175 Good Morning Quotes for an Inspirational, Motivational and Positive Start to Your Day

Are you tired this morning? A bit unmotivated or maybe slightly unfocused?

Me too.

So to help us out with that I’d like to share 175 of the most motivational, inspirational and powerful good morning quotes.

To help you set a positive tone not just for the morning but for your whole day. To renew your energy and motivation so you can go after your goals and dreams fully focused.

And to release some of your stress and negative feelings with quotes that’ll make you laugh.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a happy, optimistic and great day.

Inspirational Good Morning Quotes

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx

“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

“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.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is enormous power in nailing your morning routine, but there’s even more power in adapting to it when it doesn’t happen as we’d like.”
– Terri Schneider

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

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

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

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha

“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

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

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
– Flavia Weedn

“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.”
– Kristen Zambucka

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

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

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“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

“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day, I find something creative to do with my life.”
– Miles Davis

“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours.”
– Monica Baldwin

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

“Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

“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

“Rise up, start fresh, see the bright opportunity in each day.”
– William C. Hannan

“Every morning is a fresh start. Wake up with a grateful heart.”
– Kristen Butler

“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

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

Motivational Good Morning Quotes for Work and School

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

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

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

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life.”
– Victor Hugo

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
– Wayne Huizenga

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

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.”
– Tim Ferriss

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
– Lao Tzu

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
– David Allen

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media.”
– Caroline Ghosn

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

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

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

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Positive Good Morning Quotes for a Great Start to Your Day

“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

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Front-loading my day (getting a whole bunch done in the morning) is my productivity secret.”
– Celeste Headlee

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
– Maya Angelou

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
– John Steinbeck

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

“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

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

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill

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

“Morning not only forgives, it forgets.”
– Marty Rubin

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
– Drew Barrymore

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
– John F. Kennedy

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

Funny Good Morning Quotes to Start the Day with Hilarious Humor

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.”
– Timur Vermes

“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

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
– Glen Cook

“There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.”
– Kristen Chandler

“I love the early hours of the day. It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.”
– James Lileks

“I hate when I dream of alarm clocks going off.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”
– James Marsden

“Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.”
– Tony Smite

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.”
– Kurt Cobain

“Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.”
– Punit Ghadge

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker

“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”
– Ann Landers

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”
– Groucho Marx

“You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.”
– Bob Dole

“Sometimes I wake up and think I should start wearing a beret, but I don’t do it.”
– Mitch Hedburg

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.”
– Ricky Gervais

“I’m sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”
– Frank Sinatra

“Everyone should experience a sunrise at least once a day.”
– Phil Dunphy

“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.”
– Noel Coward

“Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.”
– Marlo Thomas

Good Morning Quotes for Him or Her (Romantic Love Messages)

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I’ll be happy for the rest of my little life.”
– Charlotte Eriksson

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
– Kiersten White

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

“Over everything, I choose you.”
– Marissa Meyer

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
– James Thurber

“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi

“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s OK with them.”
– Alain de Botton

“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
– David Wilkerson

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.”
– Pablo Neruda

“I never want to stop making memories with you.”
– Pierre Jeanty

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“I have seen the best and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
– Sarah Kay

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.”
– Walter Winchell

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami

“How do you spell love? You don’t spell it. You feel it.”
– A. A. Milne

Happy Good Morning Quotes

“Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.”
– Marty Rubin

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

“I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.”
– Terri Guillemets

“I drink a cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.”
– Debasish Mridha

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

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

“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

“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

“If you win in the morning, you win the day.”
– Tim Ferriss

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

“Your morning sets the tone for the day, so find some way to express gratitude, to set the right tone.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
– Will Rogers

“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 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

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”
– Doe Zantamata

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
– Mark Twain

“When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.”
– F. Sionil Jose

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

“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

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

“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
– Prince

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
– William James

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”
– Albert Einstein

“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

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”
– Lou Holtz

Short Good Morning Quotes

“The most important thing I do each morning is steady myself by not allowing a sense of urgency to penetrate.”
– Matthew Weatherley-White

“The sun is new each day.”
– Heraclitus

“When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Every sunrise is an invitation to arise.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day.”
– Marcia Carrington

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

“Every day brings new choices.”
– Martha Beck

“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
– Marty Rubin

“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.”
– Spencer Johnson

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

“Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm.”
– Lao Tzu

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“There is no way to be perfect and no fun in being perfect.”
– Alicia Keys

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”
– Mary Oliver

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

“Today is a gift. Unwrap it with joy and gratitude.”
– Anonymous

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
– Anne Frank

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

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

“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
– E. E. Cummings

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

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali

Want more inspiration and motivation for your morning? Then check out these positive quotes for life, the short happy quotes in this post, this one filled with hard work quotes and also this post with hilarious work quotes.