Birthday Card Message Ideas - Fun or Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

Need some fun or inspirational birthday card message ideas?

Birthday card messages can be funny, sentimental, lighthearted or meaningful - the trick is to decide which category to use for which person. To make this decision, you need to know a little something about them.

Birthday card messages should reflect some of your personality, but at the same time be about the person whose birthday it is.

Use these messages as inspiration for lighthearted or funny messages.

"Don't count the years! Count the blessings! Have a wonderful Birthday!" - Source Unknown

"Older, wiser and even more good-looking." - Source Unknown

"Even though I don't see how it would be possible, I am celebrating the fact that someone even more annoying than you was not born in your place. Just Kidding, Happy Birthday!" - Source Unknown

"Happy Birthday, to a timeless classic, who will never go out of style." - Source Unknown

"If we did not have calendars with all the months and years
we'd act the way we felt inside
push aside old age fears
so feel young, have fun and
Have a Great Day"
- Source Unknown

"The years have flown by so quickly,
But I must say that to you they have been kind
Then again, you can't take my words exactly
As by now I am half blind
Have a Very Happy Birthday!"
- Source Unknown

"Birthday surprises in all shapes and sizes - Have fun! Happy Birthday!" - Source Unknown

Did you find any of the above birthday card message ideas useful?

For a more sentimental or meaningful message, use these examples of birthday card message ideas to create your own.

"May you have many more years of adventures,
May you have many more years of laughter,
May you have many more years of special moments,
But most of all may you have many more years just like the ones we have shared."
- 101InspirationalIdeas.com

Here are a couple more birthday card message ideas with unknown sources.

"When I am with you, life is so relaxed and easy. Laughter comes so readily and funny tales flow out so frequently. I have to catch my breath now and then and be amazed at how funny you can be! You're the most fun and hilarious friend I've ever had! Wishing you absolutely the most amazing birthday ever!"
- Source Unknown

"There are the occasional moments in life when you look at someone and simply feel grateful for that person. You are one such person I'm thankful to have in my life. I can't even begin to tell you how much you mean to me, and how happy I am to be able to share so many of life's ups and downs together with you. You're so wonderful and such a blessing to me! Happy Birthday!"
- Source Unknown

Here are two birthday card message ideas we have penned.

"We could not imagine our lives without you in it. You fill our moments with joy, fun, laughter and hope, and on this special day, we want to do the same for you. Happy Birthday!"
- 101InspirationalIdeas.com

"Our wish for you on your birthday is that your heart is filled with love, that your soul is filled with contentment, and your body is filled with joy. Happy Birthday!"
- 101InspirationalIdeas.com

These quotes from famous people are more birthday card message ideas you could use - they will give your birthday messages an intellectual feel.

"From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye."
- William Butler Yeats

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
- Tom Stoppard

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
- Jonathan Swift

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."
- Titus Maccius Plautus

"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."
- Gail Sheehy

"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs good cash."
- Sophie Tucker

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
What an inspiring quote to use as a birthday card message idea!

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
- Oprah Winfrey
This is yet another inspirational quote to use as part of birthday card message ideas!

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again."
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Writing a message or even choosing a birthday card message idea that is already written can be a bit difficult, but this task does not have to be impossible. If you are unsure, then write something from the heart - even if it is a simple one liner, often, they do have more impact.

Most of all, spend some time thinking about the person you are writing the message to, and something inspirational for birthday card message ideas will very likely come to mind.

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