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

“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”

Mia Couto (1955) Mozambican writer

“He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Cocktail Time

“There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

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

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

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

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

“You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

“Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,
If One wake at Morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“Everything changes when you wake up in the morning and decide to own today. It will not be taken from you by anyone else, it will be yours”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian

“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own”

Robert Hunter (1941–2019) American musician