Top 35 Good Morning Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them.”

— Carmelo Anthony

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams

2. “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”

— Billy Wilder

3. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Rumi

5. “A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.”

— Marilyn Vos Savant

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

— Richard Whately

7. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Children

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Also featured in: Personal Growth Quotes

9. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

— William Blake

Also featured in: Sleep Quotes, Quotes About Night

10. “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

11. “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

— William Arthur Ward

12. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

— Henry David Thoreau

13. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

— Meister Eckhart

Also featured in: Quotes About Acting

14. “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

15. “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 XIV

Also featured in: Gratitude Quotes

16. “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”

— George Washington Carver

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

— Glen Cook

Also featured in: Monday Quotes

18. “A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”

— Honoré de Balzac

19. “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”

— Mark Twain

20. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.”

— Maya Angelou

21. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Colin Powell

23. “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.”

— Daniel Handler

Also featured in: Important Quotes

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Simplicity Quotes

25. “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

— Ray Bradbury

26. “Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

27. “I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Sleep Quotes, Heaven Quotes

28. “The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Quotes About Light, Quotes About Stars

29. “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

30. “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

31. “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”

— Tecumseh

Also featured in: Uplifting Quotes

32. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

33. “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

34. “Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.”

— Rose Kennedy

Also featured in: Sleep Quotes

35. “That’s the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they’d be like, ‘Yeah, big deal. I’d eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you’re pulling down.’”

— Jim Carrey

36. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Listening

37. “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.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes

38. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Birthday Quotes

39. “I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.”

— Robert Duvall