The morning is wiser than the evening.
—Russian Proverb
The silent hours steal on, and flaky darkness breaks within the east.
—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
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
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
—German Proverb
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
—John Steinbeck (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
—Thomas Gray (1716–71) English Poet, Book Collector
The morning itself, few inhabitants of cities know anything about. Among all our good people, not one in a thousand sees the sun rise once in a year. They know nothing of the morning. Their idea of it is that it is that part of the day which comes along after a cup of coffee and a piece of toast. With them, morning is not a new issuing of light, a new bursting forth of the sun, a new waking-up of all that has life from a sort of temporary death, to behold again the works of God, the heavens and the earth; it is only a part of the domestic day, belonging to reading newspapers, answering notes, sending the children to school, and giving orders for dinner. The first streak of light, the earliest purpling of the east, which the lark springs up to greet, and the deeper and deeper coloring into orange and red, till at length the “glorious sun is seen, regent of the day”—this they never enjoy, for they never see it. I never thought that Adam had much the advantage of us from having seen the world while it was new. The manifestations of the power of God, like his mercies, are “new every morning” and fresh every moment. We see as fine risings of the sun as ever Adam saw; and its risings are as much a miracle now as they were in his day—and, I think, a good deal more, because it is now a part of the miracle, that for thousands and thousands of years he has come to his appointed time, without the variation of a millionth part of a second. I know the morning—I am acquainted with it, and I love it. I love it fresh and sweet as it is—a daily new creation, breaking forth and calling all that have life and breath and being to a new adoration, new enjoyments, and new gratitude.
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer
I’d like mornings better if they started later.
—Indian Proverb
Morn in the white-wake of the morning star, came furrowing all the Orient into gold.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover Breath’s a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey’s over There’ll be time enough to sleep.
—A. E. Housman (1859–1936) English Poet, Classical Scholar
The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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
Darkness is fled.—Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing, kiss the beam he sends to wake them.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-born British Playwright, Poet, Elected Rep
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
—Japanese Proverb
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
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
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
The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening.
—Maltese Proverb
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
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American Novelist, Playwright
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
—Turkish Proverb
Beware of desp’rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass’d away.
—William Cowper (1731–1800) English Anglican Poet, Hymn writer
In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
—Common Proverb
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
Each 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 Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
We are new every day.
—Irene Claremont de Castillejo (1885–1967) British Psychoanalyst
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
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent sacred.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
Last night I made a thousand plans, but this morning I went my old way.
—Chinese Proverb
Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
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
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
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
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
—Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian
The morning, pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
You must decide where you are going in the evening, if you intend to leave early in the morning.
—African Proverb
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
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