Morning Quotes

These 17 quotes on morning come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. — José Rizal
I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.
José Rizal
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. — Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
The morning glory has taken my well bucket — I must ask the neighbors for water. — Chiyo-ni
The morning glory has taken my well bucket — I must ask the neighbors for water.
Chiyo-ni
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. — Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart. — Ramakrishna
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
Ramakrishna
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. — Rumi
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
Rumi
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. — Marcus Aurelius
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
Marcus Aurelius
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name. — Rabindranath Tagore
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
Dalai Lama
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