Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
—Common Proverb
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
—Jesse Jackson (b.1941) American Baptist Civil Rights Activist, Minister
If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.
—Henny Youngman (1906–98) Anglo-American Comedian, Violinist
Night wanes; the vapors round the mountains curled, melt into morn, and light awakes the world.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Do not say, “It is morning,” and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
Night is in her wane; day’s early flush glows like a hectic on her fading cheek, wasting its beauty.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.—The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
—German Proverb
I’d like mornings better if they started later.
—Indian Proverb
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
But mighty nature bounds as from her birth: the sun is in the heavens, and life on earth; flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
We are new every day.
—Irene Claremont de Castillejo (1885–1967) British Psychoanalyst
The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.
—Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French Catholic Saint
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American Novelist, Playwright
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow—No night but hath its mom.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist
With each sunrise, we start anew.
—Unknown
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
—Common Proverb
No matter how long the night is, the morning is sure to come.
—African Proverb
The chicken also knows when it’s morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.
—African Proverb
The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat awake the god of day.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The morn is up again, the dewy morn, with breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, and glowing into day.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Morn, like a maiden glancing o’er her pearls, streamed o’er the manna-dew, as though the ground were sown with starseed.
—Philip James Bailey (1816–1902) English Poet
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin’s love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
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 (1894–1984) English Novelist, Playwright, Critic
Last night I made a thousand plans, but this morning I went my old way.
—Chinese Proverb
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) French Novelist, Playwright, Essayist