175 Good Morning Quotes for an Inspirational, Motivational and Positive Start to Your Day

Are you feeling tired and unmotivated this morning? Me too. To help us out, here are 175 of the most motivational, inspirational, and powerful good morning quotes. These quotes are meant to set a positive tone for your day, renew your energy and motivation, and help you go after your goals and dreams with focus. They also include some quotes that will make you laugh and release any stress or negative feelings you may have.

I hope you find something here to make today a happy, optimistic, and great day.

Inspirational Good Morning Quotes

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx

“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

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

“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is enormous power in nailing your morning routine, but there’s even more power in adapting to it when it doesn’t happen as we’d like.”
– Terri Schneider

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

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
– Mark Twain

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha

“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

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
– Flavia Weedn

“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.”
– Kristen Zambucka

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

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

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“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’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

“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours.”
– Monica Baldwin

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

“Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

“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

“Rise up, start fresh, see the bright opportunity in each day.”
– William C. Hannan

“Every morning is a fresh start. Wake up with a grateful heart.”
– Kristen Butler

“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

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

Motivational Good Morning Quotes for Work and School

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

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

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

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life.”
– Victor Hugo

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

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.”
– Tim Ferriss

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection.

But I'm more of a 'leave me alone until at least noon' kind of person." - Unknown “Maybe I could be a morning person, if mornings began after noon.” – Tony Smite

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” – Kurt Cobain

“Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.” – Punit Ghadge

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.” – Dorothy Parker

“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.” – Ann Landers

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.” – Groucho Marx

“You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.” – Bob Dole

“Sometimes I wake up and think I should start wearing a beret, but I don’t do it.” – Mitch Hedburg

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais

“I’m sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” – Frank Sinatra

“Everyone should experience a sunrise at least once a day.” – Phil Dunphy

“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” – Noel Coward

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

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I’ll be happy for the rest of my little life.” – Charlotte Eriksson

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.” – Thomas S. Monson

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” – Kiersten White

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” – Emily Dickinson

“Over everything, I choose you.” – Marissa Meyer

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber

“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” – Carroll Bryant

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” – Henry Wadsworth

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s OK with them.” – Alain de Botton

“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis

“I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.” – Pablo Neruda

“I never want to stop making memories with you.” – Pierre Jeanty

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks

“I have seen the best and the worst of you, and I choose both.” – Sarah Kay

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” – Zig Ziglar

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” – Walter Winchell

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakami

“How do you spell love? You don’t spell it. You feel it.” – A. A. Milne

“Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.” – Marty Rubin

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

“I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.” – Terri Guillemets

“I drink a cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.” – Debasish Mridha

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

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“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

“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 win in the morning, you win the day.” – Tim Ferriss

“Every morning is a beautiful morning.” – Terri Guillemets

“Your morning sets the tone for the day, so find some way to express gratitude, to set the right tone.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” – Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.” – Doe Zantamata

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain

“When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.” – F. Sionil Jose

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