This collection of morning quotes is perfect for anyone looking for the right way to begin their day with meaningful words as their guide.

Start your day off on the right foot each morning with these beautiful good morning motivational quotes.

How we begin our day sets a tone for how our entire day will go – we want it to be on a positive note.

What better way to do that than with an encouraging thought or quote of the day?

Below is a list of over 100 inspirational, wise, and positive good morning quotes to start your morning off right.

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Best Good Morning Quotes To Get You Started

1. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

2. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar

3. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

4. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

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

6. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

7. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

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

9. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

10. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

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11. “Rise up, start fresh see the bright opportunity in each day.” – Unknown

12. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

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13. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

14. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

15. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

16. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

17. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

18. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius

19. “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington

20. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

21. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

23. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

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24. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

25. “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown

26. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”– Denis Waitley

27. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.”– Albert Einstein

28. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

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29. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

30. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

31. “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do.” – Lucas (Rory Cochrane, Empire Records)

32. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Unknown

33. “When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.” – Unknown

34. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

35. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry S. Haskins

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36. “Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.” – Unknown

37. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

38. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

39. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

40. “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” – William Prescott

41. “You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” – Winston Churchill

42. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

43. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

45. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

46. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

47. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

48. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

49. “You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.” – Henry David Thoreau

50. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

Inspirational Good Morning Quotes about success

51. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

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

53. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

54. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

55. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Tim Ferriss

56. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach

57. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

58. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar

59. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player

60. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam

61. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

62. “The dreamers are the saviors of the world.” – James Allen

63. “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren

64. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan

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65. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

66. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

67. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

68. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath

69. “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” – Ted Williams

70. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

71. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

72. “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff

Inspirational Good Morning Quotes about dreams

73. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester

74. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau

75. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley

76. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

77. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

78. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

79. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”– Joseph Joubert

80. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

81. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

82. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

83. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

Inspirational Good Morning about greatness

84. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

85. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry James

86. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

87. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

88. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

89. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

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

93. “Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

95. “I wake up every morning thinking…this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There’s no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.” – Anita Roddick

96. “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” – George Washington Carver

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

98. “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

99. “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy. But, Life salutes you when you make others happy.” – Charlie Chaplin

100. “Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Good morning quotes to give you inspiration

101. “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
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102. “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

103. “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

104. “Every morning, leave your worries outside your gate because that’s where they pick up the garbage! Have a worry-free day! Rise and shine.” – Bar Refaeli

105. “To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” – Sidney Poitier (see more Sidney Poitier quotes)

106. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” – Rumi

107. “I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.” – George Foreman

108. “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams

109. “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

110. “I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.” – Terri Guillemets

Good morning quotes to enrich life

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

112. “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.” – Henry Ward Beecher

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

114. “On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.” – Henry David Thoreau

115. “Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.” – Harvey Mackay

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

117. “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson

118. “Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.” – W. C. Fields

119. “Joyful morning, good morning, good day.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

122. “Let your smile change the world but don’t let the world change your smile.” – Unknown

123. “Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” – Samuel Butler

124. “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” – Emily Dickinson

125. “The early morning has gold in its mouth.” – Benjamin Franklin

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

127. “Every day brings new choices.” – Martha Beck

128. “My future starts when I wake up every morning.” – Miles Davis
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129. “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

130. “Let today be the day you give up who you’ve been for who you can become.” – Hal Elrod

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131. “The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.” – John Milton

132. “If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.” – Les Brown

133. “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather

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

135. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

136. “Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.” – Publilius Syrus

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

138. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart

139. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

140. “This is your daily morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.” – Unknown

Good morning quotes to bring out the best in you

141. “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”—J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

144. “Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”—Abraham Joshua Heschel

145. “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

146. “Seize the day, whatever’s in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”—Lloyd Alexander

147. “Today, many will choose to leave the ghost of yesterday behind and seize the immeasurable power of today. Why not you?”—Steve Maraboli

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

149. “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.”—William Blake

150. “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”—Maya Angelou

151. “This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death.”—Og Mandino

152. “It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning.”—Gordon B. Kinkley

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153. “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.”—Paulo Coelho

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

155. “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

Good morning quotes to inspire success

156. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

157. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

158. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” – Anthony Robbins

159. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.” – David Brinkley

160. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

161. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Unknown

162. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

163. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

164. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar

165. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

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166. “Courage is one step ahead of fear.” – Coleman Young

167. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

168. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

169. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” – J.M. Barrie

170. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington

171. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

172. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

173. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion.” – Simon Sinek

174. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels

175. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

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

177. “Every sunrise is a new opportunity. Don’t miss it and wait for it to come back. Wake up and go enjoy the sun. Good morning.” – Unknown

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

179. “Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”- Unknown

180. “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

181. “Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.” ― Madeline Bridges

182. “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

183. “A positive day will reap into a positive life. A successful day will reap into a successful life. Good morning.”- Unknown

184. “I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.” – Drake

185. “If you haven’t been able to achieve something, today is the best time to start working towards it again.”- Unknown

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186. “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

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

188. “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

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

190. “Today, walk with courage in all that you do.” – Heather Stillufsen

191. “Create the life you can’t wait to wake up to.” — Josie Spinardi

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

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

194. “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

195. “The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness.” – William Shakespeare

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196. “Recognize that throughout this beautiful day,you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.”  – Steve Maraboli

197. Because this day,

this wonderful,

beautiful,

glorious day

just wouldn’t be complete

without a little,

or a lot, of

glitter”

― Lisa Schroeder

198. “…a soft inward look came into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day.”  – Sarah Porter

199. “Let the Morning Sky shade be your favourite colour!”  – Somya Kedia 

200. “What a splendid pleasure is to say good morning to the morning sun!”  – Mehmet Murat ildan 

201. “G’morning and a kiss on every letter in your blessed name.”  – Lin-Manuel Miranda

202. “May the sun at sunrise make you smile, showing you that another day begins.”  – Abraham Schneersohn 

203. “The rising sun gives you the hints to make the day great.”  – Amit Ray

204. “Good Morning! Wake up and smile like the morning sun.”  – Debasish Mridha 

205. “As the blinding lights of heaven in a slow march approach, to caress the earth to wake her up, I too would like to be a part of the legacy by wishing you, “Happy Good Morning”.”  – Harshada Pathare

Which of these good morning quotes will you wake up to?

These beautiful good morning quotes are meant to help you start your day with the right mindset and to truly have a good morning. Pick one – or two – to remind yourself that each day is a chance to do something great.

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