I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, ‘Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.”
Vera Farmiga

“We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday.”
Edward McKendree Bounds

“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
Charmaine J. Forde

“My work is like my vacation, so in a way, every day is like Saturday.”
Ludacris

“One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.”
Jessica Pare

“How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.”
Shel Silverstein

“Different co*cktails for different Saturday nights.”
Drew Barrymore

“Happy Saturday! When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”
Tec*mseh

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx

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

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
Robert Morley

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
Albert Camus

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig

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

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
Andre Maurois

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

“Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.”
Beau Taplin

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
Mary Stuart

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Maxim Gorky

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
William Feather

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

“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.”
Elbert Hubbard

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln

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

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”
Brian Tracy

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”
Buddha

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

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

Funny Saturday Quotes

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

“Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.”
Dan Pearce

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”
Ogden Nash

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

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