150 Good Morning Quotes For Your Top Of The Morning Day

Every morning brings the promise of a new chance at life. To correct yesterday’s mistakes, to restart your goals and dreams, or to continue the good that you started on your path to success.

All you need to put a smile on your face is the promise of a new day, basking in the glow of the morning sun. While restful sleep and unicorn dreams are not guaranteed, you can always count on creating a calm and blissful start to your day.

Whenever you’re feeling down, need some motivation, or simply want to start your day with positivity and wisdom, here are 150 Good Morning quotes for a top-of-the-morning day. So you can put your mind at ease, find words of encouragement, and get a new day started.

150 Good Morning quotes

Best morning motivation quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Something special awaits you each day. All you need is to recognize it and make the most of it. Have a positive attitude throughout the day and then that today is going to be the best day of your life.
– Unknown

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 sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.
– S. Ajna

The morning is good because we remember that no matter what went wrong the previous days, we just got a perfect opportunity to rewrite history and do better.
– Unknown

Make each day your masterpiece.
– John Wooden

There are so many reasons to be thankful every day.
– Unknown

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
– Dr. Seuss

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

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

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

In one minute you can change your attitude, and in that minute you can change your entire day.
– Spencer Johnson

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

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
– J.M. Power

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

Mornings are like nature in spring… humming with the sounds of life and the promise of a fresh new day!
– LeAura Alderson

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

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
– Marilyn Vos Savant

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 – then make that day count!
– Steve Maraboli

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be Happy that you woke up this morning.
– D. L. Hughley

Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care, and celebrate.
– Amit Ray

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

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
– William Arthur Ward

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
– Zig Ziglar

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
– Henry David Thoreau

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
– Bernard Williams

Good morning motivational quotes

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

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

Rise up, start fresh see the bright opportunity in each day.
– Unknown

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

I’ve got nothing to say but it’s okay, good morning, good morning.
– The Beatles

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

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
– Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

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

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

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
– Prince

Every morning is destiny’s way of telling you that your purpose in life is yet to be fulfilled.
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.
– Charles M. Schwab

Look out of the window and take in the brightness from the sun. Forget the clouds and shadows of doubt and fear. Life awaits you in all its fullness; it’s another beautiful day. Good Morning!
– Ron Manchester

Every morning is a beautiful morning.
– Terri Guillemets

Be happy. Be bright. Be you. Have a great day.
– Unknown

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
– Miles Davis

Believe that you are beautiful and have what it takes to move mountains, and you’ll move mountains. Don’t allow yourself to be let down by what others say. Get up and do what you can do best. Good morning.
– Unknown

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
– Ralph Marston

All the treasures of the morning belong only to those who go out and start life in the earliest hours of the morning while everyone is still asleep!
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

The biggest sources of motivation are your own thoughts, so think big and motivate yourself to win. Good morning.
– Unknown

This message is to remind you that you are beautiful, talented and one of a kind. No one can stop you from doing anything that is on your mind. Good morning.
– Unknown

Think about the dreams you had last night to make your lazy morning a beautiful one.
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Life is the most valuable and precious of all gifts. So, enjoy every moment of it joyfully. Don’t miss out on most of it by sleeping too late. Have an amazing day!
– Unknown

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.
– French Proverb

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
– Tecumseh

The only way you can respect your dream is to get out of bed and do something about it.
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

There is nowhere morning does not go.
– Leah Hager Cohen

The sun is new each day.
– Heraclitus

Funny morning motivation quotes

Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.
– Nanea Hoffman

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, “Good morning, God,” and the other is to say, “Good God, morning!
– Fulton J. Sheen

Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.
– Tony Smite

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

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
– Ursula K. Le Guin

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 Nunez

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

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

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.
– Ernie Banks

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

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

I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.
– Terri Guillemets

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

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

I find that checking my phone [in the morning] tramples over my positive vibes, because we all know that checking messages is like rattling a wasp nest.
– Stephanie Lee

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

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

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
– Mindy Kaling

It is a myth that you need to rise and shine to have a good start to a day. You can roll around in bed thinking about friends like me and you will still have a great start to the day.
– Unknown

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
– Shirley Chrisholm

Every single day I wake up and make up my mind that I am going to work really hard. Then my mind laughs at me and says “Good joke.” Then we laugh for some more time and I go back to bed.
– Gehenna Toss

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
– Jim Davis

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

Morning will come, it has no choice. – Marty Rubin

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.
– Dean Martin

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.
– James Marsden

There are two kinds of people in this world: 1. Morning people. 2. People who want to shoot morning people.
– Unknown

Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.
– Marlo Thomas

The man with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’
– Will Rogers

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
– William Feather

People who say “Good morning” should be forced to prove it.
– Unknown

I always say “Morning” instead of “Good Morning”. If it were a good morning, I would still be asleep in bed instead of talking to people.
– Unknown

Coffee; because bad mornings deserve a second chance.
– Unknown

Morning life motivation quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
– Walt Disney

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

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
– Abraham Lincoln

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

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston S. Churchill

Don’t make an effort to rush off into the morning, listen to the earth rouse from sleep and you’ll understand how perfect life is designed to be.
– Unknown

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
– Gillian Anderson

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

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

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. Kinkley

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
– J.R.R. Tolkien

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.
– Donald L. Hicks

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
– Aly Raisman

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

It’s a brand new morning! The day is a blank canvas yet to be painted with the colors of life. Seize the day!
– Unknown

This morning will never ever come back in your life again. Get up and make the most of it.
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

It is never too late to be what you might have been. Today is the day to be.
– Unknown

Wake up and face life’s challenges head-on. Else, life will become quite a challenge.
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.
– Joyce Meyer

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

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.
– Alexis Carrel

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

Morning self-motivation quotes

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’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
– Larry Page

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
– Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
– Kevyn Aucoin

I have learned over the years that the nicest thing I can do is to just say to myself, “It’s a good day to have a good day.
– Unknown

A little step may be the beginning of a great journey. Good Morning.
– Unknown

The greatest inspiration you can ever get is to know that you are an inspiration to others. Wake up and start living an inspirational life today.
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

Every day is a fresh start – a new chance to make things happen.
– Unknown

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.
– Jocko Willink

This is not just another day, this is yet another chance to make your dreams come true.
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
– Nicole Scherzinger

It’s a new day! Add in the positive thoughts, subtract out the negative energy. Make it all equal one fantastic day!
– Unknown

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

If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for.
– Antonio Brown

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
– Colin Powell

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
– James Russell Lowell

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
– Robert Orben

Why the need for morning motivation

Motivation is the reason we want to start, continue, or stop doing something. It is a strong desire to plan and act in order to accomplish a goal. Finally, motivation is an internal factor that encourages you to continue working toward your goal.

It is for this reason that motivation is an important component for going after your goals and achieving success.

Without motivation, there is no drive within you to keep doing what you do for an intended purpose. There will be no fire or excitement to start something new. And you will find there’s nothing strong enough to make you want to break a bad habit.

Because the plan, action, and journey toward achieving something require hard work, blood, sweat, tears, and more tears. You must have a very strong reason or motivation to continue and overcome the ridicule, loneliness, misunderstanding, obstacles, and failures that will come your way.

Also because the journey is long and you may occasionally find yourself taking the wrong turn or being led astray, you will need to stay connected to your motivation. And, yes, your motivation, like a battery, needs to be recharged.

For this reason, you will need to get a dose of daily motivation each morning, if you must, so you don’t falter and lose sight of your goal in life.

How to motivate yourself in the morning

Morning is the time of day when you can restart your day. A clean slate.

Once you reset, there should be no room for the defeat of yesterday, only learning. Alternately, there should be no hangover from the victory because today is a new day to conquer, experience, and enjoy.

And the actions you take to start your day, particularly what you do first thing in the morning, set the tone for the rest of the day. As a result, it is important that you avoid a chaotic and stressful morning because it increases the likelihood that your day will be the same.

You must plan and prepare to be motivated in the morning. Especially if you are not a morning person like me. With a few simple changes, you can create a calm and organized morning for yourself.

A motivated morning charges you up and prepares you to face another day that will bring you closer to success. So here are some helpful pointers for motivating yourself in the morning:

Don’t hit the snooze button. By pressing the snooze button, you may oversleep or disrupt your sleep cycle. Both of these factors can increase your chances of feeling tired during the day.
Drink water first thing in the morning. After a dehydrating night’s sleep, your body requires plenty of water to rehydrate. You will need water to rehydrate your body and get you ready for the day. Keeping a glass or bottle of water near your bed serves as a reminder to drink as soon as you get out of bed.
Take in the early morning sunlight. “If sunlight reaches your eyes soon after you wake up,” says Dr. Huberman of the Huberman labs podcast, “it triggers a neural circuit that controls the timing of the hormones cortisol and melatonin, which affect sleep.” That means better sleep, better rest, and better energy and clarity for the day ahead.
Exercise. Exercising and stretching have been scientifically proven to release the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, which help to improve mood and long-term memory. So, working out in the morning is a natural way to increase your energy and improve your mood.
Spend some time planning and organizing your day ahead. This will give your day meaning and keep it from running you instead of the other way around.
Dress in clothes that make you feel good for an extra boost of confidence. It will also help to have a capsule wardrobe of items that fit you, are comfortable, and make you look great to avoid decision fatigue early on.
Make a morning mantra for yourself. Save a line or two from the quotes in the list above so that you can use the power of words to help you start the day encouraged.

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