Good Morning Quotes and Images to Start Your Day Right! (2024)

Mornings are like nature in spring. They’re crazy busy — buzzing life, vitality, and enthusiasm. I LOVE mornings, and usually hit the floor running, eager to dive into the day. Inspiring Good Morning Quotes are a great way to start your day and help put that pep in your step!

I don’t turn on the news… I turn on positive, motivating, engaging and interesting audiobooks and podcasts while I’m getting ready. It doesn’t just make a difference, it makes all the difference. Fill your thoughts with Vitamin P* as one member of the iCreateDaily community — Shannon Schofield — calls positivity.

*NOTE: “Vitamin P for positivity”, not to be confused with the real vitamin P for rutin.😊

A Good Day Begins With a Good Night’s Sleep Whenever Possible

Studies show the deepest and best hours of sleep for most people occur between 10 pm and 2 am. A good morning begins with a good night’s sleep.
~DoctorOz.com

Morning Lark, Night Owl or Hummingbird?
20% of the population are morning larks, (waking up before 6 am without an alarm)
20% are night owls (often to sleep after 3am and up around 10 am)
60% are hummingbirds (somewhere in between)

Source: Dr. John Medina and BrainRules.net

It’s Your Day – Make the Most of It!

Even if you aren’t able to do what you’d prefer to be doing today, you can still choose to enjoy it. When you can’t do what you love, you can always find a way to love what you do… for love lives within you, and you’re a creator. Just like creativity, you can conjure it at will, with practice.

Decide to make the most of whatever is in your day and you can make it amazing. You’re in it, so you’re already halfway there. Enjoy!

If you find yourself faltering at any point, then just shore up your resolve with immersion in positivity and inspirational quotes. Also important, be sure to associate with positive people, because environment is powerful, and you want to immerse in elevating people, places and things.

If you want to challenge yourself and really set your own success rhythm, start your day with inspiration. You may wish to print or bookmark this page and read and reflect on one quote per day for the next 30 daysand notice what a difference it will make in your life.

A Daily Affirmation

Each Day a New Beginning

“What if I begin each morning with a sense of adventure?
For after all, today has never been before.

I shall greet this morning brightly and bravely.

‘Good Morning, You magnificent Day!
What wonders shall we discover?

What good shall we set in motion today?’”

~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Mornings are like nature in spring… humming with the sounds of life and the promise of a fresh new day!
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

“Each dawn contains the potential of the day, as each seed the potential of a plant… each child, the potential of a life… and each adult, an opportunity unfolding.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

“The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.”
~Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, biologist, author, 1873-1944

“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.”
~Rumi,a 13th-century Persian poet, 1207-1273

“My future starts when I wake up every morning.”
~ Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, composer, 1926-1991

“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
~ Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, composer, 1926-1991

“I simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”
~Sidney Poitier, American-Bahamian actor, b.2/20/1927

“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
~Aristotle, Greek philosopher, polymath taught by Plato, 384-322 BC

“The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.”
~Jocko Willink,American podcaster, author, retired US Navy SEAL, b.9/8/1971

“She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.”
~Tyler Kent White, poet, writer, explorer of the human condition

“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.”
~Marcus Aurelius, emperor, stoic philosopher, writer, 121-180 AD

I love a sunrise most… for the day yet to live, yet to love and yet to become.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
~Elbert Hubbard, American writer, publisher, artist, philosopher,1856-1915

“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, German philosopher, author, 1788-1860

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“At dawn, my heart expands with the glow of hope and horizon.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder iCreateDaily.com®

“Having a rough morning? Feel your heart. That’s your purpose of being alive.”
~Unknown

“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.”
~Kate Chopin, American fiction author

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
~Yoko Ono,a Japanese multimedia artist, author, singer, songwriter, b.2/18/1933

“When you meet a new day, take a deep breath and tell yourself, ‘ I am new in this day’.”
~Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian author

“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.”
~Unknown

“The dawn of each day is the dawn of new hope.”
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
~Mark Twain, writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, 1835-1910

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
~William Blake, English poet, painter, printmaker

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
~Wayne Huizenga, American businessman, entrepreneur, 1937-2018

“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life.”
~Elsie de Wolfe, actress, interior decorator, author, 1865-1950

“Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath, smile and start again.”
~Anonymous

“How will you open the gift of this day?”
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.
~William C. Hannan, Author

“I love that this morning’s sunrise does not define itself by last night’s sunset.”
~Steve Maraboli, Speaker, Author, Behavioral Scientist, b. 4/18/1975

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 time the sun rises.
~Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist, novelist, author, b.8/24/1947

The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.
~Gene Amole, author, radio, TV, news columnist, 1923-2002

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
~Mahatma Gandhi,Indian independence pacifist, author, 1869-1948

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”
~Alice Morse Earle, American historian author, 1851-1911

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 time the sun rises.
~Paulo Coelho, in The Alchemist, Brazilian lyricist, novelist, author, b.8/24/1947

Good Morning, Glorious Day!
“I hold you to my heart and breathe intention into your creation.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

“When you do something beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
~John Lennon, singer-songwriter, one of The Beatles

“Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy. But, Life salutes you when you make others happy.”
~Charlie Chaplin, English comic actor, filmmaker, & composer, 1889-1977

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
~Khalil Gibran,a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist

“I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.”
~Unknown

“The sprout is a superfood because it contains all the potency of the plant it is to become. So too the dawn of today. Inhale the fresh morning and exhale your dreams, into being. Make today super!”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder iCreateDaily.com®

“I drink a cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.”
~Debasish Mridha, physician, poet, author, philosopher

“I’m glad to be alivein a world where his gently awakening eyes nourish the morning sun.”
~Sanober Khan, Author – Turquoise Silence, poet, freelancer writer

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
~Henry David Thoreau,an American essayist, poet, philosopher

“The structure of daily creative routines leads to greater creative freedom and success.”
~Devani Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

“The dawn is never defeated by the night. The shadows across your path will not survive the sun of your hope.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

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“The structure of daily creative routines leads to greater creative freedom and success.”
~Devani Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist, death & dying studies & service, author, 1926-2004

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
~Buddha, spiritual teacher, founder of Buddhism c.480-400 BC

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, an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, 1895-1984

“At sunrise, the blue sky paints herself with gold colors and joyfully dances to the music of a morning breeze.”
~Debasish Mridha, physician, poet, author, philosopher

“It’s the process of showing up each day to do your work that makes all the difference. Pursue progress over perfection.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.
~Rumi,a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, mystic 1207-1273

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
~Mark Twain, humorist, writer, author, publisher, entrepreneur, 1835-1910

“Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms.”
~Lailah Gifty Akita, author, Ghanaian founder-Smart Youth Volunteers

“Pros create flow through daily practice.”
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
~Rumi,13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, mystic 1207-1273

“Renew your mind every morning with pure thoughts.”
~Lailah Gifty Akita, author, Ghanaian founder-Smart Youth Volunteers Foundation

“CREATIVITY:
Ideas rarely arrive in linear fashion. Rather, they sprout like weeds in spring determined to grow. Plant your best ideas in the fertile soil of daily effort.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.”
~Malak El Halabi, Lebanese poet, consumer behavior expert b.10/1/1992

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
~14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, b.Lhamo Thondup, 7/6/1935

What will you paint on the canvas of your day?
~LeAura Alderson, co-creator iCreateDaily.com®

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
~Steve Jobs, cofounder Apple Computer Co., 1955-2011

“Every day brings new choices.”
~Martha Beck, life coach, author, b.11/29/1962

“Don’t wait to for your day to happen to you. Happen to it. It’s your day.“
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
~Anne Frank, German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist,

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
~George Lorimer, American journalist, author, publisher, 1867-1937

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
~Meister Eckhart, German theologian, philosopher, c.1260-1328

Action and Inspiring Good Morning Quotes

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
~Napoleon Hill, speaker, author, 1883-1970

Change Quotes

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
~Rumi,a 13th-century Persian poet, 1207-1273

Create, Creators, and Creativity Quotes

“Good morning is not just a word, it’s an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right!”

~Fain Blake, (author bio not found; please advise if you know)

“It’s a new day! Now go create the world you long for… the world that already exists within you.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Dawn Quotes

MORNING HAS BROKEN
(excerpt)

Mine is the sunlight,
mine is the morning
Born of the one light,
Eden saw play

Praise with elation,
praise every morning
God’s recreation
of the new day.

Songwriters: Cat Stevens / Eleanor Farjeon

“Dawn’s gentle glow awakens the songbirds to sing the day to life.
Imagine if we all sang each day to life, how different our day might be.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Dreams and Morning Quotes

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
~Billy Wilder, Austrian-American film director, screenwriter, 1906-2002

Gratitude and Inspiring Good Morning Quotes

“Awaken with gratitude and the sun will rise in your heart and illuminate your day, come what may.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

“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.”
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, 121-180 AD

Great and Greatness Quotes

“Your day, your way, begins with your decisions in each moment.Don’t wait for great to happen to you. Don’t wait for others to gift it to you. Invite ‘Great’ to live with you and consult with it regularly.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Habits and Morning Quotes

“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, pen name of novelist Daniel Handler, b.2/28/1970

Habits create, inform and reinforce belief. Choose your habits wisely and put them to work for you, not against you.
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Humorous Good Morning Quotes

These next few for fun. I’m sure there are days that you are that cheerful one and others when you’re trying to avoid that cheerful one…?!?

“It’s not that I wasn’t a morning person, rather, it’s that my nights intruded into my mornings.”
~LeAura Alderson, writer, editor, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
~William Feather, American publisher, author, 1889-1981

Karma Quotes

“Life is like a mirror: it will smile at you if you smile at it.”
~Author unknown

Mornings Quotes

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, author, 1817-1862

Present, Past, and Future Quotes

“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.”
~Alice Morse Earle, American historian author, 1851-1911

Thoughts and Words Quotes

“The words you speakbecome the house you live in.”
~Hafiz, Persian poet, c.1320-1388

Wisdom Quotes

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
~Rumi,a 13th-century Persian poet, 1207-1273

“The day is the way!”
~iCreateDaily.com®

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