This collection of good morning quotes are a great, motivating way to start the day.
If you, or someone else, need a little extra boost of motivation this morning then these words are perfect. They dwell on new potential, overcoming struggles and the encouragement of positive words. To remind us all that today is a fresh, new day full of possibilities.
Motivational Good Morning 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
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” John Steinbeck
“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
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” Bernard Williams
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” William Arthur Ward
“There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.” Charles M. Schwab
“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.” Harvey Mackay
“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
“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
“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
“You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.” Victoria Monet
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.” Charles Dickens
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” Steve Jobs
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” George Horace Lorimer
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” Colin Powell
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.” Robin S. Sharma
“Inspiration can come from anywhere, and a lot of the time, it depends on how you feel when you get up in the morning.” Tyler Shaw
“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 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
“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
“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
“Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.” Marsha Sinetar
Inspirational Good Morning Quotes About Life and Struggles
“The sun is new each day.” Heracl*tus
“It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.” Jerome Lawrence
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” John Burroughs
“I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I’d see.” Dick Cheney
“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.” Tec*mseh
“Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.” Regina Brett
“When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.” Lynda Resnick
“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
“No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.” D. L. Hughley
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