Start Your Day Right: A Curated Collection of Good Morning Inspirational and Motivational Quotes

"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

"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

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

- Rumi

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

- Buddha

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

- George Lorimer

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"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

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

- Bernard Williams

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- J.M. Power

"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

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

- Spencer Johnson

"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

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Huizenga

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

- Larry Page

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Doe Zantamata

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

- Dalai Lama

"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

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"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

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Buddha

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"You can change your attitude and the entire day in a minute."

- Spencer Johnson

"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

"Every morning is a beautiful morning."

- Terri Guillemets

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

- LeAura Alderson

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

- Rumi

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

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

- Yoko Ono

"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

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

- Janet Reno

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

- Jim Carrey

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"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

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

- Tonmoy Acharjee

"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

"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

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

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

- William Shakespeare

"Every day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The world is new to us every morning – this is God’s gift."

- Martin Luther

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

- Rumi

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Aristotle

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"New day brings new thoughts and strength."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Tom Hanks

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"New day begins with a great smile"

- Steve Maraboli

"It does not matter how slowly you go but do not stop."

- Confucius

"Cover the whole world with darkness, but sun will rise everyday."

- Debasish Mridha

"Your imagination is your preview of your life."

- Albert Einstein

"No matter how bad things are, be happy that it’s morning again."

- D.L. Hughley

"I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day"

- Paul Henderson

"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

"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

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Each morning when I open my eyes, I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today."

- Groucho Marx

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

- Hal Elrod

"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

"If you win the morning, you win the day."

- Tim Ferriss

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

- Plato

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it’"

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Amit Ray

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Paul McCartney

"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

"And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. ‘Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?’"

- Mary Oliver

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Aristotle

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

- Yoko Ono

"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

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

- Marty Rubin

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- William C. Hannan

"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

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

- Meister Eckhart

"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

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

- D.L. Hughley

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

- Bill Withers

"Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy. But, life salutes you when you make others happy."

- Charlie Chaplin

"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Jhiess Krieg

"I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written."

- Juansen Dizon

"Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising."

- Debasish Mridha

"Remember to smile."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace..."

- Umair Siddiqui

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

- Danette May

"When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day."

- F. Sionil Jose

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

- Dick Cheney

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

- Evan Esar

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

- Richard Whately

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

- Mary Oliver

"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

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

- Terri Guillemets

"A good beginning makes a good end."

- Louis L'Amour

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success"

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Niccolo Machiavelli

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

- Aristotle

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

- Ovid

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

- Joseph Moran

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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."

- Kahlil Gibran

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Abu Bakr

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

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"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

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

- French Proverb

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- William Blake

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Richard Wilbur

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

- Socrates

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

- Voltaire

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

- Blaise Pascal

"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

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Joyce Meyer

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"Morning will come, it has no choice."

- Marty Rubin

"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

"A morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening tea cannot be expected to reproduce."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

- Louis Hector Berlioz

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Alexander Pope

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Dorothy Parker

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."

- Jim Davis

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

- Tony Smite

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

- Glen Cook

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