The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
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
Last night I made a thousand plans, but this morning I went my old way.
—Chinese Proverb
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce … Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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
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
The chicken also knows when it’s morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.
—African Proverb
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
Morn in the white-wake of the morning star, came furrowing all the Orient into gold.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
—George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) American Literary Critic, Poet
In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
—Homer (751–651 BCE) Ancient Greek Poet
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
—E. W. Howe (1853–1937) American Novelist, Editor
Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers in the east.
—Jeremy Taylor
In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
—German Proverb
The silent hours steal on, and flaky darkness breaks within the east.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
—Common Proverb
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American Novelist, Playwright
Sweet is the breath of morn; her rising sweet with charm of earliest birds.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
—Japanese Proverb
God had infinite time to give us … He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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 love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
—Martha Stewart (b.1941) American Entrepreneur, Television Personality
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
—Turkish Proverb
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