Life & Living: Good Morning Quotes

Start your day with gentle encouragement and a clear mind. This collection of good morning quotes highlights fresh beginnings, gratitude, and the simple joy of new light. Whether you seek motivation or a calm reset, the words here invite focus and optimism. Browse sentiments from classic voices and contemporary reflections that celebrate possibility. Use them to greet the day, share with friends, or set a positive intention before you step into your routine.

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears"

James Herriot, Writer

"When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run"

Katarina Witt, Athlete

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"I am not a morning person"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day"

Dalai Lama, Leader

Dalai Lama

"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

Lindsay Lohan

"So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day"

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Leader

"I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, you have the morning papers, you know, it's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I like getting up early. I get up around five"

Marilu Henner, Actress

Marilu Henner

"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong"

John Cheever, Writer

"I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up"

Jackson Browne, Musician

Jackson Browne

"That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms"

Jim Davis, Cartoonist

"It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion"

Herman Hesse, Author

"But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible"

Jean Kerr, Playwright

"I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble"

Glen Campbell, Musician

"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience"

Moss Hart, Playwright

"I might have to go on breakfast TV, which would mean getting up early"

Nik Kershaw, Musician

"I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"I'm not really a morning person"

Steve Burton, Actor

"To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right"

Steve Carlton, Athlete

"Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn"

Mary Higgins Clark, Author