- Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.~ Madame C.J. Walker
- Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?~ David Halberstam
- Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.~ Vincent Van Gogh
- Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.~ Robert Orben
- If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.~ Hebrew Proverb
- If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.~ Lou Holtz
- If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.~ Donald M. Kendall
- If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.~ David Viscott
- If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.~ Chinese Proverb
- I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel, and by nightfall, it’s a paragraph in my column.~ Don Marquis
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.~ Tallulah Bankhead
- It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.~ Vince Lombardi
- 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.~ Harry Hershfield
- Many are called but few get up.~ Oliver Herford
- My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.~ Cary Grant
- Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.~ Marlo Thomas
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.~ Italian Proverb
- Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can’t find them, then make them.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You’ve got to get up and work at making your dreams come true.~ Poh Yu Khing
- Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.~ James Russell Lowell
- The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.~ Robert Frost
- The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you’re born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.~ Author Unknown
- The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, “How is the president?”~ Will Rogers
- There’s nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren’t going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.~ Woody Hayes
- Those who sleep with dogs get up with fleas.~ American Proverb
- To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle.~ Judith Guest
- We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.~ Wilbur Wright
- When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.~ Les Brown
- When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn’t that the best position from which to pray?~ Ethel Barrymore
- When you fall, don’t get up empty handed.~ Author Unknown
- When you go to bed with a clear head, you will not get up with a headache.~ Greek Proverb
- Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.~ Edmund Rouse
- You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart.~ Carole King
- You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.~ Geroge Lorimer
- You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that’s it — there’s no turning back.~ Jon English
- You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.~ Billy Wilder
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