25 Motivational Posters (Part I)
By Village Mayor • Nov 22nd, 2008 • Category: Funny, Latest Post, The Best of Village of JoyThe intent of motivational posters is to make people achieve more, or to think differently about the things that they may be learning or doing. (wikipedia)
I can’t say they motivate me to be more or less productive but they make me smile. And if you having one of those days glance at these posters and I guarantee they will make you smile too.
Some posters might have “stronger” message then others but it’s not the picture to blame…
Oh, and if you think you can make a better one, go to Despair or BigHugeLabs. Feel free to submit your creations in the comments or send them to us by email.
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Image credit: Simon Davison
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Image credit: rstrawser
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Image credit: SL-INC (AKA: Scott)
Image credit: Simon Davison
Image credit: Simon Davison
Image credit: Simon Davison
Image credit: Starliquid.com - Greg
In case you missed it: go to Despair or BigHugeLabs to make your own motivational poster. Feel free to submit your creations in the comments or send them to us by email.
Part II here: 25 Motivational Posters (Part II)
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June 24th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Great pics, love em!
June 24th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Haha these are so funny! Big ups to the creators of these posters, they are hilarious
May 28th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
does anyone else hate it when you’re reading comments thinking you were reading the first comment at the top only to find halfway down the page it was the last comment made? this outta teach me to look at dates first.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
[...] are really glad to present you another collection of motivational posters (you can see part I here: 25 Motivational Posters (Part I)). Don’t know about you guys, but they are funny as hell for [...]
May 18th, 2009 at 3:23 am
i’m so curious, what’s the name of the building in the first poster?
April 27th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Very funny! I laughed out loud and that makes you feel good, where can we get some of these great poster?
April 26th, 2009 at 4:01 am
haha some of them were really lame but some of them were fu*ken funny as nice work dude especially the last one
April 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
really cool photos! tnanx a lot!!:))
April 20th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
The fact that people actually think this is worthwhile is an argument in favour of atomic genocide.
April 12th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
well done
April 8th, 2009 at 3:32 am
J. Paul is an idiot. An unbelievable idiot.
April 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Awesome pictures! so funny lol, you got a thumbs up
March 29th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Will you sell any copies of your work? You have a few I would be interested in if they were affordable.
Thank you,
JP
March 27th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Haha these are pretty funny.
I think that some of the motivators would’ve been a lot more clever, and more amusing if they had said less in the motivators. Like the one with the triangle, I laughed really hard till I read the rest. I’m not trying to be a hater or anything. You just have potential.
I do like seeing all these pictures again, see some more of these motivators. There are really good ones out there!!!
March 27th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Thank You So Much
I enjoyed a lot
I will paste the last one to my facebook..
March 26th, 2009 at 3:47 am
Thanks for fabulous explanations via awesome posters , i just tweeted and stumbled this post.:P
March 16th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I love the one with the little asian boy stuck in the bottom of the well!!
lol defintitley the funniwst one in the line up hahaha
March 13th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
The math, the microwave, and the guy at rock bottom were the funniest. That made my day! I wonder if they do stop time?
JK
March 11th, 2009 at 10:27 am
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in years!
March 11th, 2009 at 8:34 am
smile is gunny
March 9th, 2009 at 4:01 am
really funny posters, amazing hahahah
March 6th, 2009 at 7:06 am
funny pictures…a picture sure is worth a thousand words…
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Thanks for providing the laughter, we all need to find a smile but I will admit that I laugh even harder when I find someone arguing about a word or expression when all along they miss the point that you are providing A JOKE!!!! An attempt at humor!!!
To laugh, to smile, to just for one moment in time to remember that underneath all the stuffed shirts and giant egos the human race is sad and needs to get a grip and quit taking everything that comes along so seriously. In the end of this nobody gets out alive and we can’t take our toys or our bad attitudes with us so loosen up and laugh, what else have you to do that is so important LMAO
StarDust
March 1st, 2009 at 12:06 am
I laughed my bloody socks off, great stuff.
TVM
February 27th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
the last pretty much describes how i feel after work everyday.
too funny.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
oh my god, there meant to be funny, people. have a f**king sense of humor. seriously, it’s pathetic how some will argue over something az insignificant az demotivational posterz. who carez if they are photoshopped? who carez what the difference in a conventional oven & a microwave iz? and who carez who we f**king voted for? THEY ARE FUNNY!! HAHAHA!! GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS & LAUGH!!
February 26th, 2009 at 7:40 am
wifes are not for decoration too :)))
February 24th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Very funny.
February 21st, 2009 at 11:19 pm
After four major surgeries, two “hospital acquired infections”, 18 days total in hospital and four months of recovery, I felt just like the penquin looked in the last poster. Thanks for capturing my mood. Feel better just looking at it.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:04 am
i laughed at the pictures, quite a lot……..honestly i did, some people are undiscovered geniuses and they took these pics, but some of the comments from anally retentative PC people made me laugh so much a little bit of wee came out.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:50 am
funny stuff…. some wording i could take offence to but it fit what you were doing sooooo. my stuff is totaly different … check it out too.
February 17th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
i’m so sick of stumbling on things and finding every commenter arguing. shut up all of you. you have no lives. ironic as it may seem…
February 17th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
LOLOL.. I agree ash.. I think he (or she) is reading WAAAAY too much into a joke..
its just a joke man..
February 16th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Does anyone else HATE IT when people, like pastabake, use “begs the question” incorrectly. IT DRIVES ME CRAZY. begging the question is a phrase used only in regard to circular arguments…not in regard to a question that should be asked. GRAH!
February 9th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Those pictures are hilarious. It definitely brightened my day! Thanks!
February 9th, 2009 at 9:01 am
jajajajaja……
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Awesome site. I love those posters.
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 am
OMG, FUNNY. I loved the cat faxing one. lol
January 31st, 2009 at 10:52 am
LMAO…
find X..
HERE IT IS..
why didnt I think of that in school….
January 30th, 2009 at 10:38 am
LMFAO.. I love the last oone.. :-p lol
im goin home..
January 28th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
omg…..its amazing..!!
January 16th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
im with spunky …and last one its so cruel
January 16th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Damn this post!!!! I looked at the “find x” image and couldnt help it I just burst out laughing here in my very quiet office and got in trouble with my boss - absolutely hilarious!
January 14th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
These are great. My employer required us to post the “motivators”, we put them up next to them. Keeps the company moral up.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Ahahaha, “Sick of Idiots” is brave enough to think about using CUNT but lacks the prunes to spell it out. (Apologies if you were trying to mask the word “cult.”)
And, as many others have so helpfully pointed out, the format deviates from the original Successories concept, this is true. Pissing about that is failing to consider that a.) Successories is hardly a company to defend, and b.) the construction and function of the internet meme.
B is especially important. Memes are fleeting and so must pack their most powerful punch as early as possible. Much like the Wacky Packages fad, the result will resemble, but not work completely like the original. This is part artistic license and partly the desire for instant gratification. Especially with the popularity of the StumbleUpon button, funny-image-makers really can’t afford the luxury of requiring their viewers to think. This takes too much time and time is laughter. Skilled craftsmen know this.
Now, I am by no means excusing the motivational posters who try too hard for the automatic laugh. Disappointingly, the motivational posters featuring some of nature’s funniest objects (women who are fat and/or ugly) are usually of the lowest quality. This, I think, is a mixture of amateur eagerness and truly antisocial, deeply held social values. Some motivational posters just miss the mark.
I think I might go beat my husband now, just because I can.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Hahahahaha….. very inspirational, in case of humor! Not really funny though haha….
January 13th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Of course they’re photoshopped you stupid cu*t. It doesn’t take away from the hilarity though.
January 8th, 2009 at 11:27 am
err.. quite good laughing stuff, “the more money” one is a reality
January 7th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
photoshopped
January 7th, 2009 at 10:33 am
they are ver creative. appreciate them