Dawn Quotes

• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Mind, Environment

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, New Day, Promise

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• Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Friends, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• Darkness is dawn not yet born.

  Khalil Gibran

  Darkness, Born

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

  Rumi

  Good Morning, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Breeze At Dawn”

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• Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.

  Khalil Gibran

  East

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The morning steals upon the night,
  Melting the darkness.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  William Shakespeare, Aaron Augustus MORGAN (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare, as Exhibited in His Works. By the Rev. A. A. Morgan”, p.162

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

  Jim Rohn

  Moving On, Famous Inspirational, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 18, 2014

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• Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Spring

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• Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

  Alfred Jarry

  Light, World, Another World

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• Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Care

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

  Rene Daumal

  Inspirational, Nature, Morning

  "Poetry Black, Poetry White". Fontaine (Paris), No. 19-20, March/April 1942.

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• Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sunrise, Messages, Mental Health

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.66, Beacon Press

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• I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

  Ken Wilber

  Shining, Today, Taste

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.550, Shambhala Publications

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• It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

  Roald Dahl

  Fun, Want, Ifs

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.180, Penguin

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• The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Unhappy, Sunflower, Portraits

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• As the dawn comes up like thunder.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Thunder, Come Up

  "Mandalay" st. 1 (1892)

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• All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

  Stephen Coonts

  Adventure, Flying, Really Great

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, Water, Forgiving

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

  William Arthur Ward

  Change, Summer, Thankful

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• Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

  William Blake

  Joy, Soul, Hills

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• In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Heart, Winter

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• I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

  Rumi

  Reading, Want, Wedding Speech

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Ode 1823”

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• The Dawn is a wild, fair woman, With sunrise in her hair; Look where she stands, with pleading hands, To lure me there.

  Robert Loveman

  Morning, Hair, Hands

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