Wake Up Quotes

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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• If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hilarious, Dream, Love Yourself

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2010

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• Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Buddhist, Morning

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 18, 2015

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• One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, One Day

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 16, 2017

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• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Love, Good Morning, Butterfly

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

  Heraclitus

  Men, People, Deeds

  "Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments".

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• 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

  Cells, Laughing, Brain

  "Author Isn't Just a Cat in the Hat" by Miles Corwin in The Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1983.

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go as far as it is possible for any man to go, what have you got to lose? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Attitude, Ambition

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• If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

  Gail Dines

  Beauty, Business, Women

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• I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Good Morning, Have A Good Day

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• Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

  Ned Vizzini

  Dream, Real

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• Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

  Bill Watterson

  Funny Life, Mistake, Awakening

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• When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Morning, Insecure

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• I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

  Emma Thompson

  Daughter, Baby, Helping Others

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• Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  "The Sandman: Fables & Reflections". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1993.

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• I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

  Monica Baldwin

  Good Morning, Lying, Morning Inspirational

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

  Pearl Bailey

  Being Yourself, Morning, Attitude

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