Morning Quotes

How you start the day shapes the day. These 20 morning quotes are short enough for a sleepy scroll and strong enough to set your direction — on purpose, gratitude and beginning again. Read one with your first coffee.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. — Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B.R. Ambedkar
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. Ambedkar
Be realistic: plan for a miracle. — Osho
Be realistic: plan for a miracle.
Osho
What you seek is seeking you. — Rumi
What you seek is seeking you.
Rumi
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles. — David Ben-Gurion
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life. — Kahlil Gibran
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
Kahlil Gibran
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. — Chanakya
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. — Dalai Lama
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. — Chanakya
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
Chanakya
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Gautama Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Gautama Buddha
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. — Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. — Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. — Kahlil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
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