41 Good Morning Quotes to Brighten Your Day

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.William Arthur Ward, Pennsylvania Avenue Methodist Church in Oklahoma City Star (May 17, 1963)

There it is, Wendy. Second star to the right and straight on till morning.Peter Pan, Peter Pan (1953)

You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.Sean Maguire, (to Will), Good Will Hunting (1997)

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, Counsels and Maxims (1851), (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., ed. 1895), Page 52

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

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 day that the sun rises. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988), Part One

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day (January 8, 1936)

There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.Anton Chekhov, Note-book of Anton Chekhov (B.W. Huebsch, ed. 1921), Page 140

The sun is new again, each day.Heraclitus, Fragments (Penguin Books, ed. 2003), Page 21

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. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.Og Mandino, A Better Way To Live (1990), Chapter XIII, Page 106

You’d be surprised how much you can accomplish before your eyes even get open in the morning.Baba Voss, (to Kofun), See, S1.Ep4: The River

The world needs people who wake up every morning wanting to conquer it.Alex Park, (to Morgan), The Good Doctor, S5.Ep11: The Family

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.Alex Hitchens, Hitch (2005)

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.Conrad Brean, Wag The Dog (1997)

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Journal (February 15, 1839)

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.Norman Vincent Peale, Three Complete Books (1992), Page 121

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it.Mary Pickford, Why Not Try God? (1935), Page 31

Do not say, “It is morning,” and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (1916), Section 235, Page 67

Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It’s called purpose. You’re alive for a reason. Don’t give up!Nitya Prakash, HOPE - HOLD ON PAIN ENDS (2022), Page 77

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.Jim Hopper, Stranger Things, S1.Ep1: Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers

The worst thing about our mornings? They always end.Joe Goldberg, You, S1.Ep5: Living with the Enemy

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, Sweet Thursday (1954), Chapter 20, Page 129

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855)

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897), Chapter 4

The light of morning decomposes everything.Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Part 2, Chapter 2

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.Henry David Thoreau, The Journal (April 20, 1840)

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)

What was bad yesterday is lot of fun today.Mademoiselle, Heaven Can Wait (1943)

When you find yourself sleepy in a morning, remember that business and doing service to the world is to act up to nature and live like a man.Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations (Walter Scott, ed. 1887), Page 126

You are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.William 'Will' Traynor, (to Lou), Me Before You (2016)

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.Emily Dickinson, Letter to Mrs. Edward Tuckerman (April, 1885)

It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat (1935), Chapter IV, Page 47

The Sun – just touched the Morning –
The Morning – Happy thing –
Supposed that He had come to dwell –
And Life would all be Spring!Emily Dickinson, Poem 232: The Sun - just touched the Morning -

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.Charlie Chaplin, Quoted in 'Chaplin's Heart, Aims Bared in S.F. Talk' by George P. West, San Francisco Call (November 11, 1922)

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, The Blank Book (2004)

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.Neil Gaiman, Coraline (2002), Chapter VI

At our age it’s enough surprise we’re still alive every morning.Corrado 'Junior' Soprano, The Sopranos, S5.Ep8: Marco Polo

We’ll be younger in the morning.Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, (Master's Wife: Aren't you broads a little old to be trick-or-treating?), Hocus Pocus (1993)

Good Moaning.Officer Crabtree, 'Allo 'Allo, S2.Ep4: Swiftly and with Style

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues (1987), Chapter 10, Page 51