Check out this handpicked selection of coffee quotes to remind you of the powerful effects of the world’s most beloved beverage.

There’s something magical in the way coffee can brighten our morning mood and give us the spark to seize the day.

Coffee is one of those drinks that many of us can’t do without. Like most of us, you probably start your day with a cup of coffee. The brew is great for keeping us on our toes throughout the day.

Besides the obvious physical implications, scientific studies have revealed that coffee has psychological benefits as well.

Research has demonstrated that even a small dose of coffee can make you focus on the positive and improve your performance.

In addition, coffee is a great social drink. Whenever you want to be social, instead of drinking alcohol, just grab a cup of coffee. Because of its stimulating qualities, it will loosen you up and help you enjoy yourself at the party.

To help you celebrate the love for your favorite beverage, below is our collection of hot, funny, and inspirational coffee quotes, coffee sayings, and coffee proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

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Coffee Quotes to Wake You Up Every Morning

1. “It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee.” – Donna A. Favors

2. “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”― Cassandra Clare

3. “I like my coffee like I like myself: strong, sweet, and too hot for you.”  – Jac Vanek

4. “Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of a goat.” – J.S. Bach

5. “Coffee. Creative lighter fluid.” – Floyd Maxwell

6. “I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.”― Louisa May Alcott

7. “No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.” — Sheik Abd-al-Kabir
8. “Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.” – Jessi Lane Adams
9. “I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” – Terri Guillemets

10. “Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” — Fran Drescher

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11. “Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” – Stephanie Piro
12. “Never trust anyone who doesn’t drink coffee.” – AJ Lee

13. “Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love.” – Turkish Proverb
14. “Coffee, It’s the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champions!” – Mike Ditka

15. “Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.” ― Justina Chen Headley

16. “There’s nothing sweeter than a cup of bitter coffee.” — Rian Aditia

17. “Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson

18. “Please pour me some coffee and sit beside me. I want to have a perfect start to this day.” ― Nitya Prakash

19. “What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?” – Anthony Trollope

20. “I love my Saturday coffee the way I used to love Saturday morning cartoons.” – Nanea Hoffman
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21. “Never underestimate the power of a good cup of coffee.” – Ursula Vernon

22. “I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.”– Burt Lancaster

23. “Strange how the bitterness of coffee makes life sweet.” – Suhaib Rumi

24. “At least there was coffee. Reliable, delicious, life-giving coffee.” – Mary H.K. Choi

25. “The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.” ― Sir James Mackintosh

26. “Four cups of coffee a day may keep depression at bay.” ― Steven Magee

27. “It’s when you look over the top of your coffee cup, that you can smile at life.” ― Anthony T. Hincks.

28. “I do not question anyone anymore. I drink coffee and I live.”― Tahar Ben Jelloun

29. “To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.” – Hugh Jackman

30. “Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.” ― Catherynne M. Valente

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31. “Why, yes, I could start my day without coffee. But I like being able to remember things like how to say words and put on pants.”  – Nanea Hoffman

32. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson

33. “You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.” – Adam Gopnik

34. “Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.” – Peter Diamonde

35. “When I wake up in the morning, I just can’t get started until I’ve had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I’ve tried other enemas.” – Emo Phillips
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36. “To an old man a cup of coffee is like the door post of an old house — it sustains and strengthens him.”— Old Bourbon Proverb

37. “A cup of gourmet coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent.” ― Unknown Author

38. “Coffee is already known to be a preventative factor against mild depression, Parkinson’s disease, and colon and rectal cancers.” – Chris Kilham

39. “Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?”  — Jean Kerr

40. “Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” – David Letterman

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41. “Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.” – Sheik-Abd-al-Kadir

42. “It doesn’t matter where you’re from – or how you feel… There’s always peace in a strong cup of coffee.” ― Gabriel Bá

43. “But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. New York has great water for coffee.” – David Lynch

44. “People say money can’t buy happiness. They Lie. Money buys Coffee, Coffee makes Me Happy!”— Unknown

45. “I love it when the coffee kicks in and I realize what an adorable bad*ss I’m gonna be today.” – Nanea Hoffman

46. “May your coffee be stronger than any challenges you face today. But if not, remember: DON’T throw your cup at anyone. You need it for refills.” – Nanea Hoffman

47. “If you feel a need to get wired, take my advice. Loud, fast music coupled with strong, black coffee is the best way to go.” ― Lou Brutus

48. “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

49. “I love coffee. I sometimes get excited at night thinking of the coffee I’ll get to drink in the morning. Coffee is reason to wake up. There are other reasons, of course. But coffee is the incentive, at the very least.” ― Annie Clark

50. “Coffee should not be drunk in a hurry. It is the sister of time, and should be sipped slowly, slowly. Coffee is the sound of taste, a sound for the aroma. It is a meditation and a plunge into memories and the soul.” ― Mahmoud Darwish

More coffee quotes and sayings

51. “What do you want? Just coffee. Black – like my soul.” – Cassandra Clare

52. “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” – Terry Pratchett

53. “No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for Before Coffee.” – Cherise Sinclair

54.“The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.” – Sir James MacKintosh

55. “The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.” – Haruki Murakami

56. “Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.” – Ankita Singhal

57. “A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.” ― Marcia Carrington

58. “I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.” – Howard Schultz

59. “Having charged your heart and brain with a cup of coffee, you’re ready to face the challenges of life.”― Sahara Sanders

60. “There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women…” ― Orson Welles

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61. “Coffee is a language in itself.” — Jackie Chan

62. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” — T. S. Eliot

63. “Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.” — Rita Moreno

64. “The road to success is paved in coffee.”— Unknown

65. “Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.”— Terri Guillemets

66. “I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.” — Ronald Reagan

67. “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” — Abraham Lincoln

68. “Everyone should believe in something. I believe I will have another coffee.”— Unknown

69. “My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.” — Anton du Beke

70. “I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.”— Napoleon Bonaparte

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71. “I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” –Lewis Black

72. “I can’t imagine a day without coffee! I can’t imagine.” –Howard Schultz

73. “I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.” –Ice Cube

74. “I like a venti black coffee, no room for cream or sugar.” –Victor J. Glover

75. “I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book.” –Marianne Vos

76. “There’s nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.” –Gautham Menon

77. “When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” –Helen Hayes

78. “I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rainforests.” –Rob Dyrdek

79. “Life’s too short for bad coffee.” –Gord Downie

80. “I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup.” –Marcus Samuelsson

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81. “Not all who wander are lost. Some are just looking for coffee.” 

82. “A morning without coffee is like sleep.” 

83. “Coffee: When your brain needs a hug.” 

84. “Happiness is the smell of early morning coffee.” 

85. “When you steal someone’s coffee is it called mugging?”

86. “Drink some coffee and pretend you know what you’re doing.” 

87. “Today’s good mood is sponsored by coffee.”

88. “‘I’m gonna need you to be strong today,’ I whisper to my coffee.” 

89. “Nothing stands between a girl and her coffee.” 

90. “A yawn is a silent scream for coffee.”

Coffee Quotes To Make You Laugh

91. “I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.” — Carly Simon

92. “Coffee smells like magic and fairytales.” — Allison Czarnecki

93.“They said I could be anything, so I decided to be caffeinated!” — Lizzie Chantree  

94. “Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.” — Alphonse Allais

95. “Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

96. “I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.” — Clark Gable

97. “Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”— Edward Abbey

98. “I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.” — Steven Wright

99. “I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.” — Sandra Bullock

100. “Coffee first. Schemes later.” ― Leanna Renee Hieber

Coffee Quotes To Make You Feel Motivated

101. “He was my cream, and I was his coffee – And when you poured us together, it was something.” — Josephine Baker

102. “Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.” — Bill Cosby

103. “A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” — Alfred Renyi

104. “Among the numerous luxuries of the table… coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable.” — Benjamin Franklin

105. “Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.” — Star Trek

106. “Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis – a good hot cup of coffee.” — Alexander King

107. “I don’t know how people live without coffee, I really don’t.” — Martha Quinn

108. “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 

109. “Coffee connects us in so many ways – to each other, to our senses, and to the earth that supports the coffee trees.” — Rohan Marley

110. “The world without coffee is like the Brits without tea.” — Jeremiah Say

Which of these coffee quotes is your favorite?

Coffee is a great beverage with so many things to like. Whether you enjoy a cappuccino, an espresso, or simply black coffee, there’s no denying the powerful effects of the brew.

For most people, a couple of cups a day can be a healthy part of the diet. To avoid the negative issues associated with too much caffeine, enjoy it in moderation.

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