“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”  ~ Author Unknown

“Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.”  ~ Caleb C. Colton

“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”  ~ Johnathan Swift