Morning Quotes and Sayings

Morning Quotes

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising.... It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. ~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. ~Henny Youngman

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. ~Richard Whately

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957

I’d like mornings better if they started later. ~Author Unknown

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? ~Thornton Wilder

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning — and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either. ~John J. Welsh

Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~Monica Baldwin

The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown

I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

You can only come to the morning through the shadows. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

’Tis sweet as the day begins to dawn,

When the lark her song is singing,

To wander at will through the grassy lawn

Where fresh flowers around are springing.

’Tis sweet at that solemn hour to go

O’er the rocky slope, all alone,

Where the scattering streamlets freely flow...

’Tis well to inhale the earthly gale,

As it sweeps the green hill’s side...

Or to look on the wood in its leafy pride,

In the glen or on the grove, the dawn is fair,—

Morning is beautiful every where!

~Thomas Furlong, "Morning Meditations"

I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. ~Joanne Sherman

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren’t for the rise-and-shine requirement. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose

From out night’s gray and cloudy sheath;

Softly and still it grows and grows,

Petal by petal, leaf by leaf...

~Susan Coolidge, "The Morning Comes Before The Sun"

When once thy day shall burst to flower,

When once the sun shall climb the sky,

And busy hour by busy hour,

The urgent noontide draws anigh...

~Susan Coolidge, "The Morning Comes Before The Sun"

Just before dawn I have the world all to myself. ~Terri Guillemets

...this pause of rest,

This morning hush before the sun.

~Susan Coolidge, "The Morning Comes Before The Sun"

What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness. ~Sarah Smiley

And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul. ~Sarah Smiley

It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul. ~Sarah Smiley

The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

 

   

 

Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up. ~Argosy

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night. ~Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life. ~Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "Rebecca," The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c., 1833

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment. -Thích Nhất Hạnh

Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb

He would certainly have started earlier, but he wanted to avoid the moon, whom he could no more marry to the sun than he could their respective children to each other,—namely, night-thoughts and morning-thoughts. For when the morning-clouds envelop man in their dew, when the loving birds dart noisily through the gleaming mist, when the sun looms forth out of the hazy glow, then does man, quickened in spirit, press his foot more deeply into the earth, and cling with new ivy-twigs of life more firmly to his planet. ~Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography, translated from German by Charles T. Brooks, 1865

"Life is too short," she panicked, "I want more." He nodded slowly, "Wake up earlier." ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

[L]et light

Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring

The honey’d dew that cometh on waking day.

O radiant morning...

~William Blake (1757-1827), "To Morning"

The day shall not be up so soon as I,

To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

~William Shakespeare

Every morning is a beautiful morning. ~Terri Guillemets

Find peace in the morning rush and you will have a good day. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. ~Thomas Jefferson

The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer.... When I wake to see that it’s light out already, I feel the world has started without me. ~Terri Guillemets

Experience has decided that the early morning air is much more inspiring and vigorous than the evening. What is the law? Is not the atmosphere, like all other substances and tissues, spoiled of its energy by the action of light and heat? Does it not, like the vegetable and animal kingdom, require rest? After a night’s rest it is recruited and young again. ~John Pulsford, Quiet Hours, 1859

I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ~Henry David Thoreau

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce

O Earth, O Earth, return!

Arise from out the dewy grass;

Night is worn;

And the morn

Rises from the slumbrous mass.

~William Blake (1757-1827), "Songs of Experience: Introduction"

I like my coffee black and my mornings bright. ~Terri Guillemets

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. ~Robert Lynd

The eye of the poet still loves to view

The earth in the light of morn;

When each object comes in its happiest hue,

When all looks pure, and unstain’d, and new...

Ere the air’s first freshness is worn away...

Ere the sultry sun, in the glare of his pride

Hath dash’d all the dewy drops aside...

Ere man moves forth with his thoughts of care,

With his wearied step, and his selfish air,

And his ominous looks to cloud the scene,

Where brightness and beauty alone have been.

~Thomas Furlong, "Morning Meditations"

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ~William Feather

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience — unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman

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

I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner