Our latest collection of morning quotes to help you start the day with excitement and gratitude.

The power of positive thinking and positive self-talk is profound. The things we think of early in our day are most often what sets the tone for the entire day.

Therefore, it is so important that we have available to us – whether it be in mind, on paper, taped to our mirrors, or in our planners – some of our favorite quotes and thoughts. This helps provide a quick reference and touchstone for us.

If we are able to refer to a motivating thought on a second’s notice, we can think positive thoughts that will lift our spirits to properly take on our day. With that in mind, here are some inspiring good morning quotes to get you started:

The Best Morning Quotes to Help You Seize the Day

1. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

2. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

3. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

4. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

5. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar

6. “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

7. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin

8. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

9. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

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10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

12. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

13. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

14. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

15. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”- Steve Jobs

16. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin

17. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

19. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Denise Brennan-Nelson

20. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

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21. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

22. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

23. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses

24. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”– Mark Twain

25. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius

26. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry James

27. “If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.” – Tim Ferriss

28. “Don’t worry about failures; worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”- Jack Canfield

29. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

30. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

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31. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

32. “The best revenge is massive success.”- Frank Sinatra

33. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi

34. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”- Robert Schuller

35. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”― Roy T. Bennett

36. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

37. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”― Lou Holtz

38. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

39. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.” – Seth Godin

40. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

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41. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

42. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

45. “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”― Roy T. Bennett

46. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

47. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” – Tricia Cunningham

48. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

49. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry S. Haskins

50. “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”― Bruce Lee

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51. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

52. “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard

53. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

54. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom

55. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

56. “For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.”― Amit Ray

57. “Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.”― Anasazi Foundation

58. “This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!”― Mehmet Murat ildan

59. “In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.”― Debasish Mridha

60. “I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when?”― Ashley Ormon

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61. “I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.”― Jeffrey Fry

62. “When you wake up every morning, let thanksgiving be your first thought.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

63. “It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.”― John Steinbeck

64. “Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.”― Gail Carson Levine

65. “You must wake up in the morning thinking of things you could change in and about your life on a daily basis.”― Sunday Adelaja

66. “Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.”― Medeia Sharif

67. “No one can ever bring the morning back at midnight.”― Munia Khan

68. “The first few moments of the day are some of the most important as they can determine the mood for the rest of the day.”― Daniel Willey

69. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive– to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”― Marcus Aurelius

70. “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”― Sydney Smith

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71. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

72. “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” – Mark Twain

73. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” –Robert Collier

74. “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” – George Washington Carver

75. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach

76. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”– Meister Eckhart

77. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

78. “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

79. “If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.”– Les Brown

80. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” – Rumi

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81. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

82. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

83. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

84. “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

85. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun

86. “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

87. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington

88. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” – Rumi

89. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

90. “The morning was full of sunlight and hope.” – Kate Chopin

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91. “Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”― Criss Jami

92. “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”– Billy Wilder

93. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

94. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”– Maria Robinson

95. “A smile is the beauty of the soul.” – Lailah Gifty

96. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”– Anatole France

97. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani

98. “Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

99. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

100. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”– Dale Carnegie

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101. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”― James Oppenheim

102. “This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death.”—Og Mandino

103. “Rise and rise again until lambs become lions.”― Robin Hood

104. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

105. “I love the smell of possibility in the morning.” – Unknown

106. “What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.”—Sarah Smiley

107. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day!” – Unknown

108. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

109. “Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm.” – Unknown

110. “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”—J.R.R. Tolkien

Inspirational morning quotes to fill you with positivity

111. “Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” – Unknown

112. “Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it … look at it and really see it … try it on … live it … exhaust it … and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it.”—Erma Bombeck

113. “Let your soul expand, let your heart reach out to others…” – Unknown

114. “The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. When I wake to see that it’s light out already, I feel the world has started without me.”—Terri Guillemets

115. “Stop thinking of what could go wrong and start thinking of what could go right.” – Unknown

116. “Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”—Richard Whately

117. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Unknown

118. Seize the day, whatever’s in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”—Lloyd Alexander

119. “Good Morning! It’s a brand new day…” – Unknown

120. “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”—Emily Dickinson

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121. “Each morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters most.” – Unknown

122. “Good morning is not just a word, its 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

123. “Each sunrise gives hope to your dreams and light to your plans.”-William Ngwako Maphoto

124. “The sun is new each day.” –Heraclitus

125. “Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.” –Richelle E. Goodrich

126. “I’ve learned that a smile and good morning goes a long way, and saying thank you goes even further.”-Unknown

127. “With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.” –Unknown

128. “Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before.” – Jeb Dickerson

129. “Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.”-Jacques Cousteau

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130. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

Other inspirational morning quotes and sayings

131. “Life is beautiful one day, one hour and one minute will not come again…” – Unknown

132. “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

133. “This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou

134. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

135. “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”-John Lennon

136. “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

137. “Every morning is a beautiful morning.” – Terri Guillemets

138. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” –Henry David Thoreau

139. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”-Aristotle

140. “First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.” – Ovid

141. “Every day, do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebough

142. “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

143. “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

144. “Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” – Carmelo Anthony

145. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga

Morning quotes about the sunrise

146. “The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart.” – Anthony T. Hincks

147. “Another sunrise, another new beginning.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

148. “Cherish the times you can watch the sunrise, there’s only so many in a lifetime.” – Unknown

149. “It’s almost impossible to watch a sunrise and not dream.” – Bernard Williams

150. “As I woke up this morning, and I opened my eyes,

I am very grateful to see another sunrise” – Charmaine J. Forde

151. “Just like the days, no two sunrises are ever the same.” – Jonathan P. Lamas

152. “Dance when the sun comes up.” – A.D. Posey

153. “You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.” – Galen Rowell

154. “Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise.” – Fleetwood Mac
155.” Each time I see a beautiful sunset or sunrise, I have to pinch myself because I can’t believe that I’m awake and not dreaming.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Morning quotes to live by when feeling down

156. “I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” – Terri Guillemets

157. “No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.” – Sheil Abd-al-Kabir

158. “Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.” – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

159. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

160. “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

161. “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 in the morning.” – J. B. Priestley

162.“It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.” – Hermann Hesse

163. “Outside the open window, the morning air is all awash with angels.” – Richard Wilbur

164. “Morning is the start of every day, and I will live each day like it’s a new day, renewing our love.” – Unknown

165.“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis

Morning quotes to make waking up the best part of your day

166. “Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

167. “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams

168. “To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” — Sidney Poitier

169. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” — William Blake

170. “The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.” — Hunter S. Thompson

171. “In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

172. “If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” — Larry Page

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

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176. “Waking up early, connecting with nature, and having my quiet time are priorities to me, and they are non-negotiable.” — Danette May

177. “The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.” — William C. Hannan

178. “Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

179 “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

180. “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” — Thomas Jefferson

181. “I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.” — Terri Guillemets

182. “No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.” — D. L. Hughley

183. “Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you’ll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.” — Janet Reno

184. “I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I’d see.” — Dick Cheney

185. “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” — William Arthur Ward

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