31 'Good Morning' Quotes Guaranteed to Start Your Day Off With A Smile
Rise and shine! As you sip your hot cup of joe this morning, take a moment to browse these uplifting and inspiring "good morning" quotes. Not only will they put a smile on your face and start your day off with a positive outlook, Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D., a counselor and professor at Northern Illinois University, says that simply reading positive quotes and looking at the colorful images surrounding them reduces stress, boosts joy and balances your mood. The best part? The blissful benefits can last for hours.
Bonus: Try sharing one quote a day with a friend to multiply the feel-good effect. To kick your day off right an to make them easier to like and share with loved ones, we'll also be posting one each morning on our FIRST For Women Facebook page.
Good Morning Quotes and Inspirational Sayings
1. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." –Maya Angelou
2. "All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." —Charles Schultz
3. "The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all." —Josiyah Martin
4. "You are so much sunshine in every square inch." —Walt Whitman
5. "Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." —Mary Oliver
6. "This is a wonderful day; I have never seen this one before." —Maya Angelou
7. "Every day brings a chance to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and dance." —Oprah Winfrey
8. "The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything." —Julian of Norwich
9. "Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands." —Japanese proverb
10. "The best thing to hold on to in life is each other." —Audrey Hepburn
11. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." —Audrey Hepburn
12. "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go." —Irish proverb
13. "There are better things ahead than any we left behind." —C.S. Lewis
14. "Believe you can and you are halfway there." —Theodore Roosevelt
15. "Whenever the world says, 'Give up!' Hope whispers, 'Try one more time.'" —Author unknown
16. "Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet." —Anne Lamott
17. "When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it floats forth and opens." —Anne Lamott
18. "May peace be within you, may your heart be strong, may you find what you're seeking wherever you roam." —Irish blessing
19. "One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming." —Morgan Harper Nichols
20. "Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." —Robert Green Ingersoll
21. "Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine." —Mario Fernandez
22. "Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed." —Muriel Rukeyser
23. "Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." —G.K. Chesterton
24. "Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink the wild air." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” —Antoine De Saint-Exupery
26. "Happiness lies not in finding what is missing but in finding what is present." —Tara Brach
27. "Each time you stop to pick a daffodil, or gather violets on some hill, or touch a leaf or see a tree, it's all God whisperting, 'This is Me'." —Helen Steiner Rice
28. "Every day is a fresh start…every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written." —Juansen Dizon
29. "One flag, one land, one hart, one hand, one nation evermore!" —Oliver W. Holmes
30. "Luck is just another name for miracle." —Margaret Atwood
31. “May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
