Your morning routine plays a crucial role in how you feel throughout the day and how much you can achieve. It affects your energy level, mood, and productivity.
Waking up early is paramount for an empowering morning routine. You get your day started early and can accomplish so much.
If you struggle with waking up early, here are 85 quotes to motivate you to wake up early and seize your day.
- “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”– Rumi.
- “Successful people wake up early, talk less, stay laser-focused, don’t waste time, live healthy, and ignore nonsense.” – Unknown
- “Wake up early. Be ambitious. Get stuff done.” – Unknown
- “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ― Meister Eckhart
- “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” ― Benjamin Franklin
- ” Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time but increases also the measure” ― Caleb C. Colton
- “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
- “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”– Henry David Thoreau.
- “Early sleep and early wake up gives health and makes you grow.” – Portuguese Proverb
- “5 AM is the hour legends are either going to sleep or waking up.” – Unknown
- “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
- “Success comes to those who have the willpower to win over their snooze buttons.” ― Unknown
- “I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I’m all alone where I’m not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings because once my feelings are hurt, I’m dead in the water.” – Francis Ford Coppola
- “Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk” ― Christopher Smart
- “Life is too short.” She panicked.” I want more.” He nodded slowly. “Wake up earlier.” – Dr. SunWolf
- “The early bird gets the worm.” – English saying
- “Every morning, you have a new opportunity to become a happier version of yourself.”
- “Shout out to all the people who wake up early and shine before the sun does.” – Unknown
- “I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: “If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing.” ― William Pitt Chatham
- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.”― Richard Whately
- “I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.” -Jonathan Swift
- “There is too much life to be lived for you to hit the snooze button. In fact, I believe it is seize the day, not snooze the day!” – Hal Elrod
- “I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely ‘want’ to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire – event enthusiasm – for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.” – Hal Elrod
- “If you aren’t utilizing your mornings, what are you doing, girl?” – Unknown
- “How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning… snoozing through your life…, and snoozing through your unlimited potential. Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want & deserve?” ― Hal Elrod
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” —John Wooden
- “Life is getting up an hour earlier to live an hour more.” ― Unknown
- “There is no better day than today for us to give up who we’ve been for who we can become and upgrade the life we’ve been living for the one we really want.” – Hal Elrod
- “The early morning has gold in its mouth.” ― Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t wake up with the regret of what you couldn’t accomplish yesterday. Wake up while thinking about what you will be able to achieve today. Good Morning!” – Unknown
- “You snooze. You lose” – Unknown
- “We can choose to wake up and grumble all day, be bitter and angry, and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or can we wake up with optimism and love and say, Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?”- Margaret Trudeau.
- “Wake up early and tackle the day before it tackles you. Be on offense, not defense.” – Evan Carmicheal
- “Children wake up early because they are still excited about life.” – Unknown
- “Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with a relaxed mind.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “I got up early because I wanted to.” – Jim Gaffigan
- “Always when I woke up, I had the feeling which I am sure must be natural to all of us, a joy in being alive.”- Agatha Christie
- “Early in the priceless timepiece owned by the successful.” – Unknown
- “I’m a very early riser, and I don’t like to miss that beautiful early morning light.”- David Hockney.
- “One day, all your late nights and early mornings will pay off.” – Unknown
- “Wake up early every day so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true” ― Hal Elrod
- “Waking up early helps you win the day.” – Unknown
- “Wake up with a purpose.” – Unknown
- “If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for” ― Antonio Brown
- “I wake up every morning, and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me” – Unknown
- “Sometimes it’s worth waking up early.” – Unknown
- “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson.
- “By getting up early in the morning, one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers.” ― Rig Veda
- “If you want to change your entire life with one small change, wake up earlier.” – Allie Casazza
- “You must decide where you are going in the evening if you intend to leave early in the morning.” ― Malian proverb
- “Rise up. Dust yourself off and shine like the amazing soul you came here to be.” -Unknown
- “Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful for the simple things.” – Miranda Kerr
- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction” ― George Lorimer
- “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” ― Wayne Huizenga
- “Wake up every day stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.” – Tyga.
- “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Unknown
- “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” ― J.M. Power
- “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
- “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom” ― Aristotle
- “Every time you choose to do the easy thing, instead of the right thing, you are shaping your identity, becoming the type of person who does what’s easy, rather than what’s right.” ― Hal Elrod
- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” ― Thomas Jefferson
- “Wake up, determined. Go to bed satisfied.” – Dwayne Johnson
- “Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.” – Jeff Bezos
- “I am always craving that dreamy creative energy I can only get while the rest of the world is asleep.” – Lindsay Champion
- “Front-loading my day (getting a whole bunch done in the morning) is my productivity secret.” – Celeste Headlee
- “There is enormous power in nailing your morning routine, but there’s even more power in adapting to it when it doesn’t happen as we like.”-Terri Schneider
- “When I’m tempted to skip my morning routine or another form of self-care, I remind myself that I can better serve the people I love and the projects I care about when I start with me.” – Courtney Carver
- “Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
- “Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man’s life.” – Philip Doddridge
- “Own your morning. Elevate your life.” – Robin Sharma
- “And all it takes is a single morning filled with positivity to deliver a monumental download of inventive ideas that elevate an entire generation, you know.” – Robin Sharma
- “A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “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
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning, and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
- “For each new morning, let there be a flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.” ― Amit Ray
- “Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.” ― Anasazi Foundation
- “This morning, do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.” ― Medeia Sharif
- “No one can ever bring the morning back at midnight.” ― Munia Khan
- “The first few moments of the day are some of the most important as they can determine the mood for the rest of the day.” ― Daniel Willey
- “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” – George Washington Carver.
We hope these morning quotes have inspired you. The key to waking up early and becoming more of a morning person is setting your mind on it and going to bed early. You may want to work towards your ideal wake-up time gradually. Start by waking up 15 minutes earlier than you would usually. Then work your way to your ideal time.
Reading these inspirational morning quotes, eating healthy, exercising, and managing stress can help you sleep restfully and wake up energized for your morning and the rest of the day.
