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
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.
—Unknown
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
—Turkish Proverb
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
—German Proverb
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
With each sunrise, we start anew.
—Unknown
In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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 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
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
Even the most beautiful morning cannot bring back the evening.
—Chinese Proverb
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
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
—Japanese Proverb
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
—Common Proverb
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
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
—Thomas Gray (1716–71) English Poet, Book Collector
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
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
The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening.
—Maltese 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
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
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
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
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
I’d like mornings better if they started later.
—Indian Proverb
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
—Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian
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
No matter how long the night is, the morning is sure to come.
—African Proverb
The silent hours steal on, and flaky darkness breaks within the east.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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
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
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 the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
—German Proverb
I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions an angel might share.—The long, slender bars of cloud float, like fishes, in the sea of crimson light.—From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.—I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches me, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American 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
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
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
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
Nor is a day lived, if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens.
—Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) American Teacher, Writer, Philosopher
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
—Swedish Proverb
Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic 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
The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The morning, pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
We are new every day.
—Irene Claremont de Castillejo (1885–1967) British Psychoanalyst
Sweet is the breath of morn; her rising sweet with charm of earliest birds.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater