As an entrepreneur, you are constantly looking for ways to increase your productivity and get ahead of the competition. You may be wondering how you can possibly do that when you’re always bombarded with new information and tasks. It’s time to start your day off on the right foot by spending a few minutes reading some inspiring sunrise quotes. Not only will this help you stay focused and motivated, but it will also remind you of why you’re working so hard in the first place.

The best sunrise quotes

1. Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it’s like plunging your hand in ice water––it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb. — Tiffany Schmidt, Bright Before Sunrise

2. Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life? — Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

3. Among my stillness was a pounding heart. — Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

4. It is man’s consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo

5. The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo

6. Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. — Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

7. Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever. — Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

8. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. — Norman Maclean

9. There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you. — Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

10. If you are different and alone it doesn’t mean you won’t see a moonlight — there is a sunrise for everyone and everyday.

11. He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me. — Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

12. Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset — eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

13. I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. — Robert Brault

14. It’s a new day. Yesterday’s failure is redeemed at the sunrise — Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

15. Among my stillness was a pounding heart. — Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

16. I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. — Robert Brault

17. She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. — Victoria Aveyard, Queen Song

18. There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight. — Rumi

19. Smile my boy, it’s sunrise — Robin Williams

20. It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! — William Carlos Williams

21. Why did it take the threat of dying to truly notice how exquisite a sunrise or sunset could be? — Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Keeper: A Novel

22. I’d rather change my dreams than live knowing four innocent men were in prison or hanged for a crime they didn’t commit. — Naomi Rawlings, Love’s Violet Sunrise

23. Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

24. Smile my boy, it’s sunrise — Robin Williams

25. Stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don’t have. Drink ’til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does. — Tom Petty

26. You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. — Max Lucado

27. It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! — William Carlos Williams

28. Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love. — Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

29. Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life? — Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

30. Don’t be late or I may end up marrying the judge. — Melinda Heald, The Promise of Sunrise

31. In someone’s darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

32. For every ten vampires who are happy being monsters, there’s always one sad–sack who misses the sunrise. — Tori Centanni, The Immortality Cure

33. Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love. — Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

34. Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love. — Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

35. Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man. — Rabindranath Tagore

36. If you are different and alone it doesn’t mean you won’t see a moonlight — there is a sunrise for everyone and everyday.

37. The thing that would make me happy is to live in Geoffrey Stoner’s world. — Melinda Heald, The Promise of Sunrise

38. Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise. — Tove Jansson

39. Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love. — Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

40. You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. — Max Lucado

41. Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire. — Mary Oliver

42. There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths. — Victor Hugo

43. Give me a number between one and ten.”Two.”Forget that, then. Between five and ten.”Seven.”That’s how many times you’re coming before sunrise… — C.D. Reiss, Resist

44. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. — Walt Whitman

45. At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear — Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

46. What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise. — Meredith T. Taylor

47. At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear — Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

48. It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! — William Carlos Williams

49. Marry me. You’ll learn to love me, I promise. — Robyn Carr, Sunrise Point

50. The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like. — William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

Conclusion

The sunrise is a reminder that no matter how dark the night, there is always hope for a new day. So, enjoy the beauty of the sunrise and be inspired to live each day with optimism and courage.