Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.
This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?
Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.
I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.
The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today.
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.
My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!
I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.
Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
If people wake up and go, "Oh, where's the coffee," or "Oh, another day," that does not set a good tone for the day.
If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.
