84 Good Morning Quotes to Make Getting Out of Bed Even Easier

Mornings get a bum rap. Sure, they're dark, it's a time when you're usually cranky, and there's the looming feeling that so much stuff needs to get done. But just because the pre-noon hours aren't your favorite time of day doesn't mean they aren't quite wonderful in their own way. After all, without mornings, we'd have no sunrise, no chance to start anew, and no reason to brew copious amounts of delicious coffee. Still, if you feel like your wake-up needs an extra boost, try reading through these uplifting good morning quotes. Word on the street is they're just as invigorating as that second shot of espresso.

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Positive Good Morning Quotes to Boost Your Energy

1. "The sun has not caught me in bed in 50 years."
   —Thomas Jefferson
2. "An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
   —Henry David Thoreau
3. "The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn."
   —William C. Hannan
4. "First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, 'I believe,' three times."
   —Ovid
5. "Nothing is impossible when you put your mind, heart, soul, and sweat into it. Have a great morning."
   —Anonymous
6. "The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light."
   —Sara Ajna
7. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
   —Eleanor Roosevelt
8. "Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."
   —Yoko Ono
9. "There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."
   —Bernard Williams
10. "Every morning, I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive, a miracle.' And so I keep on pushing."
    —Jim Carrey
11. "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
12. "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
13. "The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for 40 years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life."
    —Philip Doddridge
14. "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
15. "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
16. "There is something magical about the early morning. It's a time when the world belongs to only those few who are awake. And we walk around like kings while others remain unseen in their beds."
    —Shawn Blanc
17. "Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune, and gave her nature's most healing balm."
    —Louisa May Alcott
18. "Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat: 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'"
    —Gina Rodriguez
19. "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. Hinckley
20. "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
21. "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
22. "The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. 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
23. "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
24. "How you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have."
    —Lemony Snicket
25. "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
26. "Before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like 'You have really pretty eyes.' That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence."
    —Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Beautiful Morning Quotes About Life

27. "'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
28. "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
29. "I've got nothing to say but it's OK, good morning, good morning."
    —The Beatles
30. "When you do something 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
31. "This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before."
    —Maya Angelou
32. "For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction."
    —Amit Ray
33. "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
34. "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
35. "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
    —Albert Einstein
36. "Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."
    —Henry David Thoreau
37. "You can only come to the morning through the shadows."
    —J.R.R. Tolkien
38. "The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy."
    —Sarah Addison Allen
39. "It is a serious thing, just to be alive on this fresh morning, in this broken world."
    —Mary Oliver
40. "If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But 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
41. "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
    —Emily Dickinson
42. "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
43. "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
44. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety."
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. "He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise."
    —William Blake
46. "Today, many will choose to leave the ghost of yesterday behind and seize the immeasurable power of today. Why not you?"
    —Steve Maraboli
47. "This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
    —John Muir
48. "When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every time the sun rises."
    —Paulo Coelho
49. "If you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions, you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
    —Margaret Atwood
50. "Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
    —Mahatma Gandhi
51. "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
52. "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
53. "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
54. "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

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Inspirational Good Morning Quotes About Success

55. "Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."
    —Wayne Huizenga
56. "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
57. "Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."
    —Meister Eckhart
58. "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
59. "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."
    —Gary Cohn
60. "Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself."
    —Caroline Ghosn
61. "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
62. "Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it."
    —Richard Whately
63. "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
64. "A year from now you may wish you had started today."
    —Karen Lamb
65. "One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast."
    —Robert Brault
66. "Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all."
    —Elle Luna
67. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
    —Walt Disney
68. "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
69. "Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you."
    —Lloyd Alexander
70. "In one minute you can change your attitude, and in that minute you can change your entire day."
    —Spencer Johnson
71. "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
    —Maria Robinson
72. "Rise up, start fresh, see the bright opportunity in each day."
    —Anonymous

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Funny Morning Quotes

73. "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
    —Kurt Vonnegut
74. A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.
    —Marcia Carrington
75. "There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it."
    —Mindy Kaling
76. "Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day."
    —Glen Cook
77. "I like my coffee black and my mornings bright."
    —Terri Guillemets
78. "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers."
    —Maya Angelou
79. "With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later."
    —Rick Riordan
80. "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
81. "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
82. "Today's goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness."
    —Nanea Hoffman
83. "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
84. "Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."
    —William Feather

Wrapping Up

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