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Morning motivation quotes for people who hit snooze
The third snooze has its own logic. It's dark, the floor is cold, the bed has never been better, and the plan you made on Sunday night was written by someone far more awake.
Your Lock Screen is usually the first thing you read each day, ahead of the messages and the news. That makes it a decent place for one good line. People who like their mornings better often mention dull things: the alarm on the far side of the room, a glass of water, staying up once they're up, one small thing to look forward to.
None of this is a case for 5am. Shift workers, new parents and night owls are welcome here, and so is anyone on day two of a plan that looked good on day one.
The moments
- Reaching for the phone before your eyes are open
- The third snooze
- A warm bed in a cold room
- Day two of the new early start
- The first hour already taken by kids and messages
- A dark morning in January
What people say helps
- Putting the alarm on the other side of the room
- A glass of water and a bit of movement on getting up
- Staying up once they're up
- One small thing to look forward to
“Wake up at 5 like the CEOs” and “winners wake early” shame shift workers and anyone who has slept badly, and the early bird has had long enough.
Quill Originals are written by Quill. Popular sayings are widely repeated lines with no name attached. Lines with a name are checked word for word against public-domain books.
Quill Originals
You do a lot before most people have opened their eyes.
Five alarms is a group project.
Everything looks worse before breakfast. Wait for toast.
Put one lamp on. That's sunrise for now.
There's a light on across the street. Someone else is up too.
Nobody thanks the person who found the shoes. Thank you.
Half the lecture hall looks like you feel.
Nothing has gone wrong yet.
Your morning starts when your morning starts.
A small ritual says this day is yours as well.
Take your time. You've got a few minutes.
Monday knows what it's done.
You're someone who notices what the light's doing.
There's somebody who'd like to hear your voice today.
Morning is the last part of today nobody's booked.
Not yet, world.
Getting up is hard for almost everyone. They lie about it.
You're at the start of a whole day and nobody's disappointed yet.
Today doesn't need a theme. Tea will do.
You used to wake up already late. Look at this.
Try starting the day on your own side.
You stole ten minutes from the day. Nobody saw.
Popular sayings
How you start the day is how you live the day.
Start today.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
Make today count.
Make the most of today.
Get up, dress up, show up.
From the books
Be glad that days are to come!
All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere.
Read the passage around this line
… hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make. All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.” Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. To him whose elastic and …
New things spring into life every day.
Read the passage around this line
But the Crusades arrive. They are a great popular movement, and every great popular movement, whatever may be its cause and object, always sets free the spirit of liberty from its final precipitate. New things spring into life every day. Here opens the stormy period of the Jacqueries, Pragueries, and Leagues. Authority wavers, unity is divided. Feudalism demands to share with theocracy, while awaiting the inevitable arrival of the people, who will assume the part of the lion: Quia nominor leo. Seignory pierces …
A man’s life should be constantly as fresh as this river.
Read the passage around this line
Undoubtedly, countless reforms are called for, because society is not animated, or instinct enough with life, but in the condition of some snakes which I have seen in early spring, with alternate portions of their bodies torpid and flexible, so that they could wriggle neither way. All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man’s life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.
Rouse thyself! do not be idle!
If you miss the first button-hole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Every day is a leaf in the book of life.
The sky is flushed with the dawn and my path lies beautiful.
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