Best Awake Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine innings of Taiwanese baseball.”

“If there's something that keeps me awake at night, it is the safety of MPs.”

“I'll always be awake at three in the morning, going over my lines.”

“For me, that is what my mission seems to be in my life on earth - to be awake, to stay awake, and to bring a certain kind of consciousness to the world, and to myself.”

“Sustainability is one of my biggest passions. I have two little girls, twins, and I lie awake at night worrying about what the world will look like for them.”

“When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.”

“I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.”

“I think it is good when your blood is pumping, you are feeling lively, nice and warm, you are loose, you are awake, and your brain is switched on.”

“There's a Dar Williams song about 'houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about other generations past who used to use that dripping sink.' I was one of those kids.”

“By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure.”

“I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.”

“I'm happy every day. You know, that moment when you first wake up in the morning, and you're just finishing your dream, like you're a dog chasing a post truck - and then you realize, 'Oh no, I'm a human, and I'm awake, and it's Trump's America!”

“When it comes to the New Year, I make it a point to catch my mum and dad awake before the clock strikes 12. Then, I celebrate the night with friends.”

“For my eyes, I think an eyelash curler makes me look much more awake, even when I haven't gotten much sleep. It's a really important tool for a mom to have. The MAC one works for me.”

“When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.”

“Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.”

“Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.”

“Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.”

“The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.”

“I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.”

“I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.”

“In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.”

“Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.”

“I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.”

“When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.”

“My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.”

“My fans have been the power behind me and beside me, they have been holding me awake, and so they are my winter storm.”

“My biggest regret is that there are only 24 hours in a day. I wish there was at least a few more hours. Each hour of me being awake means I can help a few more migrants who are stranded and are desperate to reach home.”

“I find it very difficult staying awake after 11.”

“I just stand by the things I believe in and if that upsets people, which it often does, then we got a situation on our hands. Everybody is okay and safe. I'm just blessed to be awake.”

“I'm not going to lie: I'm awful at mornings. Once I'm awake, it still takes me half an hour to actually get out of bed.”

“I don't feel awake in the morning unless I've showered.”

“Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.”

“Jet lag is tough, to be honest. For me, it's much easier to force yourself to stay awake.”

“Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.”

“My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.”

“You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value.”

“There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.”

“One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.”

“One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.”

“In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.”

“I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.”

“I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.”

“I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.”

“You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.”

“Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.”

“When my son was born, I was busy with the shoot of the film. So sometimes I would come in the wee hours and he would be sleeping and when he is awake, I am gone for work.”

“I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.”

“One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.”

“Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.”

“I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.”

“I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.”

“I don't really sleep well when I'm touring. It's so intense. I lie awake and worry about stuff. I'm scared that somebody might come to the show and walk away not having liked it. I'm always thinking, 'You can do better, Lee.' It's what drives me forward, you never feel good enough.”

“I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.”

“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

“My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.”

“I can't imagine being in a Zumba class within ten minutes of being awake.”

“I always have to have mascara; otherwise, I feel like I don't look awake enough. It's like, 'I have eyes now!'”

“If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.”

“I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.”

“Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.”

“I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.”

“This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.”

“I am awake a lot of nights.”

“When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.”

“My problem is winding down rather than staying awake. Eating together and watching a bit of TV with the family helps, and twice a week I go for a run.”

“I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.”

“You mention fishing to most people, and they may think of a tomato can half full of worms and a guy sitting on a dock in a straw hat barely awake. But when you really know how to fish, it's a lot different than that. I take 10 rods out with me, and I'll use every one, each with a different lure.”

“To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.”

“I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.”

“I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.”

“I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.”

“Most people aren't lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.”

“Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.”

“I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.”

“What keeps me awake at night? Just about everything! I worry that I am not there for my family enough. So what keeps me awake at night is general guilt!”

“Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.”

“I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.”

“You know you've have a good idea when you're lying awake at night going 'someone else is going to take it, I just know it!'”

“I've trained myself to write the first two or three hours I'm awake simply by doing it every day. If life stuff interferes with this sacred time, I get very cranky.”

“For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.”

“I was going out with a few girls and we were in a local. A girl started shouting 'Gogglebox' at me and became really intimidating. I left but I lay awake crying, wondering if the girl knew where I lived.”

“I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.”

“To be awake is everything.”

“I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake... it gets me excited.”

“A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.”

“I was studying musical theatre at the ArtsEd school in London and got picked to join a dance troupe called Wacky Feet, for the 'Wide Awake Club' pilot.”

“All of the military services - land, sea, and air - spend a great deal of time awake. This is a direct result of the high tempo of operations we conduct while forward deployed well outside our national borders.”

“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.”

“Sometimes I'll do something when I'm tired at night, and it'll sound hot. But in the morning, when I'm wide awake, I'll listen again and think it's way off. Nobody else would notice it, but I'm like, I've got to fix that!”

“It's always hard sleeping after an evening game because you have a lot of caffeine for the game and the adrenalin is still going around your body. You go to bed and realise you're still wide awake.”

“I remember I played Birmingham and I'd been awake for about a week and I was walking about like a raving lunatic.”

“As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.”

“To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.”

“When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.”

“I was watching Johnny Carson when I was way too young to be awake that late.”

“Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.”

“I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.”

“I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.”

“I try not to think before sleep otherwise it keeps me awake - I usually stick on an episode of The Golden Girls which makes me laugh and have nicer dreams - I highly recommend it!”