Morning is here.

Maybe you feel a bit sluggish. Overwhelmed by the day in front of you. Or you just need a jolt of positive energy and motivation for work this morning.

To help you out with that I want to share 130 of the most powerful, motivational, funny and inspirational short good morning quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a positive morning and a happy and successful day.

Positive Short Good Morning Quotes to Start the Day Right

“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

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha

“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

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
– Paul Henderson

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
– Mark Twain

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
– Yoko Ono

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
– Cary Grant

“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

“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Every day brings new choices.”
– Martha Beck

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

“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

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.”
– Kate Chopin

“I used to love night best, but the older I get, the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.”
– Terri Guillemets

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi

Short and Motivational Good Morning Quotes for Work

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
– Richard Whately

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Horace Lorimer

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
– Lao Tzu

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
– Wayne Huizenga

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
– Larry Page

“One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.”
– Robert Brault

“The sun has not caught me in bed in 50 years.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
– Robert Orben

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

Short Good Morning Quotes for Love (Romantic Messages for Her or Him)

“Just one look at you, and I know it’s gonna be a lovely day.”
– Bill Withers

“The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know, and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.”
– Joseph Moran

“Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings.”
– Jagdish Joghee

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

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I’ll be happy for the rest of my little life.”
– Charlotte Eriksson

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“When the sun came up… I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.”
– Tom Hanks

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love…I love…I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
– Mr Darcy (from the book Pride and Prejudice)

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“For each new morning, let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.”
– Amit Ray

“Over everything, I choose you.”
– Marissa Meyer

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

“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

Funny and Short Good Morning Quotes

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
– Jim Davis

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

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

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
– Mindy Kaling

“Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.”
– Tony Smite

“I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time.”
– Janet Frame

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

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”
– Groucho Marx

“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”
– Nanea Hoffman

“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.”
– Lewis Black

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker

“Sometimes I wake up and think I should start wearing a beret, but I don’t do it.”
– Mitch Hedburg

“Morning will come. It has no choice.”
– Marty Rubin

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
– Winston Churchill

“I need to get up; my coffee needs me.”
– Unknown

“Getting up early is the first step in the wrong direction.”
– Unknown

“Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.”
– Punit Ghadge

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
– Robert Heinlein

“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
– David Lynch

“Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, ‘Awe s***, they’re up.’”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Today is a new day. It’s a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the ‘same crap, different day’ lie!”
– Steve Maraboli

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
– Jean Kerr

Short, Deep and Beautiful Good Morning Quotes

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
– Drew Barrymore

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world.”
– Mary Oliver

“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

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.”
– Rumi

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

Short, Unique and Meaningful Good Morning Quotes

“When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
– John Lennon

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
– Larry King

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“Start early to get ahead.”
– Mark Twain

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
– William Arthur Ward

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time.”
– Andrew Matthews

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
– Wayne Dyer

“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.”
– Ovid

“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.”
– Jim Carrey

“I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?”
– Oscar Nunez

“The morning is good because we have seen the light, and life and peace.”
– Baal Shem Tov

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein

“The morning shines upon everyone the same. Its beauty comes from the fact that we all take in the same beauty.”
– Juansen Dizon

“Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.”
– Marty Rubin

“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
– Prince

“Wake up each day and live as if it were your last.”
– Hal Erod

“Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.”
– Unknown

“Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.”
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

“The world is new to us every morning – and every man should believe he is reborn each day.”
– Baal Shem Tov

“Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“The morning is good because we remember that no matter what went wrong the previous days, we just got a perfect opportunity to rewrite history and do better.”
– Unknown

“Every morning is a fresh start. Wake up with a grateful heart.”
– Kristen Butler

Want more inspiration and motivation for your morning and day? Then check out these inspirational good morning quotes, the positive quotes for life in this post and the short happy quotes here. Plus, this one filled with hard work quotes and also this post with lots of hilarious work quotes.

A new morning is here.

And to help you to make it a good one even though you may at first feel a bit unmotivated or tired I’d like to share 125 of the most inspirational, funny and positive good morning quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that will help you to start your day on an uplifting note. With a laugh or two to release some stress.

And to recharge your energy so you can go after your goals and dreams with renewed motivation and make this a successful day.

Positive Good Morning Quotes for a Great Start to Your Day

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi

“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

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
– Paul Henderson

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Every day brings new choices.”
– Martha Beck

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
– Mark Twain

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
– Yoko Ono

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

“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

“When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
– John Lennon

“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

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Every morning is a beautiful morning.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson

Positive and Motivational Good Morning Quotes for Work

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
– Billy Wilder

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Horace Lorimer

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
– Lao Tzu

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
– Richard Whately

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life.”
– Victor Hugo

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.”
– Barack Obama

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
– David Allen

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

Funny and Positive Good Morning Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”
– Nanea Hoffman

“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
– Jim Davis

“Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning, the devil says, ‘Awe shit, they’re up.’”
– Dwayne Johnson

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?”
– Oscar Nunez

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

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

“Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.”
– Tony Smite

“I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning, and there I am, just laughing my head off.”
– Bruce Willis

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
– Cary Grant

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
– Robert Orben

“I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.”
– Terri Guillemets

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.”
– Ernie Banks

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker

Beautiful and Positive Good Morning Quotes Filled With Inspiration

“I used to love night best, but the older I get, the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.”
– Kirsten Zambucka

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
– Bruce Lee

“My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.”
– Mavis Staples

“The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.”
– S. Ajna

“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
– Larry King

“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.”
– Jim Carrey

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
– Larry Page

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

Positive Good Morning Quotes for Him or Her (Cute Messages of Love & Support)

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
– Kiersten White

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I’ll be happy for the rest of my little life.”
– Charlotte Eriksson

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

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s OK with them.”
– Alain de Botton

“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“I never want to stop making memories with you.”
– Pierre Jeanty

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.”
– Walter Winchell

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
– Wayne Dyer

“How do you spell love? You don’t spell it. You feel it.”
– A. A. Milne

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
– Thomas S. Monson

Short and Positive Good Morning Quotes and Sayings

“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“One day you will wake up, and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
– William Arthur Ward

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
– Colin Powell

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
– Mother Teresa

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– Charlie Chaplin

“In one minute, you can change your attitude, and in that minute, you can change your entire day.”
– Spencer Johnson

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset, and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it.”
– Cheryl Strayed

“The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the Sun, and burn.”
– William C. Hannan

“Morning not only forgives, it forgets.”
– Marty Rubin

“Someday is not a day of the week.”
– Denise Brennan-Nelson

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
– J.M. Power

Want more inspiration for your morning and day? Then check out these short good morning quotes, the funny good morning quotes here and also these uplifting and motivational quotes of the day.

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.

When you first awake, be mindful and take a second to think about what a privilege it is to simply be alive and relatively healthy. Breathe onto the bathroom mirror just to see how amazing your breath looks. The moment you start acting like life is a blessing, I assure you it will start to feel like one. And when you start the day in a mindful state like this, it’s easier to focus more effectively on what matters most.

If you’d like to practice starting your mornings more mindfully in the weeks ahead, below you will find 52 good morning quotes. I choose one new quote roughly once a week and then I sit quietly for two minutes in the morning, repeating it silently in my mind as if I were meditating. I also write it on a sticky note and put it up in my work space for the duration of the week. This weekly ritual has helped reduce unnecessary stress in my life by reminding me to keep things simple, peaceful, and in perspective. Perhaps this practice can add value to your life too, for the rest of the year and beyond…

1. The secret to being grateful is no secret. You choose to be grateful. Then you do it again and again, every day. When you forget, begin again.

2. If you worry too much about what might be, and wonder too long about what might have been, you will ignore and completely miss what is.

3. You don’t know what the future will bring, so your best strategy for living is to make the best and most positive use of the present.

4. Two things, more than anything else, define you daily: Your patience when you are struggling, and your attitude when you are not.

5. Patience is not about waiting — it’s the ability to keep a positive attitude while working hard for what you believe in.

6. It’s not selfish to enjoy life. What’s selfish is to insist on being negative despite all the positive possibilities available to you.

7. Before you waste it on anger, resentment, spite or envy, think of how precious and irreplaceable your time is today.

8. You may be exhausted. You may be discouraged. You may feel uncomfortable. No matter what, your best option is to move forward one tiny step at a time.

9. Those times when you don’t feel like being positive are the times when choosing to be positive makes the biggest difference.

10. It’s impossible to accomplish what you assume you cannot do. Be careful not to become a prisoner of your own negative assumptions.

11. If you truly wish to improve your self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth, stop allowing other people to be responsible for them.

12. Your track record for getting through hard days is 100% so far.

13. When you fail to get what you want, consider that it just might be a blessing in disguise, enabling you to have something even better, soon.

14. Use your struggles and frustrations today to motivate you rather than annoy you. You are in control of the way you look at life.

15. What may seem like a setback is really an opportunity for you to learn something new, and develop a more effective, more realistic strategy.

16. Again and again, remind yourself why. With a strong enough reason why, you will be able to do what’s required at any time and in any circumstance.

17. Be determined and ambitious, but not out of a desperate sense of need — do it out of a love for the possibilities. Appreciate your journey.

18. Do your thing with passion and integrity even if folks don’t notice you. We do what we do not for an applause, but because we know it’s right.

19. If the grass looks greener on the other side… Stop staring. Stop comparing. Stop complaining and start watering the grass you’re standing on.

20. When you are lost in worry it’s easy to mistake your worries for reality, instead of recognizing that they are only thoughts.

21. Whatever your challenge is, worrying about it won’t help. Either do something to address it, or do something to move past it.

22. Unless you let go of what’s behind you, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you accept that it’s over… you cannot move forward.

23. Most people make themselves unhappy simply by finding it impossible to accept life just as it is presenting itself right now.

24. You can’t calm the storm. What you can do is calm yourself, and the storm will gradually pass.

25. Nothing is permanent. When you understand this, you can do almost anything you wish because you’re not trying to hold onto everything anymore.

26. The most powerful changes happen when you take control of what you do have power over, instead of craving control over everything you don’t. (Read “The Untethered Soul”.)

27. Too often we see ourselves as the past victim, rather than the creator of our present situation. This is why our life is so difficult to change from one moment to the next.

28. When you are no longer able to change a situation, you are challenged to change yourself. And that changes everything.

29. Being grateful in life doesn’t mean everything is perfect; it often means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

30. Your life will improve only when you take small chances, and the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be honest with yourself.

31. It’s not what you say to everyone else that determines your life; it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the greatest power.

32. Awareness is not just noticing what’s going on around you, but what’s going on within you as well. (Keep your eyes open and your Self in mind.)

33. Be careful about who you give the microphone and stage to in your life, especially when times are tough. Don’t just listen to the loudest voice. Slow down and listen to the truest one.

34. Don’t let someone who has done nothing tell you how to do your thing. Don’t let small minds convince you that your ideas and dreams are too big.

35. You can’t base your ideas of success and happiness on other people’s opinions and expectations.

36. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly again.

37. Don’t be scared to walk alone down the path less traveled, and don’t be scared to appreciate every minute of it.

38. Wherever your heart is — wherever your truth is — that’s where you will find your reason to smile.

39. Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning today. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where life’s true magic is waiting.

40. You can’t be afraid to have certain conversations. It’s better to talk and find out, than to keep going and get nowhere. Communication is key.

41. No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a peaceful way to live, and a beautiful legacy to leave behind.

42. Changing the world doesn’t necessitate earth-shattering feats, but rather doing small things with great love. Think simple and consistent, not spectacular.

43. Our days are always happier and more fulfilling when we give people around us a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.

44. Don’t judge someone harshly just because they’ve made different mistakes than you have.

45. When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.

46. Set an example. Do your best to treat people with kindness and respect, even those who are momentarily rude to you — not because they are nice, but because you are.

47. Be thankful for all the rude, obnoxious, and difficult people you meet in life. They serve as important reminders of how NOT to live.

48. There are no permanent jobs on this planet. We are all interning here. Learn from everyone, remain humble, and don’t forget to have some fun along the way.

49. There’s no such thing as a self-made person. Someone else believed, encouraged, and invested in you. Be grateful and be that someone for others when you can.

50. Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in your journey one day at a time.

51. Every day is a new beginning; treat it that way. Stop thinking about what could have been and start looking at what can be starting today. (Marc and I discuss this in more detail in the “Passion and Growth” chapter of “1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently”.)

52. Right now it all starts over. The possibilities ahead are endless. Be strong enough to let go, wise enough to move forward, diligent enough to work hard, and patient enough to wait for what you are gradually earning.

Now it’s your turn…

What’s one additional quote or personal reminder that has given you some extra peace and clarity in life? Please share it with us by leaving a comment below.

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