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Morning Quotes and Sayings

Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep.
Jacques Cousteau

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

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

Morning glory is the best name,
it always refreshes me to see it.
Henry David Thoreau

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.
Kahlil Gibran

The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
William Shakespeare

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.

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.
C. C. Colton

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

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

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.
F. Frankfort Moore

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

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

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.
Maya Angelou

I’d like mornings better if they started later.

Angels in the early morning may be seen the
dews among.
Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying.
Do the buds to them belong?
Emily Dickinson

Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

Waking up in the morning, I vow with all beings
to be ready for sparks of the Dharma
from flowers or children or birds.
Robert Aitken

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

When in the fresh mornings I go into
my garden before anyone is awake,
I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
Cecilia Thaxter

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
Lou Holtz

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

And even the sun in dawn chorus sings, a celestial melody to the earth below.
Tjaden

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, “Did you sleep good?” I said “No, I made a few mistakes.
Steven Wright

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
Mitch Hedberg

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

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

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
Rodney Dangerfield

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