“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.” — Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack, attributed
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.” — Arthur Schopenhauer · "Counsels and Maxims", 1851
“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.” — Richard Whately · "Apophthegms", 1854
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.” — E.B. White
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.” — Monica Baldwin · "I Leap Over the Wall", 1949