Lately I’ve been a big advocate for creating a morning routine you love.
I believe wholeheartedly in the power of a beautiful morning routine to create positive change in your life, because this has been true for me. I’m also a quote person! Words have power, and an inspiring quote or verse can encourage and challenge us to live more intentionally. I put together some quotes and verses that have inspired me as I have developed a morning routine.
Choose one you love and make it your morning mantra!
“Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, with a day delighted with light and heat, we start the fight for something more than before.” ~ Jeb Dickerson
“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” ~Maya Angelou
“The early morning has gold in its mouth.” ~Benjamin Franklin
If you seek me early, and diligently, you will find me. Proverbs 8:17
“Each sunrise brings hope to your dreams and light to your plans.” ~” William Ngwando Maphoto
“I arise in the morning, torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it difficult to plan my day.” ~ EB White
Make sure that you don’t get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day to day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God….Be up and awake to what God is doing! We can’t afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence. Get out of bed and get dressed! Romans 13: 11-14, The Message
“Good morning is not just a word, it’s an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right!” ~Fain Blake
“When you arise in the morning, think what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love”. ~Marcus Aurelius
“It is well to be up before daybreak for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” ~Aristotle
“The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment we wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing back in. And so on all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind. We can do it for moments at first. But from those moments the new sort of life will be spreading through our system; because now we are letting them work at the right part of us.” ~CS Lewis
“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own, you just need to pay attention to this miracle.” ~Paul Coelho
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself” ~Tecumseh
“Life is waking up an hour early, to live an hour more.” ~ Unknown
“Every morning you have two choices. Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” ~ Unknown
Inspired to get up early tomorrow?
Which is your favorite? Let me know in the comments!
Live nourished,
Heather
