36 Morning Quotes For Inspiration

Starting your day on a positive note can set the tone for everything that follows. One simple yet powerful way to inspire a productive and happy morning is through uplifting quotes that ignite motivation and encourage optimism. We've carefully selected the top 36 morning quotes to inspire you, helping to infuse your mornings with a burst of positivity and clarity. Whether you're gearing up for a busy day ahead or simply looking for a mental boost, these quotes are sure to provide the inspiration you need.

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

2. “Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.” - Vera Nazarian

3. “In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.” - Leslie Connor

4. “I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.” - John Kennedy Toole

5. “Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.” - Kami Garcia

6. “There is nowhere morning does not go.” - Leah Hager Cohen

7. “To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!” - J.R.R. Tolkien

8. “If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.” - Erin McCarthy

9. “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—then make that day count!” - Steve Maraboli

10. “In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.” - Ernest Hemingway

11. “Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge. ” - Reif Larsen

12. “The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.” - Sarah Addison Allen

13. “You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.” - Tom Robbins

14. “Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.” - John Steinbeck

15. “Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.” - Roman Payne

16. “She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.” - Richelle Mead

17. “Is this your holiday homework?" asked Sarah. "Don't do it, Rose! And Eve will write you a note to say it's iniquitous to give eight-year-olds homework. You will, won't you, Eve?""I could never spell 'iniquitous,' Sarah darling!""Hot concrete," said Rose mournfully, prodding her porridge."Write this," ordered Saffron. "'The ancient Egyptians are all dead. Their days are very quiet.' Porridge is meant to look like hot concrete. Eat it up.... Read the next question!"..."What would you say if you bumped into Tutankhamen in the street?""'Sorry!'" said Sarah at once. "Put that.""We have to answer in proper sentences.""'Sorry, but it was your fault! You were walking sideways!” - Hilary McKay

18. “So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.” - Virginia Woolf

19. “Dracula is a morning person compared to me.” - Kim Dallmeier

20. “The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” - Harriet Beecher Stowe

21. “It's a finger snapping kind of day.” - Jamie Weise

22. “The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.” - Tom Hanks

23. “You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.” - Remez Sasson

24. “One of the few times in a man's life when he is not full of shit!!The morning of a colonoscopy. Enough said!” - Jim Lawrence

25. “We love the morning, because we know that there will be night soon! We love the night, because we know that there will be morning soon! Who loves the morning if there shall be no night? Who loves the night if there shall be no morning?” - Mehmet Murat ildan

26. “As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.” - Markus Zusak

27. “On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.” - Edward Conlon

28. “Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.” - Henry David Thoreau

29. “You know you love him when you can't sleep at night and get up early to talk to him the next morning.” - Kayla Carson

30. “Happily Ever After starts every time you woke up.” - T.A

31. “When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love” - Marcus Aurelius

32. “A horrible night might be hidden in a beautiful morning!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

33. “...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...” - John Geddes

34. “...at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...” - John Geddes

35. “Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!” - Steve Maraboli

36. “In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.” - Patrick Carman