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

"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

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Buddha

"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

"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

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

- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

"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

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

- Charles M. Schwab

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

- Richard Whately

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

- Amit Ray

"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

"Morning will come, it has no choice."

- Marty Rubin

"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

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

- William Arthur Ward

"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

"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

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

- Bernard Williams

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

- Rumi

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Will Rogers

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

- Walt Whitman

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

- Karen Lamb

"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

"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

"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

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

- Sunday Adelaja

"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

"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

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Marty Rubin

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

- Buddha

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

- D.L. Hughley

"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

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Yoko Ono

"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

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"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

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

- George Eliot

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Jim Carrey

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

- Wayne Huizenga

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

- Rumi

"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

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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’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

"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

"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

"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 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

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

- Jenny Blake

"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

"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

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

- Dick Cheney

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

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

- Aristotle

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- William Shakespeare

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Socrates

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

- Voltaire

"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

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

- Plato

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

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

- Paul McCartney

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

- Debasish Mridha

"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

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

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- Louise Hay

"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

"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

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

- Elle Luna

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

- Evan Esar

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Blaise Pascal

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

- Alexander Pope

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

- Danette May

"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 is a beautiful morning."

- Terri Guillemets

"Remember to smile."

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Bill Withers

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

- Mary Oliver

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

- E. B. White

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Umair Siddiqui

"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.

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Louis Hector Berlioz

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

- George Washington Carver

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

- Tom Hanks

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

- Katrina and the Waves

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

"Not everything needs to to be A level work. Sometimes C work is enough."

- my mom

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

- French Proverb

"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

"Dracula is a morning person compared to me."

- Kim Dallmeier

"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

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

- Dorothy Parker

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Ernie Banks

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

"Perfect is the enemy of good enough"

"Perfection is the enemy of progress."

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

"It's better to have it done, than worry about perfection and have nothing"