Rise and Shine: 50 Inspirational Good Morning Quotes for 2023

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

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"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

"is to start before you are ready."

- Marie Forleo

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"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

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Rumi

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

- Grandma Moses

"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

"You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Walt Disney

"Make today your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"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

"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

"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

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

- Ovid

"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

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

- F. Sionil Jose

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

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

- Jim Carrey

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

- George Eliot

"Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it’s your turn."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Prince

"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

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

- Erykah Badu

"Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life."

- Jack Canfield

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

- Dick Cheney

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Rumi

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

- Confucius

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

- Ralph Marston

"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 road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"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

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

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

- Richard Whately

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it"

- Charles R. Swindoll

"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

"Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor."

- Brian Tracy

"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- William B. Sprague

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Spencer Johnson

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going"

- Sam Levenson

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Maria Robinson

"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

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Marty Rubin

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

- Joyce Meyer

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

- Buddha

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity"

- Albert Einstein

"Champions keep playing until they get it right"

- Billie Jean King

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Rumi

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

- Peter Drucker

"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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"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

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"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

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

- Jagdish Joghee

"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"

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"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

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

- J.M. Power

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

- Paul McCartney

"If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them."

- Steve Maraboli

"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 Schweitzer

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me."

- David Bailey

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart"

- Helen Keller

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions"

- Dalai Lama

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Christian D. Larson

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there"

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Amit Ray

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

- Charles M. Schwab

"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

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Sunday Adelaja

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge."

- Lynda Fiel

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude"

- Maya Angelou

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success"

- Shiv Khera

"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

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment"

- Napoleon Hill

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Danette May

"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

"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

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"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 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

"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

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

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

- Confucius

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."

- John Wooden

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"Your current life is the result of your previous choices, if you want something different, begin to choose differently."

- Joe Tichio

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

- Leo Buscaglia

"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

"The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Spencer Johnson

"When I find something I value, I systematize it into my daily habits. Then I live by my values freely and effortlessly."

- Joshua Spodek

"Front-loading my day (getting a whole bunch done in the morning) is my productivity secret."

- Celeste Headlee

"For many years, my morning routine was a result of how other people expected me to show up. I was overwhelmed and off-center because I was ignoring the messages my body was sending me."

- Amber Rae

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it,’ said my mother. ‘Put yourself in the way of beauty."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."

- T.E. Lawrence

"Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it … look at it and really see it … try it on … live it … exhaust it … and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it."

- Erma Bombeck

"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."

- Virginia Woolf

"Before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like ‘You have really pretty eyes.’ That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence."

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

"Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up."

- Allen Klein

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

- George S. Patton

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

- Marilyn vos Savant

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

- Katrina and the Waves

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

- James Cameron

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

- Evan Esar

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

- LeAura Alderson

"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

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

- Robert Collier

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

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

- George Lorimer

"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

"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

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

- Yoko Ono

"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

"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

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

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

- Terri Guillemets

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

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

- Sinclair Lewis

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"You are the softness of the morning dew!"

- Avijeet Das

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Bill Withers

"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

- Kate Chopin

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is."

- Angelina Jolie

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

- Elle Luna

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

- Jenny Blake

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make."

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Tom Hanks

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Doe Zantamata

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

- Matthew Weatherley-White

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

- David Moore

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

- Hair, the musical

"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

"You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to."

- Good Will Hunting

"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

"It is only when we take chances when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

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

- Tonmoy Acharjee

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"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

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Steve Maraboli

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Terri Guillemets

"The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world."

- Austin Kleon

"If I can feel like the chaos [of the day ahead] is at least known, I can dive in with more composure."

- Wendy McKennon

"The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: under-appreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear and the habitual."

- George Saunders

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

- E.B. White

"The repetition becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind."

- Haruki Murakami

"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

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"I find that checking my phone [in the morning] tramples over my positive vibes, because we all know that checking messages is like rattling a wasp nest."

- Stephanie Lee

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

- Victoria Durnak

"I put my phone as far across the room as possible the night before to force me out of bed when the alarm goes off."

- Josh Gross

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

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- Ernie Banks

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mary Oliver

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

- Richard Wilbur

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

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

- Barbara Corcoran

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

- Mallika Tripathi

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- David Frost

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- William Blake

"Every morning is a beautiful morning."

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Sarah Addison Allen

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Bernard Williams

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

- French Proverb

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

- George Washington Carver

"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

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

- J. Paul Getty

"I care less about my wake-up time than about the number of hours slept."

- Rachel Binx

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- E. B. White

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

"It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning."

- Gordon B. Hinchley

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

- Joyce Meyer

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

- The Beatles

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

- D.L. Hughley

"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

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."

- Jim Davis

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"If I need to remind myself to bring something with me in the morning, I’ll usually put my car keys on top of it."

- Des Traynor

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

- Arthur Wellesley

"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

"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

"Dracula is a morning person compared to me."

- Kim Dallmeier

"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

"Morning will come, it has no choice."

- Marty Rubin

"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

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

- Glen Cook

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Mindy Kaling

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"The morning is good because we remember that no matter what went wrong the previous days, we just got a perfect opportunity to rewrite history and do better."

"Everything in your life is dictated by you. Be who you want to be. Think positive thoughts and great things will happen to you."

"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."

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

"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."

"Mornings are a free pass to new opportunities, so don't take them for granted."

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

"It is a myth that you need to rise and shine to have a good start to a day. You can roll around in bed thinking about friends like me and you will still have a great start to the day."

"She believed a cup of coffee marked the beginning of each day."

"Always believe something wonderful is about to happen."

"Morning is a wonderful blessing, either sunny or stormy. It stands for hope giving us another start of what we call life."

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

"Each new day brings new strength and new ideas."

"Every day, wake up with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen."

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