176 Waking Up Quotes to Inspire Your Mornings and Start Your Day with Purpose

"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 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

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Rise and shine! With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

- Kate Chopin

"I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!"

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Debasish Mridha

"Hope begins in the dark. The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

- Anne Lamott

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

- Sam Levenson

"Make today your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Spencer Johnson

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this."

- Chantal Sutherland

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day."

- Vera Nazarian

"To say goodbye, is to die a little.To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter."

- Nabil TOUSSI

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."

- Stephen R. Covey

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."

- Langston Hughes

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"

- Tim Ferriss

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Robert Collier

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

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

- Michael Jordan

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Walt Disney

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

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

- Dr. Seuss

"If you believe in yourself, anything is possible."

- Miley Cyrus

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

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

- Glen Cook

"A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray."

- Marcia Carrington

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

- Sarah Addison Allen

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

- Yoda

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time."

- Vivek Naik

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."

- Bo Bennett

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives."

- Maya Angelou

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you"

- Mariah Carey

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

- Laini Taylor

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation"

- Brian Tracy

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"Amplifying what is great within you will accelerate your life faster than fixing what you think 'limits' you."

- Brendon Burchard

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"When things go wrong, don't go with them."

- Elvis Presley

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

- Mallika Tripathi

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

"Are you always up this early?' I asked him.'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable."

- Donna Tartt

"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent."

- Susan Cain

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"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

"How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky."

- Shannon Hale

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

- Richard Wilbur

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else"

- Stephen Hawking

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

- Criss Jami

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it"

- Salvador Dali

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

- Mister Rogers

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo –far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that's why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those towns with one single coffee shop and where everyone knows each other's name. I walked for a while until I found the water, the most peaceful place I know. There I sat and stayed the whole day, with nothing and everything on my mind, cleaning my head. Silence, I learned, is some times the most beautiful sound."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality."

- John Kennedy Toole

"Fall in lovewith the energyof the morningstrace your fingers along the lullof the afternoonstake the spirit of the eveningsin your armskiss it deeply and thenmake loveto the tranquilityof the nights."

- Sanober Khan

"i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun."

- Sanober Khan

"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."

- Rick Riordan

"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 fucked up little life."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs."

- Roman Payne

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."

- Umberto Eco

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