Rise and Shine: A Collection of Inspiring Good Morning Quotes

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"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

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Hal Elrod

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Ovid

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

- William C. Hannan

"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

"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

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

- Terri Guillemets

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

- D.L. Hughley

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

- Richard Whately

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Wayne Huizenga

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

- William Blake

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

- E. B. White

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

- Mary Oliver

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

- Buddha

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

- Rumi

"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’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

"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

"Every morning is a beautiful morning."

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Bernard Williams

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Evan Esar

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Dalai Lama

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

- Kate Chopin

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

- Doe Zantamata

"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

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

- Maria Robinson

"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

"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"

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

- Sinclair Lewis

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Tony Smite

"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

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

- Dorothy Parker

"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

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."

- Jim Davis

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

- Glen Cook

"Morning will come, it has no choice."

- Marty Rubin

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

- Charles M. Schwab

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

- Sunday Adelaja

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Elle Luna

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

- Tim Ferriss

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Rumi

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Marjorie Hinckley

"Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it."

- Mary Pickford

"Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside—remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."

- Charles Bukowski

"Morning is an important time of day because it sets the tone for the hours that follow."

- Lewis Timberlake

"Morning is the dream renewed, the heart refreshed, earth’s forgiveness painted in the colors of the dawn."

- Kent Nerburn

"Morning is the start of every day and I will live each day like it’s a new day, renewing our love."

- Faraaz Kazi

"The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live."

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Victoria Durnak

"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

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

- Rumi

"The sun just touched the morning; the morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring."

- Emily Dickinson

"Morning is the best time to recharge yourself and make yourself feel better."

- Mehek Bassi

"Every morning, look in the mirror and affirm positive words into your life."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before."

- Jeb Dickerson

"The morning is the most important part of the day. It sets the tone and the tempo for the whole day."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Wake in the morning with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Morning hath gold in its mouth."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"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

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

- Yoko Ono

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up."

- Arthur Wellesley

"Every morning I wake up and thank God."

- Aaron Neville

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

- William Shakespeare

"The world is new to us every morning—this is God’s gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day."

- Baal Shem Tov

"Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Every morning brings new potential, but only you can move the world forward to its fullest."

- Steve Maraboli

"I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me."

- Gina Carano

"I wake up every morning thinking…this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There’s no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal."

- Anita Roddick

"Every morning I wake up and I’m at a loss. What am I going to do next? Am I going to sit around and complain and be negative or am I going to do something?"

- Sarah McLachlan

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

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

"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

"Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them."

- Richard Simmons

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

- Jim Carrey

"Every morning when I wake up, I kiss her forehead as a symbol of gratitude and appreciation and she repays me back with a lovely smile."

- M.F. Moonzajer

"Wake up each day and live as if it were your last."

- Hal Elrod

"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

"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

"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

"The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day."

- Baal Shem Tov

"No matter how good or bad your life is, wake up each morning and be thankful you still have one."

- Paul Walker

"The greatest inspiration you can ever get is to know that you are an inspiration to others. Wake up and start living an inspirational life today."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Walt Disney

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

"Go as far as you can see and you will see further."

- Zig Ziglar

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it. It just means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated."

- Russel Warren

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"I find that the harder I work, the less I call it work."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Muhammad Ali

"You can decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward or you can spend it putting out fires."

- Tony Morgan

"Make today your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

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

- Albert Einstein

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it."

- Maya Angelou

"The question isn’t who is going to let me. It’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

- Orison Swett Marden

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success."

- James Cameron

"Don’t aim for success if you want it. Just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve."

- Jeff Bezos

"Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."

- Walt Disney

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Larry Page

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

- Spencer Johnson

"Being happy or sad, gloomy or excited, moody or stable... are options that are presented to you every morning. You just have to make the right choice."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Every day brings new choices."

- Martha Beck

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

- Juansen Dizon

"Every morning is a new arrival."

- Rumi

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

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Every morning is a fresh start. Wake up with a grateful heart."

- Kristen Butler

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

- Prince

"You are my today and all of my tomorrows."

- Leo Christopher

"Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning."

- Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

"Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first."

- Matthew L. Jacobson

"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world."

- Bill Wilson

"The best inheritance a parent can give their child is a few minutes of their time each day."

- O.A. Battista

"Parents are not the people you come from. They are the people you want to be, when you grow up."

- Jodi Picoult

"Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement, and action has an effect."

- Bob Keeshan

"Family is not an important thing, it’s everything."

- Michael J. Fox

"A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided."

- Robert Brault

"A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

- Agatha Christie

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

- Honore de Balzac

"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."

- Princess Diana

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

- Cardinal Mermillod

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A mother’s love liberates."

- Maya Angelou

"A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day."

- Susan Gale

"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."

- Anne Geddes

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

- Jim Valvano

"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song."

- Pam Brown

"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."

- Steve Martin

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

- Woodrow Wilson

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."

- Helen Keller

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

"A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself."

- Heidi Wills

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

- Thomas Aquinas

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

- John Evelyn

"Good morning! The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready."

- E.B. White

"Morning not only forgives, it forgets."

- Marty Rubin

"Mornings are like a speed bump on the way to breakfast."

- Wallace Shawn

"If you think I’m one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you’re wrong. I’m invariably ill-tempered in the early morning."

- Daphne du Maurier

"There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up."

- Kristen Chandler

"Good morning is an oxymoron."

- Jim Davis

"I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now."

- Louisa May Alcott

"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?"

- Cassandra Clare

"Coffee first. Schemes later."

- Leanna Renee Hieber

"Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better."

- Justina Chen

"Good Morning! Good Morning! The sun is up! Wash! Brush! Comb! Dress! Get up! There is a lot of work to be done!"

- Richard Scarry

"Formula for Success: Rise Early, Work Hard, Strike Oil."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life."

- Ken Poirot

"Your morning sets the tone for the day, so find some way to express gratitude, to set the right tone."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Matthew Weatherley-White

"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me."

- Zane Grey

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"By waking up 30 minutes earlier than usual, you can transform and energize your morning and your life."

- Shawn Wells

"Wake late, win late."

- Amit Kalantri

"Wake up and face life’s challenges head-on. Else, life will become quite a challenge."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"This morning is what it is because you were what you were yesterday. Be what you should be today so that you can be what you want to become tomorrow."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"The way you get out of bed will lay the foundation of the day that lies ahead. So wake up with a smile and walk out with a bounce in your step … you deserve it."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"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

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"If you haven’t been able to achieve something, today is the best time to start working towards it again."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Karen Lamb

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

"Even the smallest of thoughts have the potential to become the biggest of successes … all you have to do is get up and get going."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."

- Beverly Sills

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"There is too much life to be lived for you to hit the snooze button."

- Hal Elrod

"The sun gets up. So up with you!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."

- Oprah Winfrey

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

- Grandma Moses

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"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. I never learned anything while I was talking."

- Larry King

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Today you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Ralph Marston

"Don’t be afraid to fail; it’s proof you’ll soon be successful."

- Barbara Corcoran

"Two things define you: 1. Your patience when you have nothing. 2. Your attitude when you have everything."

- Imam Ali

"Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."

- Julia Child

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Louise Hay

"Do not limit the realization of tomorrow with your doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Challenges make life interesting and overcoming them makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Buddha

"Every morning is a chance to rise and shine, to give glory to the Divine."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Paul Henderson

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

- D.L. Hughley

"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

"Your imagination is your preview of your life."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Confucius

"New day begins with a great smile."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Spencer Johnson

"New day brings new thoughts and strength."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

"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

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

- Joyce Meyer

"'Cause I can see the light of a clear blue morningI can see the light of a brand new dayI can see the light of a clear blue morningOh, and everything's gonna be all rightIt's gonna be okay."

- Dolly Parton

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

- J.M. Power

"I'm happier than the morning sunAnd that's the way you said that it would beIf I should ever bring you inside my life."

- Stevie Wonder

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

- Jagdish Joghee

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

- Jhiess Krieg

"Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step."

- Mark Twain

"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

"The whole earth was brimming sunshine that morning. She tripped along, the clear sky pouring liquid blue into her soul."

- Theodore Dreiser

"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

"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

"Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings."

- Thomas Hardy

"’Good Morning!’ said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"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

"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

"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

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

- Debasish Mridha

"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

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

- Joseph Moran

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

- Richard Wilbur

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

- Katrina and the Waves

"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

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

- Marty Rubin

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

- Yoko Ono

"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

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

- Jim Carrey

"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

"Take the opportunity and build the tomorrow you want."

- Ken Poirot

"Opportunities don’t come easily, you have to create them."

- Chris Grosser

"To do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Believe in yourself and you’re already on the way to success."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The future is for those who believe in their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Rumi

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

- George Washington Carver

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

- Umair Siddiqui

"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

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

- Tom Hanks

"Remember to smile."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Hair, the musical

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Here comes the sun, and I say It's alright."

- The Beatles

"Oh, what a beautiful mornin'Oh, what a beautiful dayI've got a beautiful feelin'Everything's goin' my way."

- Gordon MacRae

"Morning has broken like the first morningBlackbird has spoken like the first birdPraise for the singing, praise for the morningPraise for them springing fresh from the world."

- Cat Stevens

"The longest way must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same."

- Charles Dickens

"The lamp was burning dim and the first cold light of dawn was breaking through the window. The night had been long and dark but the day was the sweeter and the purer in consequence."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"The sun did not rise, it overflowed."

- Ray Bradbury

"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

"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

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

- Joyce Meyer

"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

"Discipline is important for every day regardless of how you feel."

- Jocko Willink

"Start early to get ahead."

- Mark Twain

"The morning is good because we have seen the light, and life, and peace."

- Baal Shem Tov

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

- Paul McCartney

"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

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

- Bill Withers

"You are the softness of the morning dew!"

- Avijeet Das

"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

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

- Danette May

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

- Janet Reno

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

- F. Sionil Jose

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

- Jenny Blake

"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

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

- Debasish Mridha

"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

"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

"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

"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"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

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

- Bill Withers

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"But dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision…"

- John Galsworthy

"The sun comes out, a golden huzzar, from his tent, flashing his helm on the world."

- Herman Melville

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

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

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- French Proverb

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

- Abu Bakr

"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

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

- Ernie Banks

"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

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"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

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."

- Leo Christopher

"Dracula is a morning person compared to me."

- Kim Dallmeier

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"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

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

- Mindy Kaling

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there."

- Unknown

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

"Wake up determined and go to bed with satisfaction."

"The sun is up, the sky is blue, it’s beautiful, and so are you."

- Unknown

"Wake up with determination and go to bed with satisfaction."

- Unknown

"Morning comes with a chance to start a new day."

- Unknown

"Hey there! A new day means another shot at turning your dreams into reality."

"The way you start your day can affect your whole day. Begin it with a smile, calmness of mind, and a heart filled with gratitude."

"Rise up, start fresh, and see the bright opportunity in each new day."

"Every morning brings new potential, but it’s what we do with it that makes a difference."

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

"Good morning! Today’s forecast: sunshine with a 100% chance of happiness."

"Every morning is a blank canvas. You can make it whatever you want."

"The power of thoughts and words is more than you think."

"Good morning! Let your soul and heart reach out to others."

"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."

"Morning! Success isn’t just the end goal but the whole trip."

"Begin your day with purpose and watch how things fall into place."

"Nature has mornings to remind us to wake up and change things."

"Hug the morning tight, as it has the key to the power inside you."

"Morning brings opportunity to gather pearls of wisdom."

"Good morning! Let your heart wake up to see the beauty and the strength of good vibes."

"What you do today shapes tomorrow. Good morning! Make it matter!"

"Life’s canvas is the morning; colour it with care, and good vibes."

"Get up and glow because smart stuff waits for those who look."

"May your morning brim with calm, good vibes."

"Jump out of bed and make your mornings count."

"Every morning gives you a clean slate. Write on it with nice deeds."

"Good morning! Hope the sun brings you clear thoughts and new ideas."

"Mornings are quiet, and that’s when smart thoughts speak up."

"Wake up with a goal, grab the day with gusto, and win."

"Mornings are blessings giving you the gift of smarts wrapped in sunny gold."

"Up and at ’em! Today’s the day to go beyond what you thought possible."

"Morning! The little things you do now lead to big wins later."

"Success isn’t about luck; it’s about doing the work and not giving up."

"Morning! Trust in yourself, and you’re halfway to winning."

"Start your day with a smile and get it over with."

"Morning! Keep in mind the road to success starts with one step."

"Start the day with clear goals, and let good things happen. Morning!"

"Good morning! The path to success is built on effort. Keep a look at it!"

"Success comes by pushing yourself to be better."

"Don’t wait and try to make things happen today."

"Get up and keep going towards your success."

"Wake up! People who take action are the ones who succeed."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it."

"Good morning! May all that you do today be accompanied by God’s blessings, love, and grace."

"Good morning! May your day be as warm as the sun, as cheerful as the laughter of your loved ones, and as divine as the blessings of the almighty."

"Good morning! Shine today as God loves you, and be warm with His grace."

"Morning is a wonderful opportunity to wish to love, to care, to smile, and to see you in good mood."

"Every morning is a joy because it is another chance to see your lovely smile, your charming eyes, and your sweet lips."

"Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm."

"You are the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep."

"Something special awaits you each day. All you need is to recognize it and make the most of it. Have a positive attitude throughout the day and then that today is going to be the best day of your life."

"Every morning is an opportunity to wake up to a new life and to try out another day with a new spirit."

"Rise in the morning as the joy and laughter is waiting for you."

"Good Morning. Hope your day starts with love."

"You make me feel on top of the world."

"I think you’re the prize for all the good I’ve done in life."

"My morning, ray of light! I feel so lucky to have you."

"Morning, my love for you is beyond words. Have a nice day!"

"Hey sleepyhead! Time to shine throughout the day!"

"Morning, you bring a smile to my face."

"You are the colour in my black and white world. Good Morning!"

"Good Morning, Go out and crush it today, sweetie."

"Each new day makes me more thankful for you in my life. Thanks for picking me."

"When I wake up in the morning, I am thinking of you. When I go to bed at night, I am thinking of you. And all those hours in between, I think of us."

"Every morning for me is an opportunity to love you more."

"Good morning! This is God. I will be dealing with all your issues today."

"The sun is as bright as you today."

"Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive."

"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."

"I’m not a morning person, but I woke up this morning. That’s a start."

"Every morning with you feels like a gift."

"Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction."

"Sweetheart, it’s morning and time to wake up. I send you hugs and many kisses, my love."

"The biggest sources of motivation are your own thoughts, so think big and motivate yourself to win."

"Rise up, start fresh, see the bright opportunity in each new day."

"The morning sun has a way of bringing hope to our hearts and light to our souls."

"Sunrise is a reminder that we can start anew every morning."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"My morning is incomplete without hearing from you. And my day is incomplete without seeing you."

"You’re the queen of my world. Morning."

"Good morning! Today, I wanted to keep a record of the interesting things I did. I got up this morning before I had to get ready for work. I almost hit the gym. Almost."

"Rise and shine! Or rise. Shine is overrated."

"Good morning! Remember, even your coffee needs coffee to deal with you."

"Good morning! I tried to be a morning person, but it turns out I’m just a night owl with morning responsibilities."

"Good morning! Don’t worry, the coffee’s brewing, and so is my sarcasm."

"Good morning! May your coffee be strong and your Monday be short."

"Good morning! I intended to get up early in the morning, but I overslept. So, I’ll rise… eventually."