Whether you need a spark of motivation or a piece of wisdom to carry through the day, these words from thinkers, writers, and leaders across the centuries are here to inspire you.
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."
-- Aristotle
"The early morning has gold in its mouth."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."
-- Jonathan Swift
"The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
-- William Blake
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
-- Rumi
"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."
-- Richard Whately
"Win the morning, win the day."
-- Tim Ferriss
"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"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
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
-- George Lorimer
"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
"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
"Morning is the best of all times in the day for the worker, and his secret is to keep it inviolate, for the most important creative work."
-- Brenda Ueland
"Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day."
-- Glen Cook
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them."
-- Unknown
"Own your morning. Elevate your life."
-- Robin Sharma
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning."
-- Miles Davis
"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning."
-- Larry Page
"He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."
-- Victor Hugo
"I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light."
-- David Hockney
"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me."
-- Jonas Salk
"If you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do — that's a huge piece to moving your life forward."
-- Jocko Willink
"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day."
-- George Allen
"How we start our day determines how we create our life."
-- Hal Elrod
"The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me."
-- Ray Bradbury
"If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing."
-- William Pitt
"Every day, think as you wake up: today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it."
-- Dalai Lama
"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."
-- Mark Twain
"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?'"
-- Steve Jobs
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."
-- Yoko Ono
"When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day."
-- Lynda Resnick
"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."
-- Wayne Huizenga
"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
"Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
-- Emily Dickinson
