110 Sunday Quotes for a Pleasant and Relaxed Day

Sunday is arrived.

It’s time to rest. Recharge. Spend some time with loved ones.

Maybe get a few jobs around the house done before the weekend is through. And maybe do a little of preparation before the work week starts.

Therefore in today’s article I’d like to assist you with that by providing 110 of the greatest and most motivating Sunday quotations.

I hope you'll find something cheerful here to give you a jolt of energy and help you discover a positive outlook.


And if you want even more inspiration for the next week then check out this article with quotations about Monday motivation and this one loaded with Tuesday quotes.

Inspiring Sunday Quotes
“Sometimes I have liked the quiet of an average Sunday. It is like standing in a freshly planted garden after a warm shower. You can sense the quiet and unseen life.”
— Marilynne Robinson

“There's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a nice book.”
— Chris Klein

“If your full week ahead seems daunting then break it down into what you need to accomplish each day. And then split the first of those days into what you need to get done each hour.”
– John Rask

“Want to make this Sunday awesome? That’s in your hands and what actions you do or do not take. So own this day and what you want to create it to be.”
– Unknown

“Do not squander a single Sunday. If you don't squander Sundays, you will be less inclined to waste Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.”
— Matthew Kelly

“On a wet Sunday afternoon I prefer to spend my time with a nice book, a cup of tea and I also like to get simply a load of dull jobs done so I don’t have to worry about them throughout the week ahead.”
— Jill Jones

“Happy Sunday to you and your family. Make this a day of thankfulness by thinking of 3 things you are glad for in your life today and 3 things you are grateful for about the people near to you.
— Tom Davis


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Sunday Quotations 1
“Take the time to do what you love to do this weekend.”
— Catherine Pulsifer

“Just an average Sunday with my kids is the greatest way to rejuvenate and prepare me for Monday morning.”
– Allison James

“Ah, Sunday, the day of rest… now that’s something to be grateful for!”
— Aaron P. Taylor

“Decide to do modest acts of kindness throughout this day to make it a joyous Sunday for the people in your life.”
– Unknown

“Sunday was always the greatest of days for being the person you had planned to be, but were not, for one reason or another.”
— Jesse Ball

“Think of one modest and nice action you can do today to turn this into a good Sunday for someone in your life. And transform that modest notion into reality!”
– Unknown

“Bring the Sunday spirit to your own loved ones via compassion, through listening more and by sharing the pleasant sentiments (since they are contagious!)”
— Jill Anderton

Uplifting and Cheerful Sunday Quotes
Sunday Quotations 2
“Happiness is a nice bath on a Sunday afternoon.”
— A.D. Posey

“Sunday clears away the rust of the entire week.”
— Joseph Addison

“No matter rain or sun, you can make today a pleasant, fortunate Sunday via your own attitude and outlook.”
— Anna Williams

“Sunday! A family day with a dash of weekend tossed in for good measure.”
— Anthony T. Hincks

“Is there any place on Earth that smells better than a laundromat? It's like a wet Sunday when you don't have to go out from beneath your covers, or like reclining back on the grass your father's just mowed — comfort food for your nose.”
— Jodi Picoult

“Oh darling Sunday, I want to sleep in your arms and have a great day.”
— Santosh Kalwar

“Sunday is the day of the week when we concentrate on rest and reflection. On spending meaningful time with each other. On exercising and on preparation for a strong start on Monday morning.”
— Amy Wilson

“May your Sunday be full of pleasure and laughter.”
— Kate Summers

Sunday Quotations 3
“This weekend don’t worry about Monday, it will arrive soon enough.”
– Robert Rivers

“Sunday brings along memories of childhood when I used to get up to go to church. Then when I would get home there would be something special for breakfast. I miss those days.”
– Quincy Latte

“If I have a Sunday free, I’ll head up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I appreciate are near the water.”
— Parker Stevenson

“When I was a youngster, our family used to watch ‘Bonanza.’ I truly appreciated having a Sunday night TV ritual.”
— Anne Lamott

“My Sunday is a leisure day in which I urge myself to ignore the duties of my workdays and connect honestly with my friends and loved ones.”’ \s– Srinivas Mishra

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Insightful Sunday Quotes
“Millions crave for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a gloomy Sunday afternoon.”
— Susan Ertz

“Sunday is the golden clasp that holds together the volume of the week.”
— Henry Wadsworth

“Don't judge men's riches or holiness by their Sunday appearance.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“Poetry is reality in its Sunday clothes.”
— Joseph Roux

“Experience life in all imaginable ways — \sgood-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, \ssummer-winter. Explore all the dualities.
Don't be frightened of experience, because \sthe more experience you have, the more \smature you become.”
– Osho

“Without Sunday, I wouldn't know when to put on the brakes of a rushing life.”
— Byron Pulsifer

”The sense of Sunday is the same everywhere, weighty, sad, standing still.”
— Jean Rhys

“Do not let Sunday be snatched from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.”
— Albert Schweitzer

“A gorgeous Sunday morning gives gifts to everyone who is grounded in this present – not the future nor past – and keeps their thoughts open to tiny miracles and opportunities.”
— Rip Miller

“Live forgiveness every day rather than simply talking about it on Sunday.”
— Wayne Dyer

“Sunday is the center of our civilisation, devoted to thinking and reverence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The city takes a breath on Sunday. With everything that’s lost with the search of what’s next, I pray we don’t lose that.”
— Hawksley Workman

Sunday Quotes that Help You to Rest and Recharge
“It's a leisurely Sunday morning, when the dreams are floating and sleep is sinking.”
— Dr. Sreeremya

“I try not to work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday evenings, I try to relax down a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.”
— Miley Cyrus

“You cannot have the start of a fruitful week without a Sunday spent in the peacefulness of the day.”
— Byron Pulsifer

“I have to be alone quite frequently. I'd be pretty content if I spent from Saturday night through Monday morning alone in my flat. That's how I refuel.”
— Audrey Hepburn

“The purpose of Sunday is to leave my house as little as possible.”
— Mark Morris

“After a week of the confined turmoil that is my work, I need some lonely jogging time. On Sundays, I can relax and reconnect with the natural world.”
— Linda Jones

“Why is Sunday a day of rest? Because it is different from all the rest.”
— Byron Pulsifer

Sunday is a day to rejuvenate and replenish the fountain of creativity.”
– Unknown

”Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.”
— John Lasseter

“I play basketball on Sundays and I’m a pretty spiritual man; I study a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.”
— Garry Shandling

”You know what Sunday is, it’s a day with a lot of opportunity for naps.”
— Polly Horvath

“I recognize that you may have had a hectic and tough week. So make today a day of letting it go and of relaxing and by doing so you'll make this a recharging Sunday for yourself.”
– Unknown

“She swears slow Sundays were meant for her. It’s the day of the week when she can simply do nothing without not feeling guilty. So she would squander Sundays very regularly and feel delighted doing that.”
— Simone White

If you loved these peaceful Sunday quotes also take a look at these quotes about hanging in there.

Motivational Sunday Quotes for the Upcoming Week
“Sundays are a fantastic day to look at the unlimited possibilities of the week ahead.”
— Bob Saget

“You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my home. I genuinely appreciate it; it's my routine. I demand tidiness, honestly. I have to have things pristine before I can relax.”
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“This Sunday morning is coming for you with a promise of a brand-new beginning in life. Enjoy it and be thankful for this magnificent life!”
– Unknown

“Sunday is the greatest day of the week to prepare for the whole next week. Therefore establish a strategy for your week to make sure that you get the most essential things done and not get lost in meaningless busy work.”
— Elise Green

“Sunday is your greatest day. You know you had a wonderful week. Time to recoup and plan about how you're going crush it next week.”
– Unknown

”This is Sunday, and the question comes, what’ll I start tomorrow?”
— Kurt Vonnegut

“Every Sunday afternoon I spend only 15 minutes to assess what went good or poorly throughout my week and then I see how I can utilize it to make next week even better.”
— Bob Allen

“Spend your balmy afternoons in spring with a hot cup of tea and a notepad and establish ideas for how step by step you may transform all your goals become reality.”
— Rip Miller

“Running in warm rain or having a hot bath on a Sunday clears my thoughts of the last week and helps me prepare for the week ahead. Water is the key for me.”
— Jane Edmonds

“Be in the habit of waking up bright and early on the weekends. Why squander such valuable time in bed?”
– Marilyn Vos Savant

“Sunday is a planning day for me. Well, not the entire day, but I normally spend 15-20 minutes in the evening to set myself up for fast and concentrated start on Monday morning to set the tone for the week and not slide into busy work.”
— Justine Miles

Glorious Sunday Quotes
“Sunday is a time when you sit back and think on all the benefits that you have received. Smile at all the nice things that you are enjoying.”
– Sera Train

“Be receptive to the wonderful Sunday benefits you may experience today. Otherwise you may miss them and not even recognize the fortunate day and lovely Sunday that this was for you.”
– Unknown

“Abundant blessings to your family on this beautiful Sunday morning and may you be blessed with great happiness on this Lord’s Day.”
— Ned Standish

“Sunday morning blessings to you on this great Sunday! Make today count by for example spending quality time with your family or friends or by getting a job you’ve procrastinated on for too long done.”
— Rip Miller

“I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.”
— Joyce Meyer

“This Sunday, listen more than you speak. Smile more than you frown. Give more than you receive. On this day, share the Sunday benefits you desire to receive.”
– Unknown

“Give me a Sunday morning, that’s full of grace, a simple existence and I’ll be alright, here in little town U.S.A.”
— Justin Moore

“Don’t forget to offer gratitude for all the benefits you’ve received on this wonderful Sunday.”
– Unknown

“Sunday, a day of rest decreed by God for our benefit; cherish the day and relax.”
— Byron Pulsifer

“Sunday benefits may arrive in disguises. Sometimes as a struggle that allows you to learn an important lesson or something about yourself.”
– Unknown

“Happy blessed Sunday to you, my sweet and great buddy! May the almighty God shine upon you and may you be rewarded with love, wealth and fewer problems today, this week and in the future year.”
— Anna Lowe

“Sunday is the Lord's Day. Let us find time to be with him.”
- Pope Francis

“Blessings to you, your family and friends. Let’s make today a fantastic Sunday of compassion and love.”
— Cece Jones

Funny Sunday Quotes
“Although I realize that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us believe that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!”
— D.S. Mixell

“Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.”
— Marlene Dietrich

“Sunday is the day when I prepare for the week ahead by drafting impossible To-Do lists and surfing Pinterest for ideas on how to decorate my fictional mansion.”
— Nanea Hoffman

“Most of us spend the first six days of each week spreading wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.”
— Fred Allen

“Sundays tend to be a day when merely I do nothing but visit folks. It's sort of like trick-or-treating.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

“Weekends are a little like rainbows; they seem wonderful from a distance but evaporate when you get up close to them.”
— John Shirley

“Spend some time this weekend on house remodeling; enhance your attitude toward your family.”
— Bo Bennett

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

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something absolutely pointless.”
— Bill Watterson

If you enjoy these hilarious Sunday quotes then also take a look at these keep your head up quotations.

Short Sunday Quotes
“I'm easy like Sunday morning.”
– Commodores

“Sunday nights frequently seem like the weekend is done before it's even begun.”
— Catherine McCormack

“It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.”
– Abbe Pierre

“Sunday is a day of rest.”
— Mark Morris

“Look to appreciation and an optimistic outlook on this fantastic day to construct a delightful Sunday.”
– Unknown

“Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.”
— Elfriede Jelinek

“There aren’t enough days in the weekend.”
— Rod Schmidt

“A fruitful Sunday is the Sunday when you experience and learn something new.”
– Unknown

“The most essential things we speak about on Sundays are topics to which we pay very little attention.”
— Erich Fromm

“Sunday is a relaxation day. It’s wonderful day. It’s family day. And sometimes it’s catchup day for what didn’t get done throughout the week.”
— Ainsley Jones

“Time moves in a peculiar manner on Sundays.”
— Haruki Murakami

Additional Sunday Quotes and Sayings
“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a rainy Sunday evening — the precise moment of all times when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.”
— Jane Austen

”On Sunday mornings, as the dawn blazed into day, swarms of gulls swooped on the uncollected rubbish, hovering and falling in the cold clear light.”
— Edward Conlon

“A Sunday well-spent delivers a week of content.”
— Proverb

“I think God created Boston on a damp Sunday.”
- Raymond Chandler

“I’m obviously not a traditionalist, because a traditionally would be coming to church every Sunday.”
— Oprah Winfrey

“More and more individuals work on Sundays as a result of the competition enforced by a consumption society.”
- Pope Francis

“There are many folks who look on Sunday as a sponge to wash clean the sins of the week.”
— Henry Ward Beecher

“In my home every Sunday, everyone was cleaning the house. There was constantly music, and everyone was dancing, sometimes nude throughout the home. Not hippy, but quite free.”
— Penelope Cruz

”Between Monday and Saturday guys build an audience. On Sunday, they create a congregation.”
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was a Sunday afternoon, damp and cheerless; and a duller sight this world of ours has not to exhibit than a rainy Sunday in London.”
— Thomas de Quincey

“There is always something new to learn and experience each Sunday.”
— Bishop Gerald Causse

“I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t go on my knees to pray, or learn the books of the Bible, I have my own personal way.”
— Tom Waits

“I want there to be no peasant in my realm so destitute that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.”
- Henry IV

“You never know these days. Uninvited visitors may compel you to take an unanticipated excursion to an unfamiliar area; doesn't hurt to be in your Sunday clothes.”
— Anurag Shourie

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