60 Inspiring Morning Quotes

There's something truly magical about mornings. They represent new beginnings, fresh starts, and the promise of opportunities yet to unfold. Whether you're a morning person who relishes the quiet dawn or someone who needs a little extra push to get moving, the right words can set the tone for your entire day. In this post, we’ve gathered a curated collection of the top 60 inspiring morning quotes designed to uplift your spirit, energize your mindset, and help you begin each day with a burst of positivity. Let these words of wisdom infuse your mornings with purpose and inspiration.

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

8. “I am not a morning person.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

9. “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

10. “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

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

12. “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

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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

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. “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

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

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

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

27. “Outside the open windowThe morning air is all awash with angels.” - Richard Wilbur

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

29. “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

30. “Perhaps Sadness will use the shimmering wings of the morning kissed with dew and promise to sail away, and the dark Heart of the Night will rush headlong into the blinding light of the Day, to kiss it full and hard upon the mouth and embrace life's brilliance once more...” - Gloria Smith

31. “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

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

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

34. “I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.” - Janet Frame

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

36. “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

37. “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

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

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

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

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

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

46. “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

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

48. “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

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

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

51. “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

52. “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

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

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

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

56. “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

57. “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

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

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