60 Inspirational Morning Quotes

Every morning is a fresh start, a new opportunity to set the tone for the day ahead. Whether you're looking to kickstart your morning with positivity, find motivation to pursue your goals, or simply enjoy a moment of reflection, a well-chosen quote can provide the inspiration you need. We've curated a collection of the top 60 inspirational morning quotes that are sure to uplift your spirits and help you embrace the day with enthusiasm and purpose. Dive into these words of wisdom and let them ignite your mornings with positivity and motivation.

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

2. “One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / the waiting non-arms of a snake, / its tan beaded-bag skin / studded with black diamonds.Up it coiled to speak to me a eye level. / Imagine! that sleek finger / rising out of the land's palm / and coiling faster than a Hindu rope. / The thrill of a bull snake / startled in the morning / when the mesas lie pooled / in a custard of light / kept me bright than ball lightning all day.Praise leapt first to mind / before flight or danger, / praise that knows no half-truth, and pardons all.” - Diane Ackerman

3. “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

4. “In the morning I get out of bed, I brushmy teeth, I wash my face, I get dressed in the clothes I like best.I want to be good to myself.” - Matthew Dickman

5. “I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.” - Shannon Hale

6. “He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.” - Walter de la Mare

7. “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

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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)” - Stephen Clarke

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

13. “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

14. “I love the smell of book ink in the morning.” - Umberto Eco

15. “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

16. “I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.” - Roman Payne

17. “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

18. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” - Meister Eckhart

19. “How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” - Arthur Conan Doyle

20. “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

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

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

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

24. “Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.” - Charles Dickens

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

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

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

28. “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

29. “A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.” - Marcia Carrington

30. “I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day approached the completion of its first half) was becoming damp and misty. Heavy clouds moved from the north and were invading the top of the mountain, covering it with a light brume. It seemed to be fog, and perhaps fog was also rising from the ground, but at that altitude it was difficult to distinguish the mists that rose from below and those that come down from above. It was becoming hard to discern the bulk of the more distant buildings.” - Umberto Eco

31. “Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.” - Laura Anne Gilman

32. “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

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

34. “I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.” - Criss Jami

35. “Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.” - Emma Thompson

36. “There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.” - Kristen Chandler

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

38. “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” - Glen Cook

39. “It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.” - E.T.A. Hoffmann

40. “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

41. “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

42. “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

43. “It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise” - Todd Stocker

44. “Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.” - Gail Carson Levine

45. “It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.” - Italo Calvino

46. “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

47. “Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.” - Patricia Briggs

48. “Nature awakens each day in brilliant autumn colors, making me wish the pale winter would bid adieu.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

49. “She wasn’t crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he’d seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn’t that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother’s life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.” - Francesca Lia Block

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

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

52. “...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

53. “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.” - Sydney Smith

54. “New days should be greeted like new lovers and babies toddling along a table looking back to make sure we’re watching.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

55. “Morning"SUNThat awakens ParisThe highest poplar on the bank On The Eiffel TowerA tricolored cockSings to the flapping of his wingsand several feathers fallAs it resumes its course The Seine looks between the bridgesFor her old routeAnd the Obelisk That has forgotten the Egyptian words Has not blossomed this yearSUN” - Vicente Huidobro

56. “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

57. “Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff ‘sweet hope’ from it.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

58. “The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspended in the air, sediment in a pond. My head felt like a sack of pulp. Still in my nightgown, damp from some fright I'd pushed aside like foliage, I pulled myself up and out of my tangled bed, then forced myself through the usual dawn rituals - the ceremonies we perform to make ourselves look sane and acceptable to other people. The hair must be smoothed down after whatever apparitions have made it stand on end during the night, the expression of staring disbelief washed from the eyes. The teeth brushed, such as they are. God knows what bones I'd been gnawing in my sleep.” - Margaret Atwood

59. “We are living in a ‘one morning’ world; we get up one morning and many things have changed! Tomorrow morning, there will be another ‘one morning!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

60. “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