Each day we start with a blank sheet of paper. Don’t know what will happen next, good or bad.
But one thing’s for sure, you can start your morning right by reading some inspirational quotes.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Here are some of my favorite quotes to help you prepare for a productive routine with the right state of mind.
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Motivational Quotes for Every Day
A daily morning shot of motivation can prime you to be your absolute best everyday!
I have this Marcus Aurelius quote on my laptop screen.
1. When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. ~ Marcus Aurelius
2. A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. ~Winston Churchill
3. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
4. All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~ Michael John Bobak
5.
Attitude is a choice.
Happiness is a choice.
Optimism is a choice.
Kindness is a choice.
Giving is a choice.
Respect is a choice.
Whatever choice you make makes you.
Choose wisely.
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6. Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
7. Do one thing every day that scares you. ~
8. Done is better than perfect. ~Sheryl Sandberg
9.
Do not wait;
The time will never be “just right.”
Start where you stand.
~Napoleon Hill
10.
Do you want to know who you are?
Don’t ask.
Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
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11. Don’t stop believing…
12. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. ~
13. Don’t ruin a new day by thinking about yesterday. Let it go.
14. Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing. ~Bill Murray
15. Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. ~
16. Don’t be busy. Be productive.
17. Each good morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters most. ~Buddha
18. Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen
19. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ~Jim Rohn
20. Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. ~Doug Firebaugh
21. Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.
22. Fall in love with the process, the result will come.
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
Learning to Enjoy the Process and Stop Worrying About the Outcome.
23. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.~ Og Mandino
24. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway.
25. Good, better
26. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
27. How can anyone help you if you are not doing anything yourself? ~Mikhail Efimovich Litvak
28. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. ~Stephen Covey
29.
I don’t know the road to success.
But I know the road to unsuccessfulness
– it is the desire to be liked by everyone.
~Mikhail Efimovich Litvak
30. I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes. ~Zig Ziglar
31. If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken. ~Gary Vaynerchuk
32. In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. ~Gertrude Stein
33. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~Confucius
34. It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined ~Henry James
35. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. ~
36. If you’re going through hell, keep going. ~ Winston Churchill
37. If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
38. If you don’t want to have a boss, you better be capable in the wild.
39.
If you have Shelter over your head,
Food on the table,
Clothes on your back,
and People who love you,
You are Blessed.
40. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ~Helen Keller
41. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. ~Sir Winston Churchill.
42. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ~Goethe
43.
Know who you are.
Know what you want.
Know what you deserve.
And don’t settle for less.
~Tony Gaskins
44. Learn to wait. There is time for everything.
46. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. ~Kevin Kruse
47. Life is easier when you mind your own business.
48. Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
49. Loneliness is a special enjoyment when chosen by ourself.. but hard to digest when gifted by others. Good Morning!
50. Love the life you live; Live the life you love.
51. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~Thomas A. Edison
52. Make today count. You’ll never get it back.
53. Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.
54. Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.~ Matthew Kelly
55. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. ~ Earl Nightingale.
56. Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. ~Nichiren Daishonen
57. Never stop believing in hope because miracles happen every day.
58.
Never stop dreaming,
never stop believing,
never give up,
never stop trying, and
never stop learning.
~Roy T. Bennett
59. No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most. ~Naval Ravikant
60. Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
61. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. ~Gerard Way
62. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ~Henry David Thoreau
63. Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. ~Anonymous.
64. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. ~ Zig Ziglar
65. People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. ~Chuck Palahniuk
66. People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.~ Rob Siltanen
67. Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.~ Swami Sivananda
68. Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.
69. Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together. ~Marilyn Monroe
70. So many people are busy thinking about the future that they miss the opportunities right in front of them. We think the future is something that happens, rather than something we made. ~Ryan Holiday
71. Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. ~Arthur Ashe
72. The ability to love and accept loneliness is a sign of an emotionally mature person. We do the best things when we are alone. ~Mikhail Efimovich Litvak
73. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
74. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~ Jimmy Johnson
75. The only journey is the journey within. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
76. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. ~Arthur C. Clarke
77. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. ~Mary Pickford
78. The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling. ~Fabienne Fredrickson
79. There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley
80. There is no one giant step to success instead it takes many small steps.
81. The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up. ~ Robert Tew
82. The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ~ Walt Disney
83. Sometime you have to stop worrying, wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned, but just how it’s meant to be.
84. Success doesn’t happen in an instant.
85. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ~Rumi
86.
It happens through the progression of lots of little successes, strung together over time.
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If you want to build something big, if you have a vision, a dream, or even just a clearly defined end goal, the question is not how you can make that happen right now, or tomorrow. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The question is: “What habits can I put into place that will allow that end goal to manifest itself?”
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Check out this article: 7 Small Habits for Bigger Results.
87. The struggle ends when gratitude begins.
88. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. ~Ann Brashares
90. Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction.
91. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle
92. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. ~Maya Angelou
93. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
94. When you feel like quitting think about why you started.
95. When you know what you want and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.
96. Work is the bridge between dreams and reality.
98. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a blessing.
99. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. ~Wayne Gretzky
100. You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. ~Shonda Rhimes
101. You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ~Marcus Aurelius
102. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~Steve Jobs
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