94 Wake Up Quotes

Following is our list of wake up quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about how to start the day.

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Famous Wake Up Quotes

Wake up and live — Bob Marley

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us. — Petrarch

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

And if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take But please don't cry Just know that I have made these songs for you. — Kid Cudi

We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Entangled between a dream and a coma. — Yelawolf

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious. — Thomas A. Edison

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. — Maya Angelou

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake. — Eminem

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. — Fernando Pessoa

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. — Black Elk

Every morning I wake up with the news of bloodshed. I feel my body, desperate to know whether I'm still alive. — Suman Pokhrel

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. — Richelle Mead

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide. — Josh Groban

Short Wake Up Quotes

  • Live your dream and never wake up — Liam Payne
  • Death is the final wake-up call. — Doug Horton
  • Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. — John Keats
  • Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. — Neil Gaiman
  • life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream — Alfred De Musset
  • Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep. — Enya
  • The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi
  • A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. — John Keats
  • Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. — Anthony Doerr

Wake Up Image Quotes

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery quote

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Paul Valery

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be - Alan Watts quote

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be — Alan Watts

Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? - Rick Ross quote

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? — Rick Ross

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. - Winston Churchill quote

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. — Winston Churchill

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. - Sidney Poitier quote

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. — Sidney Poitier

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. - Laurie Halse Anderson quote

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Pliny The Elder quote

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Pliny The Elder

Wake up and smell the coffee. - Ann Landers quote

Wake up and smell the coffee. — Ann Landers

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. - Muhammad Ali quote

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. — Muhammad Ali

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early.
It's the best part of the day. - George Allen quote

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. — George Allen

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. - Wilson Mizner quote

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. — Wilson Mizner

My future starts when I wake up every morning. - Miles Davis quote

My future starts when I wake up every morning. — Miles Davis

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. - Jacques Yves Cousteau quote

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wake up quote One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.

If I Die Before I Wake Quotes

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you. — Tony Campolo

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy! — Kelly Clarkson

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that! — Christopher Titus

Wake up quote Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.

Baby don't wake me, let me take you on an endless journey. We touch and the softest kiss explodes with lust. It's real and you can't deny the heat you feel. And if I die before I wake, baby that's all right. — Steve Vai

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake. — Tonya Hurley

How To Start The Day Quotes

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? — Linda Ellerbee

Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day. — Marcus Luttrell

The goal is to commit to a structure that can take on a life of its own, instead of creating only one of the mood strikes. Or to start each day with the question of how and when you’re going to work on your art. — Rick Rubin

Wake up quote You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

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. — Daniel Handler

How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day. — Anne Frank

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. — James Rollins

Wake up quote Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase
Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them. Good morning.

I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?" — Michael J. Fox

When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore. — Brian Molko

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts. — Russ Grimm

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again. — Thomas Bernhard

When The Morning Comes Quotes

When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. — Charles Bukowski

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine. — Nostradamus

Wake up quote Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day
Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. — Kevyn Aucoin

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. — Henry Ward Beecher

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running. — Abe Gubegna

Wake up quote You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again — Jackson Browne

Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance. — Aya Kito

It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be. — Katherine Anne Porter

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. — Tom Hanks

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More Wake Up Quotes

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears. — Tyga

In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever. — Sheila Carey

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

One day you'll wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wantedPaulo Coelho

You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work. — Unknown

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright

The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend. — Rabia Basri

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working. — A. R. Rahman

The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about. — Dean Martin

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it. — Harvey Mackay

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. — Alan Hirsch

No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. ! — Kyrie Irving

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today. — Joel Osteen

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. — Malcolm X

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up. — Keith Green

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing. — DJ Khaled

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. — Liam Neeson

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. — Dr. Seuss

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack. — Dr. Seuss

A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes. — Zachary Taylor

Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing. — G-Eazy

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. — Anne Baxter

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running. — Christopher McDougall

The hardest person to wake up is the person who is already awake. — Filipino Proverbs

I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to. — Magda Gerber

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator. — Muhammad Yunus

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned. — Donald Trump

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning. — Arnold Schoenberg

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