Today’s morning quotes to help give you the spark of starting your day refreshed, with positivity and a sense of purpose.
Two years ago, I set out to wake up at 4am every morning to chase the sunshine. It’s something about those early mornings that gives me hope that I can be better than I was yesterday. Being able to wake up with a fresh start, regardless of what happened the day before really fuels me to take on the day with a purpose.
We know that every day will not always be easy, but the feeling of waking up to start anew is a blessing in itself to try again.
Enjoy these morning quotes!
“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“If its your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” – Mark Twain
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. – Kevyn Aucoin
“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
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” – Ray Bradbury
“The sun is new each day.” – Heraclitus
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.” – James Russell Lowell
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” – Henry David Thoreau
“In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? – Lebron James
Morning quotes to get you excited about the day ahead
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon . Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” – Williams Blake
“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
“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
“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“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
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“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guid him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.” – Victor Hugo
“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
“I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you’re saying: ‘Hope I don’t get chased today.’ ‘Be nice to people in sneakers.” – Demetri Martin
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Morning quotes to help you spark your day with gratitude
“I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.” – Barack Obama
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” – George Washington Carver
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.” – Salvador Dali
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward
“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” – Colin Powell
“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times. – Ovid
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
Morning quotes to start the day with positivity
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“Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.” – Usain Bolt
“A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.” – Marilyn vos Savant
“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
“It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.” – Jerome Lawrence
“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
“I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.” – Pearl Bailey
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.” – Richard Whately
“The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.” – Alexis Carrel
“Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.” – Jack Dempsey
“We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.” – John Cheever
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” – Cary Grant
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
Morning quotes for a productive day
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E.B. White
“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.” – Khalil Gibran
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” – Tecumseh
“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
“Probably the happiest period of life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” – Audrey Hepburn
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to be at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” – Erich Fromm
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” – Benjamin Franklin
“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
“Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.” – Marsha Sinetar
“I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.” – Nelson Mandela
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