Have a positive start to the day, which increases your chances of remaining happy throughout the day
Increase your focus, memory, and awareness
Be more productive at work
Be more present with your loved ones
If we can refer to a motivating thought at a second’s notice, we can think positive thoughts that will lift our spirits to take on our day properly.
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. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
7. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
8. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
9. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
10. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
11. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
12. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
13. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”- Steve Jobs
14. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
15. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
17. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
18. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
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
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. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
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
31. “If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.” – Tim Ferriss
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
41. “I am thankful for all 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
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. “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
54. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
55. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
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
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. “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” — Robert Kiyosaki
70. “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”― Sydney Smith
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
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
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
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. “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
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’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” – John C. Maxwell
108. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
109. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
110. “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”—J.R.R. Tolkien
111. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
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. “Every morning is a new arrival.” – Rumi
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. “I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, “aw shit, he’s up!” – Steve Maraboli
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.” – Zig Ziglar
118. Seize the day, whatever’s in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”—Lloyd Alexander
119. “Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.” – Dwayne Johnson
120. “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”—Emily Dickinson
121. “Each morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
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. “You get to decide today if life is happening to you or for you.” – Rachel Hollis
127. “Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.” – Rumi
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
130. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
131. “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of the day most people have breakfast.”
– Robert Brault
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
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. “The best way to make your dream come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery
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. “One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted.” – Paulo Coelho
165.“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis
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
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
186. “To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.” – Nabil Toussi
187. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama
188. “The morning is a great time to give thanks for the many blessings you have.” – Byron Pulsifer
189. “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
190. “If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day.” – Elon Musk
191. “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
192. “The miracle lies in the newness of a morning.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
193. “Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.“ – Arnold Schwarzenegger
194. “Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.” – Harvey Mackay
195. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
196. “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” —Angelita Lim
197. “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
198. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” –Audrey Hepburn
199. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
200. “Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” —Elvis Presley
201. “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall
202. “It’s always better when we’re together.” —Jack Johnson
203. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
204. “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” —Ben Folds
205. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
206. “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
207. “Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.” ― Michael Ondaatje
208. “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” ― William Feather
209. “It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” ― Colin Powell
210. “Each morning is the open door to a new world – new vistas, new aims, new tryings.” ― Leigh Mitchell Hodges
211. “We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.” ― Judi Dench
212. “Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.” ― Gertrude Stein
213. “Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.” ― Henry David Thoreau
214. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” ― Mark Zuckerberg
215. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
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