140 Good morning quotes to start your day.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is easier said than done. Keep looking through more quotes to find the positive good morning quotes that help get you to this point.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life.”

Gabourey Sidibe

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

Henry Ford

If the first thing that comes into focus when you wake is a daunting list of to-dos, this quote is for you.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you’re excited for the day? That’s one of my main goals in life.”

Kirsten Dunst

Do a little reflecting with this positive morning quote. What has to be on your calendar for you to wake up feeling excited?

Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising.”

Debasish Mridha

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.”

Austin Kleon

The biggest window we have to the outside world is the screen of our cell phones. Build a morning routine that prioritizes the phone last, and you’ll keep the outside world out longer.

When you’re wide awake, say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.”

Paul McCartney, Great Day

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

Confucius

This can apply to getting out of bed some days, or getting through tough weeks. Keep going.

I’ve found that the first thirty minutes of my day have the biggest impact on how I feel for the rest of my waking hours.”

Molli Sullivan

I've got nothing to say but it's okay, good morning, good morning.”

The Beatles, Good Morning

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.”

Eben Pagan

I'm walking on sunshine, and don't it feel good.”

Katrina and the Waves, Walking on Sunshine

Use this lyric in a brightly-colored card and whoever sees it can’t help but sing the hit song.

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

Spencer Johnson

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein’s forte was physics, but he left a legacy of great mindset quotes, too. How do you think your imagination of the day shapes it?

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.”

D.L. Hughley

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

If you write this morning mindset quote into a letter to someone close, what would it inspire you to write after that?

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

Groucho Marx

In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up.’”

Erykah Badu

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.”

Steve Maraboli

Could you use this quote in a collage of things you’re grateful for?

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

Larry Page

If you’re consistently not excited to get out of bed in the morning, ask yourself what things you find important that you can add more of to your day.

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

Anne Frank

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

The way you improve the world doesn’t have to be profound or newsworthy. Improve your immediate world in any way you can today.

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

Have you ever seen sleeping in as “shortening the morning?” What does that mean of getting up early?

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”

J.M. Power

No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.”

Monica Baldwin

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

What would this inspirational morning quote look like on a poster? What image do you think would go with it?

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”

Beverly Sills

Short but evocative, this quote fits perfectly on a banner to hang at work.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation–to take care of the people who rely on me.”

Tony Parsons

Family motivation good morning quotes inspire us on a different level. They ignite deep feelings of responsibility.

If I fail to follow my morning routine I try to get a hard workout in. A hard workout is like a manual restart of the day.”

Aubrey Marcus

It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

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

The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

Those who aren’t morning people can definitely relate.

Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Have you ever needed to give friends or family a wake-up call about something they say they want, but never take the steps to achieve? Send this sentiment in a letter as a kick they clearly need.

Make each day your masterpiece.”

John Wooden

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it’s your turn.”

Lou Holtz

Imagine what unexpected things could happen today, where you could end up being the person that does something extraordinary.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

Ralph Marston

Mornings are like nature in spring … humming with the sounds of life and the promise of a fresh new day.”

LeAura Alderson

Every morning is a reminder to let go the past and embrace the present.”

Tonmoy Acharjee

This sentiment comes easiest after a good night of sleep.

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

Buddha

Because you know what happens when you say ‘hello’ or ‘good morning?’ You make a connection. And isn’t that what being human is all about?”

Philip Rosenthal

How much do you think about your impact on others each morning? From family under the same roof to the barista at the coffee shop, making a simple connection with a “good morning” can make them feel good and you feel even better.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

Henry David Thoreau

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

You know how ostriches hide their heads in the sand? That’s what avoiding the morning is like: silly, and utterly useless.

Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.”

Jim Carrey

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

I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.”

Terri Guillemets

There are some night owls this will never be true for, but there are times all of us have to be up before the chickens. We might as well enjoy those unique and charming things about the early hours.

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

What a simple and perceptive way to describe the value of listening to learn.

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand-new ending.”

James R. Sherman , Rejection

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

Leo Buscaglia

Who in your life would benefit from seeing this quote in a card?

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Grandma Moses)

Grandma Moses was an American folk artist who lived to the ripe age of 101. With over a century of wisdom, the painter left a legacy of many quotes like this one over countless interviews.

I put my phone as far across the room as possible the night before to force me out of bed when the alarm goes off.”

Josh Gross

This is simple yet useful wisdom. See how it actively changes your day when you instantly stretch your legs and stand up in the morning.

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

Today, and every day, change a “someday” wish into a “today” one.

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

Danette May

The most important thing I do each morning is steady myself by not allowing a sense of urgency to penetrate.”

Matthew Weatherley-White

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

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

William Blake

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Try this in the morning: instead of listing out what you have to do, list out the things you can do that will make for a brighter tomorrow.

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.”

Janet Reno

You could call this the “morning morality” effect.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”

Yoko Ono

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

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.”

Rumi

The sun cracks over the horizon and runs like an egg yolk, coloring everything in its path. The “morning” inside of you can color your world the same way.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”

Bernard Williams

The sun did not rise, it overflowed.”

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

This is a breathtaking visual of the morning sun. Show off its beauty in a morning motivation poster or banner.

For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.”

Amit Ray

Good morning spiritual quotes don’t always mention God or angels. This visual compares love to a light and says it’s as penetrating and warm as the sun.

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

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

The first three words are all fans need to instantly recall the melody of this picturesque Cat Stevens song.

Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.”

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Don’t be humble about what emblazons you. Let your passion burn so hot it can rival the sun.

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

Just one look at you and I know it's gonna be a lovely day.”

Bill Withers, Lovely Day

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

Sarah Addison Allen

Many beautiful good morning quotes describe the warmth of the sun, but not many describe its sweetness quite like this quote.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.”

E.B. White

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”

Rumi

What would you put in a collage around this morning quote?

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

Use this quote in a card and it could become a keepsake for someone. You might see it perched on a bedside table as someone’s daily morning reminder.

When the sun came up … I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.”

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

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

The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night.”

Victoria Durnak

The silence is one thing morning people like about dawn, and what night people like about dusk. It’s true, though, that morning silence holds the promise of a day while nighttime’s silence does not.

‘There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it,’ said my mother. ‘Put yourself in the way of beauty.’”

Cheryl Strayed

What can you do in the morning to “put yourself in the way of beauty?”

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

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I’m all alone where I’m not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I’m dead in the water.”

Francis Ford Coppola

This personal reveal of movie director Francis Ford Coppola seems like a solid strategy to start the day.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.”

Robert Brault

Some unique morning quotes take an extreme angle on getting up early and making the most of the day.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

Emily Dickinson

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.”

Henry David Thoreau

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.”

French Proverb

Proverbs are generally short, and fit easily onto banners, cards, and collages.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.”

Allen Klein

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

Bram Stoker, Dracula

In the context of the book, Dracula, this morning quote is quite eerie.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Use good morning friends quotes in text messages, cards, collages, and social media graphics for friends at the start of the day.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.”

Bruce Willis

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”

T.E. Lawrence

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”

Abu Bakr

That’s a strong opinion, but there are other morning larks who agree.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: under-appreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear and the habitual.”

George Saunders

This tenebrous quote straddles a line. On one side, people read it and feel motivated to avoid that scary thought Saunders describes. On the other side are those who look back at their lives with horror, realizing that they’ve already done it.

Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.”

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Ovid

Ovid was a Roman poet, and this quote can turn your own morning into a minute of prose as you say and repeat, “I believe.” What you believe, though, is up to you.

Outside the open window the morning air is all awash with angels.”

Richard Wilbur

Good morning is not just a word. It’s 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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Most of us think of nature when we think of morning: the sunrise, birds chirping, the morning dew. Henry David Thoreau proposes that we connect even more directly with nature first thing every day.

The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know, and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.”

Joseph Moran

For anyone in love, this morning quote puts the happiest mornings into sweet words.

Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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 good on?”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

It's a fair question, Gandalf.

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

Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”

Nanea Hoffman

Good morning coffee quotes are among the most relatable. You can’t go wrong using this on a card, poster, or social graphic.

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?”

Oscar Nuñez

Imagine a collage of junk food adorning this funny morning quote on a flyer from a nearby store. You would never look at breakfast the same.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”

Carl Sandburg

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”

Mindy Kaling

Said like a true night owl.

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.”

Lewis Black

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.”

William Feather

This funny morning quote is cute because it’s true. There exists such a thing as too many “good mornings,” so know your audience.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

William Arthur Ward

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, ‘Awe sh*t, they’re up.’”

Dwayne Johnson

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

Kurt Vonnegut

When you put it that way … that explains everything.

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

Glen Cook

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”

Jim Davis

Great attitude is like a perfect cup of coffee—don’t start your day without it.”

Lisa Lieberman-Wang

More good morning coffee quotes for those who need the morning java before the first “good morning” can be uttered.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dali.”

Salvador Dali

Switch “Salvador Dali” for “me,” and you have the perfect caption for a social graphic or selfie to share.

If it’s 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

That’s a graphic way to make a point, but it definitely drives it home.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”

Jean Kerr

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”

Groucho Marx

In the morning, I woke like a sloth in the fog.”

Leslie Connor

The visual this calls to mind is what’s funniest about this quote. The card you could make to accompany it could be both funny and adorable.

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

Wayne Huizenga

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

Richard Whately

This metaphor offers a great incentive to avoid falling behind. No one wants to play catch-up, least of all at work.

I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.”

Terri Guillemets

In the afternoon, the water cooler is the meeting point. In the morning, it’s the break room coffee pot.

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

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

A little sarcasm can be well-executed at work with this work morning quote.

Front-loading my day (getting a whole bunch done in the morning) is my productivity secret.”

Celeste Headlee

Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.”

Elle Luna

The morning routine at home is part one, and the morning routine at work is part two. People need both to get settled in.

If I can feel like the chaos [of the day ahead] is at least known, I can dive in with more composure.”

Wendy McKennon

The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.”

William C. Hannan

This short, inspiring morning quote for teams is so catchy it can become an office-wide mantra.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”

Victor Hugo

You’ve got to wake up each day and understand what that day is about; you’ve got to have personal goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.”

Cary Cohn

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

George S. Patton

You can pull this convincing quote out when a decision gets bottlenecked at the next meeting.

The sun is new each day.”

Heraclitus

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.”

Richelle E. Goodrich

How can you individually brighten each other’s day? Make it a practice to ask yourselves that as a team.

You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.”

Evan Esar

The last place you want to go “undressed” is work.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

Mark Twain

Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

Muhammad Ali

It can be a turning point in our performance, career, and future when we catch ourselves “counting the days” instead of making each day count.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‘cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can?”

Dolly Parton

If you’re at work anyway, why not make the most of it?

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”

J. Paul Getty

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

George Lorimer