Best Morning Quotes
Wake up with a mindset of happiness, gratitude, and positivity with these morning quotes and sayings.
You’ll find many inspiring and motivational quotes to start the day right and help make it your best day yet!
Best morning quotes to start the day
You have the power to make today great. Here are some of the best morning quotes for all aspects of daily life.
1. Morning quotes about love
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis
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
For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.
Amit Ray
As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.
Thomas S. Monson
True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.
Shannon L. Alder
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
Romantic morning quotes for her and him
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
I’ll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
William Shakespeare
Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.
Roman Payne
2. Morning quotes for work
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
Larry Page
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. Kinkley
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
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power
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
About success
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
Wayne Huizenga
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
William Arthur Ward
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
Dalai Lama
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
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
One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.
Robert Brault
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
More success quotes and sayings.
3. Inspirational morning quotes
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
Rumi
Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
Og Mandino
The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.
William C. Hannan
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
Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.
Paulo Coelho
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
Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.
Doe Zantamata
Motivational sayings for morning energy
Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.
Dwayne Johnson
You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury
Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.
Jim Carrey
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Meister Eckhart
Seize the day, whatever’s in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
Lloyd Alexander
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What better motivation are you looking for in the morning than the incredible motivation of the morning sunrise?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Encouraging and uplifting morning quotes
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Henry David Thoreau
The longest way must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
Sidney Poitier
Every morning is a revolution against the darkness.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
4. Funny morning quotes
Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.
Nanea Hoffman
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
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
Mindy Kaling
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
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
Glen Cook
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Richard Whately
Cute morning sayings to make them smile
I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Lewis Carroll
I love the smell of the universe in the morning.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
Ursula K. Le Guin
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
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
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
Umberto Eco
Short quotes
Every morning is a new arrival.
Rumi
Morning will come, it has no choice.
Marty Rubin
The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus
Make today your masterpiece.
John Wooden
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
Steve Maraboli
Morning not only forgives, it forgets.
Marty Rubin
5. Morning quotes about life
The morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness.
William Shakespeare
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
Harvey Mackay
It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world.
Mary Oliver
Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all.
Rumi
The most important thing I do each morning is steady myself by not allowing a sense of urgency to penetrate.
Matthew Weatherley-White
Mornings with coffee
A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.
Marcia Carrington
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
More great coffee quotes and sayings.
Morning exercise
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person — beguiled, enchanted.
Mary Ellen Chase
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6. Morning quotes about emotions
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
Sarah Addison Allen
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
When you do something beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
John Lennon
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
About happiness and positive vibes
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
Yoko Ono
Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields… Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
Mary Oliver
Celebrate the new day with shouts of praise, love, and grace, and with a beautiful smile upon your face.
Caroline Naoroji
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
Bruce Willis
About joy
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
William Blake
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
About hope
One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.
Vincent Van Gogh
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Bernard Williams
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever
About gratitude
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Tecumseh
More thank you quotes to express gratitude.
7. Spiritual morning quotes
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Buddha
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
Richard Wilbur
Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise.
Eric Jerome Dickey
The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night.
Victoria Durnak
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
Rumi
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
Deep morning sayings
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Robert Frost
There is nowhere morning does not go.
Leah Hager Cohen
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
Gertrude Stein
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J.R.R. Tolkien
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
More short deep quotes to inspire you.
8. Good morning quotes
Saying good morning to the sun is my favorite was to start the day.
Tahnni Dupre
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 a good one?
J.R.R. Tolkien
The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart.
Anthony T. Hincks
Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Morning blessings for the day
Be the morning in everyone’s eyes and make their day turn into a thing of beauty.
Anthony T. Hincks
This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.
Maya Angelou
When you wake up in the morning, the first thing you should do is smile. You are alive! Isn’t that the most valuable thing?
Sadhguru
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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
9. Famous morning quotes
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The sun has not caught me in bed in 50 years.
Thomas Jefferson
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
Ovid
Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning.
Bible, Ecclesiastes 11:7
When the sun came up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
Tom Hanks, “Forrest Gump”
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama
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
From authors and books
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
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
Have I thought long to see this morning’s face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this?
William Shakespeare
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
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
With charm of earliest birds.
John Milton
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
From song lyrics
Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world.
Cat Stevens, “Morning Has Broken”
You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart.
Carole King, “Beautiful”
I’ve got nothing to say but it’s okay, good morning, good morning.
The Beatles, “Good Morning”
Just call me angel of the morning, angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby.
Juice Newton, “Angel of the Morning”
Good mornin’, starshine
The Earth says, “Hello”
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below.
Oliver, “Good Morning Starshine”
From poetry
i’m glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning sun.
Sanober Khan
‘Tis always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents, from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.
Mary Oliver
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By Greg Johnson | Published 2/22/2023
