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 AureliusIn 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 GibranLike a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean PaulFirst thing every morning before you arise say out loud 'I believe ' three times.
OvidEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauHere on the pulse of this new day, You may have the grace to look up and out, And into your sister's eyes into, Your brother's face your country, And say simply, Very simply, With hope, Good Morning.
Maya AngelouThere's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma BombeckMorning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily DickinsonAll men are children and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David ThoreauA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night, or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de BalzacEach morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close, Something attempted, something done has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does, and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
ChanakyaI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinThe 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 FrostIf 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 HoltzBe pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert HubbardI may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.
Winston ChurchillThank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not.
James Russell LowellI arise in the morning, torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. WhiteIn my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David ThoreauI 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 FranklinMy mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney DangerfieldI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan SwiftThe youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy and of powerful operation, and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.
Jane AustenThe great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter, because some new idea has hit me.
Ray BradburyI awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Lord ByronI have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson MandelaAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauI have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David ThoreauSome mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Emo Philips(Through the night) a great many kinds of birds perch on a tree, but in the morning they fly in all the ten directions. Why should we lament for that?
ChanakyaEvery morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray BradburyIf one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
Lyndon B. JohnsonI of course meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule, I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.
Deepak ChopraThink in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William BlakeIn the morning a man walks with his whole body, in the evening only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true if once understood.
Max MullerIt is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry FordAnd you madam are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
Winston ChurchillThe person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. ThompsonWhen traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen HayesI miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
Barack ObamaIn a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe 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 HugoHuman life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel ButlerTo be intimate with a married man when my own father cheated on my mother is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina JolieI protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas HuxleyFancy and Fantasy rule the mind of man. You desire one thing in the morning, at noon you change over to something else. That desire will not persist until evening. If your desire is fulfilled you praise God and parade your devotion. But if it does not prevail you throw God overboard and parade your disbelief!
Sai BabaWho will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich FrommThere's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody I don't get to go to their ballgame I don't get to marry everybody but the pros are you get all this community 800 ushers come in to serve getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel OsteenJust 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 GatesIn these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl SandburgA leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun; a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin`Father O father! what do we here, In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star.
William Blake[Space dedicated to creativity is the goal of artists of all kinds. Virginia Woolf lauded the] room of one's own ... You must have a room or a certain hour or so a day where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning. . . This is the place of creative incubation . . . If you have a sacred place and use it something eventually will happen.
Joseph CampbellMom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Paul RyanWhen I wake up in the morning I just can't get started until I've had that first piping hot pot of coffee. Oh I've tried other enemas.
Emo PhilipsI had finally adjusted to the jet lag of the trip, but woke up this morning with a sore throat that seemed to get worse all day.
Lance ArmstrongAnd if small businesspeople say they made it on their own all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking and worrying and sweating for them.
Paul RyanThese flowers which were splendid and sprightly waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own, and from morning to night as from the cradle to the grave it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles DickensAnd if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
Alanis MorissetteWe sleep but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Henry Ward BeecherThis morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
Rodney DangerfieldFor 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 JobsIt is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next morning
Marcus AureliusEvery year August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
Henry RollinsMan is born in a day and he dies in a day and the thing is easily over, but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning, and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert ParkerI recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
Mitch HedbergAnd this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt RomneySome mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Emo PhilipsI have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Audrey HepburnA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanMom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
Mitt RomneyDesire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun, it gets longer when you run to catch, it makes you a fool.
Sai BabaProbably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age when the eager passions of youth are cooled and the infirmities of age not yet begun, as we see that the shadows which are at morning and evening so large almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor RooseveltSpend a few minutes every morning and evening in the Silence of your own shrine or home, spend them with the highest of all the Powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and Inspiring company, worship Him mentally, offer unto Him all the work you do, you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in.
Sai Baba