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

How many times have you told yourself you’ll wake up early tomorrow?

I’m guessing countless times. Many of us have morning goals and usually they are not always so easy to achieve! It’s not easy to wake up early or to accomplish a lot during the first few hours of the day.

So we’ve tried to help with these good morning quotes which may help you get out of bed that bit earlier. Sometimes, all we need is a little push from wise words in order to achieve our goals. You can also make mornings better through small but very impactful practices. Consider practices like morning mantras, yoga and no emails before 9 am.

With some experimentation you’ll soon discover the perfect way to make your mornings lovelier than ever and with these hand-picked quotes, you’ll be inspired to do so. Here are the 90 best good morning quotes to kick start your day.

Top Good Morning Quotes

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

Maya Angelou

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

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day. Alice Morse Earle

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

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every time the sun rises. The Alchemist

It’s so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day. Louie Schwartzberg

The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it. Gene Amole

The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn. William C. Hannan

Wake in the morning with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Kahlil Gibran

I love that this morning’s sunrise does not define itself by last night’s sunset. Steve Maraboli

I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life. Elsie de Wolfe

Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them. Rumi

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light

Every day is a chance to change your life. Kush and Wizdom

Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath, smile and start again. Anonymous

The sun will rise and we will try again. Anonymous

Wake up! This world that you dream holds nothing to fear. Rumi

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder. Anonymous

What if every day is the perfect day to finally be exactly who you were always meant to be? Tyler Knott Gregson

Start everyday with an attitude of gratitude. Anonymous

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Everyday is a second chance. Anonymous

There’s never on sunrise the same or one sunset the same. Carlos Santana

PEACE is seeing the sunrise or a sunset and knowing who to thank. Anonymous

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

An attitude of gratitude brings great things. Yogi Bhajan

Everyday is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. Carrie Underwood

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C.S. Lewis

Rise & Slay. Anonymous

Today, be BRAVE. Walk faster than your fears…Don’t let what scares you stop you from living! Heather Stillufsen

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

CARPE DIEM. Seize the day.

Faith is the bird that feels the lights when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore

However long the night, the dawn will always break. African Proverb

May your day be filled with sugar, spice and all things nice! Anonymous

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

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

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman

I’m not a morning person. I drink coffee because morning people exist and they keep trying to talk to me. Nanea Hoffman

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Victor Hugo

These are the days that must happen to you. Walt Whitman

Today I am broken but tomorrow I could become someone’s universe. Gemma Troy

What’s broken can be mended, What’s hurt can be healed. No matter how dark it gets, the sun’s gonna rise again. Meredith Grey

You have a bad day, you go to bed, you wake up, and work a little harder. Michelle Obama

No matter what happens, the sun will rise in the morning. Barack Obama

Today, walk with courage in all that you do. Heather Stillufsen

You give me strength, You give me just what I need. And I can feel the hope that’s rising in me. It’s a good morning. Mandisa

Popular Good Morning Quotes

Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed. — Malak El Halabi

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

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

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

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. — Aristotle

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

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning – Meister Eckhart

The world is new to us every morning – this is God’s gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day. — Baal Shem Tov

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. – William Arthur Ward

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

Morning not only forgives, it forgets. – Marty Rubin

My future starts when I wake up every morning. – Miles Davis

Morning will come, it has no choice – Marty Rubin

We all make mistakes so instead of spending time dwelling on them, look to your mornings as a clean slate to start afresh. Time washes away everything in the end.

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

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

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

There’s a lesson in every silence – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Every day I feel is a blessing from God and I consider it a new beginning. Everything is beautiful. – Prince

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope – Bernard Williams

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 comes whether you set the alarm or not – Ursula K. Le Guin

The morning was full of sunlight and hope – Kate Chopin

I simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed – Sidney Poitier

If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning. – Larry Page

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

It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do – Jerome Lawrence

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

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night – Marilyn vos Savant

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen – Madeleine Albright

Every morning, look in the mirror and affirm positive words into your life. – Lailah Gifty Akita

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals – Lou Holtz

A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray – Marcia Carrington

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure – George Foreman

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained – Alexis Carrel

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off. – Bruce Willis

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

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