100 Good Morning Quotes to Kick Off a Happy Day

Good morning quotes

1. “The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

2. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

3. “Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.” —Amit Ray

4. “Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5. “The only thing I know for sure about today is coffee. Everything else is wild speculation.” —Nanea Hoffman

6. “It doesn’t matter what you did or where you were, it matters where you are and what you’re doing.” —Steve Maraboli

7. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” —Elbert Hubbard

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

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

11. “I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what’s possible.” —Oprah Winfrey

12. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Edison

13. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” —William Blake

14. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier

15. “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

16. “Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time with it.” —Yoko Ono

17. “Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” —Fran Drescher

18. “The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: Do not the birds set us the example?” —Charles Spurgeon

19. “Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night’s sleep.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

20. “What is love?… It is the morning and the evening star.” —Sinclair Lewis

Positive good morning quotes

21. “Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don’t rush encounters with coworkers, family and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today … Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach

22. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” —Chuck Swindoll

23. “It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” —Colin Powell

24. “I think we can choose to be happy in our lives. We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?'” —Margaret Trudeau

25. “Don’t fuss about trifles. Don’t permit little things—the mere termites of life—to ruin your happiness.” —Dale Carnegie

26. “The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t.” —William Arthur Ward

27. “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.” —Steve Jobs

28. “All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it.” —Eileen Caddy

29. “Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.” —Miranda Hart

30. “Our goal should be that we’re going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.” —Joel Osteen

31. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” —Cassandra Clare

32. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams of in your heart.” —Roy T. Bennett

33. “All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

34. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” —Carl Rogers

35. “Always laugh when you can. It’s the cheapest medicine.” —Wolfgang Riebe

36. “Happiness is an immunity.” —Sylvia Townsend Warner

37. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” —Willie Nelson

38. “Everyone runs into naysayers, but if you love something enough and feel passionately enough, you just go on ahead, walk around the person saying it, proceed down the road and don’t look back.” —Jennifer Higdon

39. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne

40. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” —Marcus Aurelius

41. “Life is a movie, and you’re the star. Give it a happy ending.” —Joan Rivers

Morning inspirational quotes

42. “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.” —Steve Maraboli

43. “If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you—like a fever.” —Sam Walton

44. “If you know who you are, and you keep that in mind at all times, and not let that get away from you to sacrifice your principles, your values, your true self. Because if you’re true to you, then life will be true to you.” —Dolly Parton

45. “Surviving is important, but thriving is elegant.” —Maya Angelou

46. “A balance and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one’s everyday existence.” —Tenzin Gyatso, the 14^th Dalai Lama

47. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland

48. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.” —Helen Keller

49. “When you get in a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and the place the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe

50. “Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.” —Norman Vincent Peale

51. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” —Vince Lombardi

52. “Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn’t even know existed.” —Jodi Picoult

53. “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

54. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir

55. “I think that’s how sometimes it can be in life, many things can happen, and you can be disappointed. Then the next day is a new day and something good can happen.” —Daniil Medvedev

56. “We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that.” —Demi Lovato

57. “The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.” —Bob Black

58. “Love yourself first and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” —Lucille Ball

59. “It’s all a process, steps along a path. Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.” —Michelle Obama

60. “With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.” —Rumi

61. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” —Victor Hugo

62. “Whatever you want in your life, other people are going to want too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.” —Diane Sawyer

Morning motivational quotes

63. “Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.” —Orison Swett Marden

64. “Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden

65. “The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.” —Leo Tolstoy

66. “As you work towards your goals today, tune into your underlying motivations and ask yourself: Am I focusing all my energy on a happy tomorrow to the detriment of today?” —Lori Deschene

67. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” —Julia Child

68. “Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?” —Jon Kabat-Zinn

69. “Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.” —Amy Poehler

70. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” —Beverly Sills

71. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” —Benjamin Spock

72. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein

73. “And what’s the point of waking up in the morning if you don’t try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?” —Don DeLillo

74. “If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.” —Jim Carrey

75. “You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.” —Hal Elrod

76. “We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.” —Les Brown

77. “While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.” —Mattie Stepanek

78. “Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!” —Og Mandino

79. “Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: Take a nap.” —Mary Anne Radmacher

80. “Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.” —Brian Tracy

Good day quotes

81. “You’re off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So … get on your way.” —Dr. Seuss

82. “There’s only us, there’s only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way. No day but today!” —Jonathan Larson

83. “When life gives you Monday dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” —Ella Mills

84. “Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.” —Harvey Mackay

85. “Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.” —Thich Nhat Hanh

86. “On a day when you’re tired, it’s important to just say good morning to everyone so they’re kind of aware that it’s gonna be a good day.” —Lindsay Lohan

87. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a brand new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” —J.B. Priestley

88. “Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.” —Regina Brett

89. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We only have today. Let us begin.” —Mother Teresa

90. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” —Marthe Troly-Curtin

91. “Forever is composed of Nows.” —Emily Dickinson

92. “Life isn’t about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it’s about the journey and the opportunities for learning—and how we grow as a result.” —Michael Eisen

93. “Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.” —Pauline Kael

94. “You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.” —Zig Ziglar

95. “There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” —Alexander Woollcott

96. “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” —Benjamin Franklin

97. “No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.” —Louise Hay

98. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe

99. “You can’t make a cloudy day a sunny day, but [you] can embrace it and decide it’s going to be a good day after all.” —Jane Lynch

100. “I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. But I want to focus on what I can do, not on what I cannot do. So help me God. I know this day will never be repeated. I know I cannot live it over again. Help me to live it to its fullest.” —Ed Dobson

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