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Best Work Friends Quotes To Get You Through The Day

Check out today’s work friends quotes and messages to share with your colleagues at the office.

Whether you need a boost of motivation or just want to lighten up the mood, these quotes and messages are sure to add some fun and positivity to your workday.

Having great work friends can make all the difference in how you feel while at your job.

From providing support and camaraderie to sharing inspiring words of encouragement, having positive relationships with your colleagues is essential for a successful career.

To help foster these meaningful connections, we’ve compiled some of the best “work friends quotes” and messages that are sure to bring joy into any workplace.

These uplifting words will motivate you to be a better employee and inspire others around you!

Best work friends quotes to enjoy the work day

1. “A truly great coworker is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget!”

2. “It’s amazing how ‘work friends’ can turn into people you genuinely can’t get through life without.” – Carly Aird

3. “When you like the people you work with, you never want to miss a day of work.”

4. “Work made us colleagues but our potty mouths and inappropriate conversations made us friends.” 

5. “It’s like a dream job to work with your friends.” – Pell James

6. “The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.” – Michael Scott

7. “When compared to those who don’t, employees who have best friends at work identify significantly higher levels of healthy stress management.”

8. “Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.” – Robert Greene

9. “Things are never quite scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson

10. “Work friends are irreplaceable because no bond is stronger than having to go through the same crap for 8 hours every single day.” 

11. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Charles Darwin

12. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle

13. “A better way to make your work easier is to grow good friendship with hard work.” 

14. “We have to remember what’s important in life. Friends, waffles, and work. Or waffles, friends, and work. But work has to come third.” – Leslie Knope

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15. “Having a friend at work will make you hate your job less.” 

16. “Good luck finding better coworkers than us.” 

17. “Getting any work done is difficult when your co-workers are so friggin awesome.” 

18. “Great colleagues are those who make work seem like play.”

19. “Less like a colleague, more like a friend.”

20. “Alone we are smart. Together we are awesome.”

21. “Good colleagues are those who know that WE is more powerful than ME.” 

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

23. “At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.” – Daniel Nathans

24. “One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.” – Mario J. Molina

25. “For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.” – Ruben Neves

26. “My peers and colleagues inspire me.” – Robin Chase

27. “I pride myself on respecting my colleagues.” – Stephen A. Smith

28. “To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.” – Ricardo Salinas Pliego

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29. “It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

30. “No man goes before his time, unless the boss leaves early.” – Groucho Marx

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31. “If you think your boss is stupid, remember; you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” – John Gotti

32. “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates

33. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde

34. “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance.” – Edgar Bergen

35. “Most people work just hard enough to not get fired and get paid just enough money to not quit.” – George Carlin

36. “Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale

37. “I work so I can afford the amount of alcohol required to continue going to work.” 

38. “Nothing brightens up a room like your absence.” 

39. “You don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it sure helps.” 

40. “Being my colleague is the only gift you need.” 

41. “If we’re a dream team, why don’t we get to take naps at work.” 

42. “I wish we worked together so we could hate the same coworkers.” 

Work friend quotes to bring positivity to your day

43. “I don’t have time to worry about who doesn’t like me… I’m too busy loving my awesome coworkers.” 

44. “The only way to survive this workday is by relying on the power of friendship.”

45. “Life is too short to spend it with people who don’t value your friendship. Choose your colleagues wisely.”

46. “The best part of the job is having great friends as co-workers.” – Steve Jobs

47. “Good colleagues make work more fun than any other activity in life.” – Jack Welch

48. “I just realize that I have the best colleagues in the entire world… and I’m very fortunate.” – Anonymous

49. “My colleagues are like a family… and that’s why it’s so hard to come to work.”

50. “It doesn’t matter if the job is tough or easy, as long as you have amazing colleagues who support you along the way.”

51. “True colleagues don’t just work together, they make memories too.”

52. “My colleagues are my heroes and I’m so thankful for them every day.”

53. “A great way to succeed in life is by having brilliant colleagues who motivate you to do your best.”

54. “My colleagues have taught me so much more than any book could ever teach me.”

Final thoughts

Having great colleagues can make a huge difference in your work experience.

A good team of colleagues will support each other, have fun together and help each other succeed.

Whether it’s through hard work or humor, being surrounded by positive and inspiring people is a key factor to achieving success in the workplace.

So take some time to appreciate your colleagues and thank them for the wonderful moments you’ve shared together.

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