Today I’d like to share 101 timeless quotes that will help you to have a good and motivated morning.
Because how you start your day tends to set the tone for the rest of the day.
If you start your day with negativity and in a hurried and stressed state then that’ll likely continue for the rest of the day and impact your work, relationships and overall quality of life that day.
If you on the other hand start your day in a positive way with some uplifting reading or a fun conversation around the breakfast table and then get started with your most important task of your day as soon as you arrive at work then you’re setting a much better tone for your whole day.
So if you need some motivation to get started on the right foot on a dreary or tired morning – or your day just got off to a rocky start and you need some inspiration to turn that around – keep reading.
You may also find these posts filled with deep quotes and with quotes on never giving up helpful.
Uplifting Quotes to Help You to Have a Good Morning and Day
In this first part of the post I’d simply like to share some of my favorites that help to motivate me and set the right mindset for my morning.
And if you want more motivation to start moving and accomplish your goals and dreams then check out 27 Smart and Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself.
“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“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 first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
“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
“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
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
– Billy Wilder
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi
“Every day brings new choices.”
– Martha Beck
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Horace Lorimer
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
– Mark Twain
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson
“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha
“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
– Bruce Lee
“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“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
“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
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“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.
Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.
Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”
– Kristen Zambucka
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
Motivational Quotes on Making Your Morning a Productive One
A couple of my favorites from this section that I always tend to keep in mind are the ones by Olin Miller, Karen Lamb and Lao Tzu.
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“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
– Richard Whately
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
– David Allen
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days—which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod
“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. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.”
– Victor Hugo
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“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
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb
Inspiring Quotes for Those Extra Tough Mornings and Days
Sometimes mornings, days and life is just rough and tough.
I find that these quotes can be both comforting and motivating at such times and they help me to keep worries and negativity away.
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
– Colin Powell
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.”
– Les Brown
”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
– John Burroughs
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
“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
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin
“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
– Drew Barrymore
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspiring Quotes on the Relationships and Love in Your Life
Few things can so powerfully lift us up and keep motivating us as the love and relationships – both with others and ourselves – in our lives.
So here are two handfuls of my favorite quotes on that for you as you start your morning.
“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
“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
– Thomas S. Monson
“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
“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia
“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
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
– Anthony Robbins
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
– Andrew Matthews
“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
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”
— Kristen Neff
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
— Wayne Dyer
What’s your favorite quote that helps you to start your morning and day in a good way? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your life in the comments section below.
