Inside: 15 motivational morning quotes for moms that will encourage you to wake up early, get started before your kids, and have some time alone... every day.
Just the other day I was looking through an old journal when I came across an entry I had written regarding something my husband had told me. What he had said was this:
"You don't have to be motivated to take action."
I didn't write anything about the context of the conversation. I had simply jotted that down and attributed it to Lance. Regardless of why he felt I needed to hear that then, it certainly was a slap in the face as I sat reading it, years later, on my bedroom floor.
It reminded me that, more then "motivation", what I needed to make a hard change was a mindset shift. I needed to stop waiting to feel ready for the change, and instead start making the change, despite how I felt.
If you're not a morning person...
You're not a morning person? I totally get it. Waking up early is hard, especially when the sheets are warm and the room is cool and dark. It's not impossible, however, to start an early morning routine even if right now you might say you hate mornings. With little, tiny incremental steps, you can make changes to your mind, body, and perspective.
In order to truly enjoy your mornings, you have to start with this: a change in your morning mindset.
If you tell yourself mornings are hard, then hard they will be. But if you can change the narrative, it'll change how you wake up.
These 15 morning quotes will help you change your perspective on mornings, and give you a picture of how a life-giving morning routine can impact your entire day.
But what if you're already a morning person? We all need fresh perspective every now and then, right? These 15 quotes will help you wake up early and get your butt out of bed so you can start your day with a peaceful and life-giving morning routine.
15 Motivational Quotes To Help Moms Wake Up Early
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“Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistant practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.”
Elle Luna
2.
"Every time you choose to do the easy thing, instead of the right thing, you are shaping your identity, becoming the type of person who does what’s easy, rather than what’s right."
Hal Elrod
3.
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."
Ralph Marston
4.
"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen"
Wayne Huizenga
5.
“Wake up early and tackle the day before it tackles you. Be on offense, not defense.”
Evan Carmichael
6.
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:22-23
7.
"There is no better day than today for us to give up who we’ve been for who we can become, and upgrade the life we’ve been living for the one we really want."
Hal Elrod
8.
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."
Richard Whately
9.
“How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning… snoozing through your life… and snoozing through your unlimited potential?”
Hal Elrod
10.
"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up"
J.M. Power
11.
"Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful of the simple things."
Miranda Kerr
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"When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective."
Harvey Mackay
13.
“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—then make that day count!”
Steve Maraboli
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"To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever."
Miranda Kerr
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"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed."
Mark 1:35
3 Ways To Use These Morning Motivational Quotes:
There you have it, 15 morning quotes to get you motivated and ready for your own Mama's Morning! But where do you go from here? How can you take these inspirations and use them to make real change in your life? Here are three practical ways to use these quotes:
1. Write them down and place them beside your bed
Choose a couple that resonate with you, jot them down on a notecard, and keep that notecard by your bed or on the mirror in your bathroom.
2. Put a sticky note on your phone
This will help you in two ways:
1) at night when your tendency is to grab your phone you'll be reminded to make choices that make an early morning easier.
2) if you have a tendency to grab your phone first thing in the morning while lying bed, seeing the sticky note will encourage you to get up instead of staying under the covers!
3. Create a phone screensaver
This can be fairly easily done by creating an image of the quote and setting it as your phone screensaver. It's a great way to remind yourself of the habit change you're striving for!
Just remember, you can read quotes all day long but that in itself is not going to get you out of bed. Because in the end, you just have to do the hard work. It's not about reading some quote to feel motivated. It's about doing the hard thing that you know is right, despite how you feel.
Take action to create the habits you crave.
I'm rooting for you,
