New Year Quotes – Every year, we get a fresh beginning where we can have the opportunity to pursue different experiences.
That’s why we get happy and enthusiastic for the night of New Year’s Eve and the following day of New Year’s Day.
No matter what you want to achieve or how many promises you make for the new year, it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate the start of a new year.
We are happy about the events of last year and looking forward to what will happen in the new year.
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New Year Quotes
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” —Neil Gaiman
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” —Joseph Campbell
“It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –Plato
“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” —Mandy Hale
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” —Anne Frank
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” —Hal Borland
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” —John R. Dallas Jr.
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” —Oscar Wilde
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard
“Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!”―D.S. Mixell
“We joyfully pray with grateful hearts to welcome blessings in New Year.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come.” —Melody Beattie
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” —Socrates
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” —Charles Lamb
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma
“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” —Unknown
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ―Josiyah Martin
“On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” ―Akilnathan Logeswaran
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” ―Hillary DePiano
“Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” –Catherine Pulsifer
“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!” ―Ogden Nash
“The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” ―Mehmet Murat ildan
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan
“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” —Bill Vaughan
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”—Steven Spielberg
“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
“We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” —Hillary DePiano
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” —Alex Morritt
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” —Nick Frederickson
“Be the girl who decided to go for it.” —Unknown
“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” —Neil Gaiman
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Ghandi
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” —Francis Bacon Sr.
“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” —Mike Dooley
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” —Frank Scully
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.”―Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding…and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”―C.J. Cherryh
“We are the authors of our destinies.” ―Nike Campbell-Fatoki
“Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
“A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.”―Anusha Atukorala
“New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” —Auliq Ice
“As we grow older and wiser, we begin to realize what we need and what we need to leave behind. Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow. And sometimes walking away is a step forward.” —Unknown
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” —Joey Adams
“The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult, however, to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page.” ― R. Joseph Hoffmann
“Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” —Kelly Martin
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” —Steve Harvey
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” —Helen Keller
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” T.S. Eliot
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coehlo
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey