Marcus Aurelius Quotes

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.

There's nothing more powerful than to consider why you're running, no matter what pain you're going through during the race, if you know why you're running, then it'll be more satisfying at the end.

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.

When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake!

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

When you do the kind of work I do, everything is challenging, but probably the most challenging thing is getting up in the morning and getting on with it because it's so easy to stay in bed and not get on with it.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

That evidence of the spirit of life is what makes me get out of bed in the morning.

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."