100+ Good Morning Inspirational Quotes for Positivity

Top 140 Short Inspirational Quotes To Fuel Your Day


1.“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


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


3. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill


4. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb


5. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar



6. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden


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


8. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs


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


10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu







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


12. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray


13. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein


14. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh


15. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”- Steve Jobs




16. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin


17. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


18. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine


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


20. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg





21. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon


22. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama


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


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24. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu


25. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius


26. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry James





27. “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington


28. “Don’t worry about failures; worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”- Jack Canfield


29. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle




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


31. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn


32. “The best revenge is massive success.”- Frank Sinatra


33. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi


34. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”- Robert Schuller



35. “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown


36. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti


37. “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown


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38. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson


39. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley


40. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan






41. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein


42. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown


43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard


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


45. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Unknown


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


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47. “When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.” – Unknown


48. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill




49. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry S. Haskins


50. “Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.” – Unknown


51. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi






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


53. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost


54. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom


55. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers


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


57. “Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.”― Anasazi Foundation


58. “This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!”― Mehmet Murat ildan


59. “In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.”― Debasish Mridha


60. “I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when?”― Ashley Ormon


61. “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


62. “When you wake up every morning, let thanksgiving be your first thought.”― Lailah Gifty Akita


63. “It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.”― John Steinbeck


64. “Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.”― Gail Carson Levine


65. “You must wakeup in the morning thinking of things you could change in and about your life on a daily basis.”― Sunday Adelaja


66. “Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.”― Medeia Sharif


67. “No one can ever bring the morning back at midnight.”― Munia Khan


68. “The first few moments of the day are some of the most important as they can determine the mood for the rest of the day.”― Daniel Willey


69. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive– to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”― Marcus Aurelius


70. “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”― Sydney Smith



71. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” –Anonymous


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


73. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” –Robert Collier


74. “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” – George Washington Carver


75. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach


76. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”– Meister Eckhart


77. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer


78. “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


79. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville


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





81. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill


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


83. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis


84. “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


85. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun


86. “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


87. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington


88. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” – Rumi


89. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher





90. “The morning was full of sunlight and hope.” – Kate Chopin


91. “Today is a beautiful day and I will attract good things into my life.” – Unknown


92. “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”– Billy Wilder


93. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa


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


95. “A smile is the beauty of the soul.” – Lailah Gifty


96. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”– Anatole France


97. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani


98. “Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson


99. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker




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


101. “Happy thoughts are the only cure for a sleepy morning.. and I feel the happiest when I think about you!” – Unknown


102. “This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death.”

—Og Mandino


103. “Each good morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters most.”- Unknown


104. “The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for 40 years, supposed a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man’s life.”

—Philip Doddridge


105. “I love the smell of possibility in the morning.” – Unknown


106. “What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.”—Sarah Smiley


107. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day!” – Unknown





108. “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


109. “Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm.” – Unknown


110. “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”

—J.R.R. Tolkien


111. “Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” – Unknown


112. “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


113. “Let your soul expand, let your heart reach out to others…” – Unknown


114. “The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. When I wake to see that it’s light out already, I feel the world has started without me.”—Terri Guillemets


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


116. “Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”

—Richard Whately


117. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Unknown


118. Seize the day, whatever’s in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”—Lloyd Alexander


119. “Good Morning! It’s a brand new day…” – Unknown


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



121. “Each morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters most.” – Unknown


122. “Good morning is not just a word, its an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right!”  –Fain Blake


123. “Each sunrise gives hope to your dreams and light to your plans.”-William Ngwako Maphoto


124. “The sun is new each day.” –Heraclitus





125. “Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.” –Richelle E. Goodrich


126. “I’ve learned that a smile and good morning goes a long way, and saying thank you goes even further.”-Unknown


127. “With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.” –Unknown


128. “Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before.” – Jeb Dickerson


129. “Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.”-Jacques Cousteau


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


131. “Life is beautiful one day, one hour and one minute will not come again…” – Unknown


132. “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E.B. White


133. “This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou


134. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson


135. “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”-John Lennon


136. “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


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


138. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” –Henry David Thoreau


139. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”-Aristotle


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

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