123 Positive Morning Quotes to Start Your Day
Mornings are a fresh start, a chance to set the tone for the day ahead.
That’s why we’ve gathered all the best positive morning quotes to inspire your next post.
We also have uplifting and cheerful sayings to start your day on the right note.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Positive Morning Quotes
“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.” J. R. R. Tolkien
“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.” Kate Chopin
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” Erich Fromm
“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 love that this morning’s sunrise does not define itself by last night’s sunset.” Steve Maraboli
“Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.” Harvey Mackay
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart.” Anthony T. Hincks
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
“You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.” Shawn Achor
“A morning is a wonderful blessing, either cloudy or sunny. It stands for hope, giving us another start of what we call Life. Good morning & have a nice day.” Ikram Uzzal
“Life begins each morning.” Joel Olsteen
“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.” Thích Nhất Hạnh
“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
“When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.” Victoria Abril
“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
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.” Virginia Woolf
“Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune, and gave her nature’s most healing balm.” Louisa May Alcott
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” Larry Page
“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
“I care less about my wake-up time than about the number of hours slept.” Rachel Binx
“It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.” Naval Ravikant
“Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat: “Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.”” Gina Rodriguez
“She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.” Tyler Kent White
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.” Monica Baldwin
“I hope you wake up feeling exceptional. You are important, needed, and unique.” Mama Zara
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” Robert Frost
“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there.” Shelley Long
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” Leo Buscaglia
“Be the morning in everyone’s eyes and make their day turn into a thing of beauty.” Anthony T. Hincks
“I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?” Oscar Nunez
“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” Shiv Khera
“Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning.” Ecclesiastes
“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
“If I can feel like the chaos [of the day ahead] is at least known, I can dive in with more composure.” Wendy McKennon
“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
“Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others.” Dalai Lama
“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
“It is 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
“In the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like ‘You have really pretty eyes.’ That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence.” Jennifer Love Hewitt
“Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” Robert Brault
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” Prince
“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
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” Emily Dickinson
“I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” Jeb Dickerson
“These morning practices are what fuel me; keeping my routine is not about willpower.” Jenny Blake
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“There is something magical about the early morning. It’s a time when the world belongs to only those few who are awake. And we walk around like kings while others remain unseen in their beds.” Shawn Blanc
“Eating right and taking the time to slow down and plan in the morning is crucial to a productive day.” David Moore
“Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, whose short refresh upon tender green, cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show and straight is gone, as it had never been.” Samuel Daniel
“I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.” Terri Guillemets
“If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.” Mary Lou Retton
“When you’re positive, good things happen.” Deep Roy
“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” Roy T. Bennett
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” Dalai Lama
“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” Paulo Coelho
“When you do something 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
“Turn every life situation into a positive one.” Rhonda Byrne
“I’ve found that the first thirty minutes of my day have the biggest impact on how I feel for the rest of my waking hours.” Molli Sullivan
“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
“For many years, my morning routine was a result of how other people expected me to show up. I was overwhelmed and off-center because I was ignoring the messages my body was sending me.” Amber Rae
“When I’m tempted to skip my morning routine or another form of self-care, I remind myself that I can better serve the people I love and the projects I care about when I start with me.” Courtney Carver
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” Glen Cook
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” Jenny Blake
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” Colin Powell
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” Richard Whately
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” Buddha
“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
“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” Elbert Hubbard
“Let the morning keep what belongs to the morning.” Marie Rutkoski
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” Meister Eckhart
“Morning not only forgives, it forgets.” Marty Rubin
“In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.” Ernest Hemingway
“The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring.” Emily Dickinson
“The sun is new each day.” Heraclitus
“Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, this day let me make a sound beginning.” Thomas Kempis
“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
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” Bernard Williams
“I wake to sunlight’s morning caress and beautiful, soft shine.” Terri Guillemets
“Morning is the dream renewed, the heart refreshed, earth’s forgiveness painted in the colors of the dawn.” Kent Nerburn
“When things are good, there’s nothing like getting up in the morning, issuing that press release and watching the stock pop.” Joseph Kalinowski
“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
“The world is new to us every morning and every man should believe he is reborn each day.” Baal Shem Tov
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” Billy Wilder
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.” Carl Sandburg
“You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart.” Carole King
“To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.” Cornel West
“No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.” D. L. Hughley
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” Dalai Lama
“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” Gertrude Stein
“The longest way must have its close, the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.” Harvey Mackay
“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau
“Tis always morning somewhere, and above. The awakening continents, from shore to shore, Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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
“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
“Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With the charm of earliest birds.” John Milton
“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
“No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew.” Lulu
“It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person, beguiled, enchanted.” Mary Ellen Chase
“It is a serious thing, just to be alive, on this fresh morning, in this broken world.” Mary Oliver
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.” Mary Oliver
“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.” Nelson Mandela
“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on a new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.” Og Mandino
“Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.” Og Mandino
“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” Og Mandino
“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.
“Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.” Paulo Coelho
“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” Paulo Coelho
“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Outside the open window, the morning air is all awash with angels.” Richard Wilbur
“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.” Sarah Addison Allen
“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” Sidney Poitier
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.” Tecumseh
“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.” Thomas S. Monson
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” William Arthur Ward
