Are you here because you want to be one of the greats? You know–one of those Silicon Valley executives who arise at 4:59 am, breathe deeply in the cool morning air, open their Macbook Pro on a pristine desk, and create life-changing inventions before breakfast?
And right now, do you drool, struggle with your pillow, snooze your phone alarm 5 times, and finally awake 2 hours later wondering what happened?
I’ve done that a lot too. And in my case, the second alarm comes in the form of a hangry toddler ready for food and a baby with a goopy package on their rear.
But, that aside, I *have* experienced the refreshing, crisp clarity of arising at 5 or 6 am and getting stuff done. I’ve even lived it for weeks at a time. And frankly, when I’m out of the groove, I miss the productivity of getting up early.
It just feels better, as long as I’m getting adequate total rest and not getting up *too* early (4:00 am-ish is my limit. Earlier than that, and I just can’t keep up with how early I need to get to bed).
But, because I *do* want to get better at this amazing lifestyle tool—even if I don’t become a Silicon Valley executive, haha—here is a collection of various quotes relating to getting up early 😊
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167 Motivational Waking Up Early Quotes to Help You Make It a Good Morning
Best Morning Quotes On Waking Up Early
“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, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.” — Jonathon Swift“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“If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 a.m., things will work out for you.” — Gordon B. Hinkley“If you really want to succeed in what you do, obey this rule: wake up very early, go to bed late, and occupy your time usefully!” — Israelmore Ayivor“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“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” — Paul Valery“The day will be what you make it, so rise, like the sun, and burn.” — William C. Hannan“The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” — Thomas Jefferson“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“Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it … look at it and really see it … try it on … live it … exhaust it … and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it.” — Erma Bombeck“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 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
Good Morning Encouraging Quotes
“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.” — Jim Carrey“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“Shout out to all the people who wake up early and shine before the sun does.” — Dr. Alisha Reed“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside—remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” — Charles Bukowski“The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night.” — Victoria Durnak“The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” — Charles Dickens“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson“Experience G.R.A.T.I.T.U.D.E. at a deeper level… Give it… Receive it… Affirm it… Think it… Inspire it in others… Talk about it… Understand it… Dream it… Experience it in everything you do.” — Hal Elrod“We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can wake up with optimism and love and say, ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?” — Margaret Trudeau
Waking Up Early to Work Out Quotes
“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“The toughest opponent is me. A lot of times, you don’t want to train. You don’t want to box. Sometimes, life hits you to the point where you don’t even want to live. You have to fight with that person. You have to make yourself wake up in the morning. You have to make yourself watch your weight. That’s how I fight with that person.” — Oleksandr Usyk“Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out.” — Jocko Willink“Starting my day with exercise gives me a big mood and energy boost throughout the day and makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something right off the bat.” — Jake Knapp“If I fail to follow my morning routine, I try to get a hard workout in. A hard workout is like a manual restart of the day.” — Aubrey Marcus“It’s easier to wake up early and work out than it is to look in the mirror each day and not like what you see.” — Unknown“The first step to win yourself is to wake up early.” — Sukant Ratnakar“Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind and setting the context for the rest of your day.” — Eben Pagan
Best Quotes About Morning
“The sun is new each day.” — Heraclitus“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” — Ursula K. Le Guin“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart“I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.” — Unknown“It is a serious thing—just to be alive—on this fresh morning—in this broken world.” — Mary Oliver“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” — Sidney Poitier“I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I’d see.” — Dick Cheney“I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.” — Jeffrey Fry“Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning, the devil says, ‘Awe [shoot], they’re up.’” — Dwayne Johnson“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“Good morning is not just a word. It’s an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right.” — Fain Blake
Quotations on Morning Beauty
“‘There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it,’ said my mother. ‘Put yourself in the way of beauty.’” — Cheryl Strayed“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“Every morning is a beautiful morning.” — Terri Guillemets“God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.” — Joyce Meyer“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt“Outside the open window, the morning air is all awash with angels.” — Richard Wilbur“I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.” — Terri Guillemets“When you do something beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” — John Lennon“Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. It’s an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think, and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day.” — Norton Juster
Quotations on Good Morning Habits
“Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine.” — Caroline Ghosn“He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.” — Victor Hugo“Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.” — Luke Bryan“The most important thing I do each morning is steady myself by not allowing a sense of urgency to penetrate.” — Matthew Weatherley-White“Successful people wake up early, talk less, stay laser-focused, don’t waste time, live healthy, and ignore nonsense.” — Unknown“Eating right and taking the time to slow down and plan in the morning is crucial to a productive day.” — David Moore“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” — Yoko Ono“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” — William Blake“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.” — Mahatma Gandhi
How to Love Waking Up Early Quotes
“Look out of the window and take in the brightness from the sun. Forget the clouds and shadows of doubt and fear. Life awaits you in all its fullness; it’s another beautiful day. Good Morning!” — Ron Manchester“Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel“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 – then make that day count!” — Steve Maraboli“Ask yourself a simple question. How do I wake up every morning? By that, I mean, what do those first few moments of consciousness feel like?” — Shawn Wells“You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you’re excited for the day? That’s one of my main goals in life.” — Kirsten Dunst“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not.” — Christy Chung“In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up,’ say ‘I get to wake up!’” — Erykah Badu“Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful for the simple things.” — Miranda Kerr“Every morning is a reminder to let go of the past and embrace the present.” — Tonmoy Acharjee“When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.” — F. Sionil Jose“When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.” — Steve Maraboli“I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.” — Nas“You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.” — Evan Esar
The Best Powerful Morning Quotes
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness.” — Marcus Aurelius“You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong—but you are now a different shape, a different size.” — Glennon Doyle Melton“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 and deserve?” — Hal Elrod“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” — Larry Page“An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.” — Bernie Siegel“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” — E. B. White“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.” — Richard Whately“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.” — Harvey Mackay“I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.” — Wole Soyinka
The Best Quotes on Morning and Light
“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.” — Kate Chopin“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.” — Rumi“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.” — J.R.R. Tolkien“I drink a cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.” — Debasish Mridha“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams“Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.” — Richelle E. Goodrich“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“Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it’s done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
How to Make It a Good Day Thoughts
“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“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“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand-new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.” — Thich Nhat Hanh“In one minute you can change your attitude, and in that minute, you can change your entire day.” — Spencer Johnson“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson“No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.” — D.L. Hughley“When you’re wide awake, say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.” — Paul McCartney“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its joy.” — Leo Buscaglia“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali“Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” — Kevyn Aucoin“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you’re riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!” — Bob Marley“Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.” — T.E. Lawrence“Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat: ‘Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.’” — Gina Rodriguez
Reasons to Get Up Early Quotes
“Go to bed early and get up early. If you do, your body and mind will become rested and then in the quiet of those early morning hours, you will receive more flashes of inspiration and insight than at any other time of the day.” — Harold B. Lee“Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.” — Henry David Thoreau“Mornings are so precious because it’s when I’m most productive. For me, thirty minutes at 5:30 a.m. is equivalent to at least an hour at 3:00 p.m.” — Whitney Johnson“Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.” — Elle Luna“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“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.” — Abu Bakr“If you have dreams, then wake up early, put on your boots, and start your hustle.” — Avijeet Das“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” — William Arthur Ward“Early sleep and early wake up give health and make you grow.” — Portuguese Proverb“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” — Rumi“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston“Wake up an hour early to live an hour more.” — Anonymous
How to Make it a Good Morning Quotes
“Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.” — Aaron Rodgers“Really, every day is the perfect day to boss up. Every day that you wake up is a perfect day to boss up. It’s all about continuing to put one foot in front of the next. That’s what it’s about. Whatever you think you’re going through, just put one foot in front of the next.” — Rick Ross“When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can because I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway.” — Dolly Parton“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’d like.” — Terri Schneider“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“When I’m just waking up, I like to keep a space for my own thoughts and ideas. Checking my phone is not a priority of mine.” — Andre D. Wagner“I’ve found that the first thirty minutes of my day have the biggest impact on how I feel for the rest of my waking hours.” — Molli Sullivan“The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.” — Austin Kleon“You’ve got to wake up each day and understand what that day is about; you’ve got to have personal goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.” — Cary Cohn
Motivational Quotes For Waking Up Early
“Never wake up waiting to hear a command from someone before you make a move; be responsible! Never repeat what made you waste an hour of yesterday; be accountable!” — Israelmore Ayivor“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.” — Germany Kent“Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.” — Hal Elrod“By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers.” — Rig Veda“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” — Wayne Huizenga“Wake up early every day so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.” — Hal Elrod“Wake up early and tackle the day before it tackles you. Be on offense, not the defense.” — Anonymous“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” — J.M. Power“Dream big, work hard, and wake up early.” — Unknown“Dream big, work hard, and wake up early.” — Unknown“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?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” — Steve Jobs“The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: under-appreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.” — George Saunders“Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of our days 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“My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation—to take care of the people who rely on me.” — Tony Parsons
Funny Waking Up Early Quotes (Some of These are Hilarious)
“What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.” — Timur Vermes“There’s one thing that’s really great about waking up early, and it’s not jogging or greeting the day — it’s just that that’s when they make doughnuts.” — Kathy Griffin“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“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 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“Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can’t sleep anyhow.” — Mark Twain“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“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” — Glen Cook“You know what part I like about waking up early? None. Let me go back to sleep.” — Unknown“I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” — Steve McQueen“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.” — Ernie Banks“I got up early because I wanted to.” — Nobody (Jim Gaffigan)
Babies and Children Waking Up Early Quotes
“Children wake up early because they still get excited about life.” — Unknown“When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can’t sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 am.” — Jimmy Fallon“Cleaning and scrubbing
Can wait til tomorrow,
For babies grow up
We’ve learned to our sorrow,
So quiet down cobwebs
And dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby,
And babies don’t keep.”
— Anonymous“Children who go to bed early, get up early. Children who go to bed late, get up early!” — Unknown“Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.” — Taylor Hanson“My alarm clock wears cute jammies and smiles at me when I wake up.” — Unknown“My kids are the reason I wake up every morning. Really, really, early every morning . . . ” — Unknown“Only a mother understands the sacrifice it takes to go to sleep late, get up early in the morning, and wake up a couple of times at night to watch the sleep of her beloved child.” — Unknown
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