Let’s be honest, not everyone loves mornings. Some days, the alarm clock feels like the ultimate enemy and the thought of tackling a new day can be… less than exciting.
When the only thing more tempting than sleep is hitting the snooze button for the fifth time, a little inspiration can go a long way.
That’s where a good quote comes in.
A few powerful words can completely shift your mindset from “just five more minutes” to “okay, let’s do this.” IMO, it’s one of the simplest forms of self-care.
So, I’ve gathered 75 of my favorite good morning quotes to help you kickstart your day with a little more positivity and purpose.
Inspirational Good Morning Quotes
- “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
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “Rise up, start fresh, see the bright opportunity in each day.”
- “Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.” – Nanea Hoffman
- “For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.” – Amit Ray
- “You are a rare gem, an exclusive, a limited edition. There is only one of you!”
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Every morning is a beautiful morning.” – Terri Guillemets
- “Let your soul expand, let your heart reach out to others.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “The world is full of beautiful things, just like you.”
- “Your journey will be much lighter and easier if you don’t carry your past with you.”
- “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama
Motivational Good Morning Quotes
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.”
- “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “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
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
- “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change anything in your life.” – Hal Elrod
Positive Life 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
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “Today, be the badass you were too lazy to be yesterday.”
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
- “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.” – Richard Whately
- “The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.” – William C. Hannan
- “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
- “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga
- “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis
- “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” – William Blake
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
Wisdom Good Morning Quotes
- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.” – Ovid
- “The morning was full of sunlight and hope.” – Kate Chopin
- “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” – Dalai Lama
- “Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.” – Jim Carrey
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “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
- “Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work.” – Gisele Bündchen
- “In one minute you can change your attitude, and in that one minute, you can change your entire day.” – Spencer Johnson
- “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
- “If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” – Larry Page
- “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” – Rumi
- “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams
- “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
Funny Good Morning Quotes
- “Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- “I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.”
- “My routine is to get up and be brilliant. But I’m always late, so I just get up.”
- “Today’s forecast: 99% chance of coffee.”
- “I wake up with a good attitude every day. Then idiots happen.”
- “The G in ‘Good Morning’ is silent.”
- “I could be a morning person, if morning happened around noon.”
- “I think I’m allergic to mornings.”
- “Keep the dream alive: hit the snooze button.”
- “Some mornings I wake up and think, ‘I can’t do this.’ Then I remember my bills, and I’m like, ‘I can totally do this.'”
- “Coffee: because adulting is hard.”
- “My morning coffee makes me feel like I got my life together. I don’t, but it feels like it.”
- “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” – Glen Cook
- “I woke up today. It was a mistake.”
- “I need a day between Saturday and Sunday.”
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Your Morning, Your Choice
So there you have it—75 good morning quotes for every possible mood. Whether you need inspiration, motivation, a dose of positivity, or just a good laugh, there’s something here for you.
My challenge to you? Pick one that resonates, write it down, and stick it on your mirror or desk. See how starting your day with intention changes things. Let me know which one is your favorite!
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