“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Benjamin Franklin
Collection
100 Morning Quotes
A short introduction
Morning is a thin hour. The house is quieter. The phone is already hungry. A good line at the start of the day can set the tone before the noise arrives.
This page collects a hundred morning quotes — about light, work, gratitude, and beginning again. Some were written as prayers. Some were written as pep talks. A few are just honest about how hard it is to get out of bed and still be kind.
You can read them with coffee. You can put one on your lock screen. If you want a picture, generate a poster and pick the design that feels calm enough for 6 a.m.
There is no need to become a new person before breakfast. The useful morning quote is the one that helps you start, not the one that shames you for sleeping in.
Keep the author's name on whatever you share. Then go fill the day with something smaller and real.
A morning quote is not a personality. It is a hinge. Use it to open the day, then let the day be ordinary. If you want the words on your lock screen, generate a poster and pick the calmest of the four.
100 quotes
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
Will Rogers
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
Richard Whately
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
Rumi
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.”
E. B. White
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau
“When I first open my eyes in the morning, I say to myself: I will not be lazy, I will not become angry, I will not feel sorry for myself.”
Jack Kerouac
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day.”
Rumi
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
William Arthur Ward
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
Charles Dederich
“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start.”
J. B. Priestley
“Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath, smile, and start again.”
Paulo Coelho
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
Ralph Marston
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
Robert Frost
“i thank You God for most this amazing day.”
E. E. Cummings
“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
“Morning is the dream renewed, the heart refreshed, the spirit restored.”
Val Andrew Pringle
“The sun is new each day.”
Heraclitus
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today matters most.”
Jack Kornfield
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
Glen Cook
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.”
Yoko Ono
“The morning was a wretched time of day for him.”
Patrick Süskind
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.”
Steve Maraboli
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain
“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, I believe.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.”
William C. Hannan
“Now shall I walk, or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.”
W.H. Davies
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
Bernard Williams
“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
Henry Ford
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Never give in — never, never, never, never.”
Winston Churchill
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Keep moving forward.”
Walt Disney
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Muhammad Ali
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
Muhammad Ali
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men.”
Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
Muhammad Ali
“Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Muhammad Ali
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
Muhammad Ali
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
Muhammad Ali
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
Michael Jordan
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Tony Robbins
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Muhammad Ali
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become.”
Zig Ziglar
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese proverb
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
Chinese proverb
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
George Addair
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
Robin Sharma
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They are short lines meant for the first part of the day — waking, beginning work, and choosing a mood before the inbox does it for you.