Start Your Day Right: A Curated Collection of Early Morning Inspirational Quotes

### Embrace the Dawn with Wisdom and Positivity Mornings hold a special magic — a fresh start, a new opportunity, and a chance to set the tone for the entire day. Our carefully curated collection of early morning inspirational quotes is designed to uplift your spirit and ignite your motivation as the sun rises. ### Quotes to Inspire Your Morning Routine From timeless wisdom by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Buddha to modern reflections by Oprah Winfrey and Steve Jobs, these quotes remind us of the power and promise each morning brings. Whether you seek encouragement to chase your dreams, gratitude for a new day, or a gentle nudge to embrace positivity, this collection has something for everyone. ### Why Morning Inspiration Matters Starting your day with inspiring words can transform your mindset, boost productivity, and foster resilience. Let these quotes be your morning companion, helping you greet each day with enthusiasm and purpose. Dive in, reflect, and let the morning light guide your journey ahead.

Wisdom from the Masters

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

Awareness

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."

- Rumi

Awareness

"Good morning! The best way to start the day is with a positive attitude and a grateful heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

Gratitude

"It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."

- Colin Powell

Optimism

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

New Beginnings

"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning."

- Larry Page

Motivation

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"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

Awareness

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

New Beginnings

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Motivation

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment."

- Marsha Sinetar

Motivation

"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

- Sidney Poitier

Personal Growth

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."

- Bernard Williams

Hope

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

New Beginnings

"You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again."

- Nicole Scherzinger

New Beginnings

"Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today."

- Doe Zantamata

New Beginnings

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

"God's mercy is fresh and new every morning."

- Joyce Meyers

Faith

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Achievement

"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."

- James Russell Lowell

Gratitude

"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

- Miles Davis

Creativity

"I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'"

- Jim Carrey

Gratitude

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times."

- Ovid

Belief

"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

- Kate Chopin

Hope

"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."

- Lindsay Lohan

Positivity

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

Personal Growth

"There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light."

- Rumi

Awareness

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

- William Blake

Balance

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

- Dalai Lama

New Beginnings

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning."

- Mark Twain

Taking Risks

"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

- Elbert Hubbard

Positivity

"Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Optimism

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy

"Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name."

- Rabindranath Tagore

New Beginnings

"Outside the open window, the morning air is all awash with angels."

- Richard Wilbur

Nature

"Every morning that is all I need to know, and that itself is enough for me to have a good day."

- Joseph Moran

Contentment

"Every morning is a new arrival."

- Rumi

New Beginnings

"Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted"

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Awareness

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."

- Benjamin Franklin

Awareness

"Every day brings new choices."

- Martha Beck

Personal Growth

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Hard Work

"Good morning is not just a word. It’s an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right."

- Fain Blake

Awareness

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

Time Management

"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Determination

"Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it."

- David Guy Powers

New Beginnings

"Every morning is a chance at a new day."

- Marjorie Hinckley

New Beginnings

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

Health

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

New Beginnings

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."

- Robert Kiyosaki

Vision

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi

Love

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

Motivation

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

Creativity

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

Happiness

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them."

- William Arthur Ward

Awareness

"What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder."

- Oprah Winfrey

Hope

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

New Beginnings

"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."

- George Washington Carver

Nature

"I get up every morning, and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day."

- Paul Henderson

Motivation

"Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. It’s an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day."

- Norton Juster

New Beginnings

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life."

- Yoko Ono

Positivity

"First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times."

- Ovid

Belief

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not."

- Elon Musk

Optimism

"Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself."

- Janet Reno

Integrity

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

"Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat: 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'"

- Gina Rodriguez

Motivation

"A year from now, you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

Motivation

"Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness

"Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Ambition

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude

"You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile."

- Evan Esar

Positivity

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

New Beginnings

"Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful."

- Prince

New Beginnings

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love – then make that day count!"

- Steve Maraboli

Gratitude

"In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’"

- Erykah Badu

Positivity

"When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully."

- Steve Maraboli

Gratitude

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

Determination

"When you’re wide awake, say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day."

- Paul McCartney

Motivation

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

- Wayne Huizenga

Success

"If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning."

- Larry Page

Ambition

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

- J.M. Power

Aspirations

"Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Awareness

"I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better."

- Jeffrey Fry

Responsibility

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

- Steve Jobs

Reflection

"One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now."

- Paulo Coelho

Motivation

"The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn."

- William C. Hannan

Ambition

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

- Henry David Thoreau

Well-being

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."

- Richard Whately

Time Management

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

Positivity

"The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there."

- Monica Baldwin

Hope

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

New Beginnings

"Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins."

- Marty Rubin

New Beginnings

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Compassion

"You’ve got to wake up each day and understand what that day is about; you’ve got to have personal goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them."

- Cary Cohn

Goals

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

Positivity

"In one minute, you can change your attitude, and in that minute, you can change your entire day."

- Spencer Johnson

Mindfulness

"When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try."

- Dolly Parton

Motivation

"Good morning is not just a word. It’s an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right!"

- Fain Blake

Motivation

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positivity

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

- J. B. Priestley

New Beginnings

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."

- Henry David Thoreau

Motivation

"The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light."

- S. Ajna

New Beginnings

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

Courage

"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

Hope

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Taking Risks

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

Positivity

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

- Henry Ward Beecher

Philosophy

"I get up in the morning looking for an adventure."

- George Foreman

Ambition

"If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals."

- Lou Holtz

Ambition

"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."

- Jonathan Swift

Hard Work

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

- Victor Hugo

Organization

"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

- Robert Orben

Ambition

"Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm."

- Charles M. Schwab

Motivation

"Look out of the window and take in the brightness from the sun. Forget the clouds and shadows of doubt and fear. Life awaits you in all its fullness; it’s another beautiful day. Good Morning!"

- Ron Manchester

Positivity

"Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?"

- Robert A. Cook

Self-care

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

- Henry David Thoreau

Awareness

"‘If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning . .. by corruption and groans. Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape. Behavior.’"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivation

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awareness

"What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?"

- Jennifer Aniston

Inspiration

"Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

Independence

"Your attitude is like a box of crayons that colour your world. Constantly colour your picture grey, and your picture will always be bleak."

- Allen Klein

Positivity

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

- Bram Stoker

Reflection

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Productivity

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Achievement

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

Integrity

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Mindfulness

"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."

- Marilyn vos Savant

Creativity

"I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off."

- Bruce Willis

Happiness

"Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person."

- Usain Bolt

Respect

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

Awareness

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

Happiness

"The best dreams happen when you’re awake."

- Cherie Gilderbloom

Aspirations

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

Change

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

Time Management

"God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning."

- Joyce Meyer

Spirituality

"It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you."

- Abu Bakr

Awareness

"Eating right and taking the time to slow down and plan in the morning is crucial to a productive day."

- David Moore

Health

"Every morning, I wake up saying, 'I’m still alive, a miracle.' And so I keep on pushing."

- Jim Carrey

Resilience

"The most important thing I do each morning is steady myself by not allowing a sense of urgency to penetrate."

- Matthew Weatherley-White

Mindfulness

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not."

- Christy Chung

Self-improvement

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

Wisdom

"The morning shines upon everyone the same. Its beauty comes from the fact that we all take in the same beauty."

- Juansen Dizon

Connection to Earth

"Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

- Elbert Hubbard

Strength

"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Awareness

"Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness."

- Nanea Hoffman

Balance

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

Hard Work

"No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning."

- D.L. Hughley

Positivity

"When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes."

- Ernie Banks

Happiness

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

- Aristotle

Motivation

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

- Elbert Hubbard

Hard Work

"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."

- J. Paul Getty

Success

"Because you know what happens when you say ‘hello’ or ‘good morning?’ You make a connection. And isn’t that what being human is all about?"

- Philip Rosenthal

Connection to Earth

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

Gratitude

"I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself."

- Debasish Mridha

Happiness

"She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself."

- Tyler Kent White

Self-improvement

"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, ‘It’s going to be a good day!"

- Lindsay Lohan

Positivity

"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."

- Sunday Adelaja

Hope

"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet."

- Henry David Thoreau

Self-improvement

"Every morning is a beautiful morning."

- Terri Guillemets

Gratitude

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

Determination

"You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you’re excited for the day? That’s one of my main goals in life."

- Kirsten Dunst

Joy

"My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation—to take care of the people who rely on me."

- Tony Parsons

Responsibility

"The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night."

- Victoria Durnak

Awareness

"When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

- John Lennon

Creativity

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world."

- E. B. White

Balance

"The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years."

- Thomas Jefferson

Determination

"Great attitude is like a perfect cup of coffee–don’t start your day without it."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Positivity

"Ask yourself a simple question: How do I wake up every morning? By that, I mean, what do those first few moments of consciousness feel like?"

- Shawn Wells

Mindfulness

"Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all."

- Elle Luna

Creativity

"Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day."

- Eben Pagan

Mindfulness

"These morning practices are what fuel me; keeping my routine is not about willpower."

- Jenny Blake

Wellness

"When I’m tempted to skip my morning routine or another form of self-care, I remind myself that I can better serve the people I love and the projects I care about when I start with me."

- Courtney Carver

Self-care

"Starting my day with exercise gives me a big mood and energy boost throughout the day and makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something right off the bat."

- Jake Knapp

Fitness

"If I fail to follow my morning routine I try to get a hard workout in. A hard workout is like a manual restart of the day."

- Aubrey Marcus

Fitness

"There is enormous power in nailing your morning routine, but there’s even more power in adapting to it when it doesn’t happen as we’d like."

- Terri Schneider

Adaptation

"Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself."

- Caroline Ghosn

Mindfulness

"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

Learning

"Mornings are so precious because it’s when I’m most productive. For me, thirty minutes at 5:30 am is equivalent to at least an hour at 3:00 pm."

- Whitney Johnson

Productivity

"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Balance

"I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

- Miles Davis

Creativity

"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new."

- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

New Beginnings

"I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see."

- Dick Cheney

Gratitude

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

Reflection

"I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings."

- Terri Guillemets

Joy

"Every morning is a reminder to let go the past and embrace the present."

- Tonmoy Acharjee

Personal Growth

"Waking up early, connecting with nature, and having my quiet time are priorities to me, and they are non-negotiable."

- Danette May

Wellness

"I’ve found that the first thirty minutes of my day have the biggest impact on how I feel for the rest of my waking hours."

- Molli Sullivan

Mindfulness

"In the morning, a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health

"Good Morning Starshine. The earth says ‘hello.’"

- Hair, the musical

Happiness

"Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my little life."

- Charlotte Eriksson

Love

"The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know, and that itself is enough for me to have a good day."

- Joseph Moran

Love

"Just one look at you and I know it’s gonna be a lovely day."

- Bill Withers

Love

"Sometimes I wish there was no alarm clock because that is the only device that wakes me up while I am dreaming of you."

- Natalie Jones

Love

"You are the softness of the morning dew!"

- Avijeet Das

Love

"Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings."

- Jagdish Joghee

Love

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever."

- Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"

Love

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."

- Sinclair Lewis

Love

"It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world."

- Mary Oliver

Awareness

"I'm walking on sunshine, and don't it feel good!"

- Katrina and the Waves

Happiness

"Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels."

- Richard Wilbur

Spirituality

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Spirituality

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Khalil Gibran

Connection to Earth

"Not the day only, but all things have their morning."

- French Proverb

Wisdom

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awareness

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

Philosophy

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

Education

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle

Education

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

- Plato

Wisdom

"The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness."

- William Shakespeare

Transformation

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

- Alexander Pope

Contentment

"Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, 'Awe sh*t, they’re up.'"

- Dwayne Johnson

Motivation

"It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul."

- Sarah Smiley

Inspiration

"Mornings are like nature in spring… humming with the sounds of life and the promise of a fresh new day!"

- LeAura Alderson

Nature

"When I’m just waking up I like to keep a space for my own thoughts and ideas. Checking my phone is not a priority of mine."

- Andre D. Wagner

Mindfulness

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Adversity

"I like my coffee black and my mornings bright."

- Terri Guillemets

Happiness

"When the sun came up… I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began."

- Tom Hanks

Nature

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost

Awareness

"Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed."

- Malak El Halabi

Motivation

"For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction."

- Amit Ray

Love

"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."

- William Feather

Positivity

"Morning Darling, I love you; we’re going to have a really great day today."

- Louise Hay

Love

"Morning will come, it has no choice."

- Marty Rubin

Happiness

"Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day."

- Glen Cook

Happiness

"I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out."

- Drake

Happiness

"One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast."

- Robert Brault

Success

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

- Blaise Pascal

Self-awareness

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

- Louis Hector Berlioz

Philosophy

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

- Niccolò Machiavelli

Wisdom

"The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy."

- Sarah Addison Allen

Joy

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

- Voltaire

Wisdom

"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Happiness

"The day shall not be up so soon as I, to try the fair adventure of tomorrow."

- William Shakespeare

Ambition

"You can only come to the morning through the shadows."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Resilience

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue."

- Dorothy Parker

Happiness

"I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?"

- Oscar Nunez

Happiness

"What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France."

- Timur Vermes

Happiness

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

- Oscar Wilde

Bravery

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Awareness

"There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning!'"

- Fulton J. Sheen

Happiness

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."

- Jim Davis

Happiness

"This is not just another day, this is yet another chance to make your dreams come true."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Aspirations

"There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it."

- Mindy Kaling

Nature

"I've got nothing to say but it's okay, good morning, good morning"

- The Beatles

Happiness

"This morning will never ever come back in your life again. Get up and make the most of it."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Motivation

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

- Leonardo da Vinci

Wisdom

"Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon."

- Tony Smite

Happiness

"Dracula is a morning person compared to me."

- Kim Dallmeier

Happiness

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

- Aristotle

Determination

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

Motivation

"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."

Motivation

"Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm."

Motivation

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Leadership

"Good morning! Today is a new day. Let go of whatever is holding you back and embrace what’s ahead."

- Unknown

Transformation

"Rise up, start fresh, see the bright opportunities each day."

New Beginnings

"You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'"

- Unknown

Self-confidence

"Today is a beautiful day and I will attract good things into my life."

- Unknown

Positivity

"Good morning! Life is like a mirror: it will smile at you if you smile at it."

- Unknown

Positivity

"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction."

Determination