As we bid farewell to another year and prepare to turn the calendar page, it’s the perfect time to do some reflection on our life’s journey while looking forward to new beginnings.
For many of us who’ve seen our fair share of New Year’s celebrations, finding the right words to express our hopes and gratitude can be a delightful challenge.
Whether you’re in search of the right message to write in your holiday cards or simply seeking inspiration, you’re in for a treat as we share some of the most poignant New Year quotes that speak to our hearts and experiences.
1. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” — Neil Gaiman
2. “This year, know your worth and don’t give discounts.” — Unknown
3. “New year. New me. Same dreams. Fresh starts. — Unknown
4. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” — Germany Kent
5. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
6. “12 new chapters. 365 new chances.” — Bhavya Gaur
7. “Something must end for something to begin.” — d.j.
8. “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” — Göran Persson
9. “This is the year to be unstoppable.” — Unknown
10. “There are far better things ahead than we leave behind.” — C.S Lewis
11. “This year’s book, at midnight, turns to footnote in the next.” — Terri Guillemets
12. “Don’t be afraid to start again. This time, you are not starting from scratch. You are starting from experience.” — Unknown
13. “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
14. “The best time for new beginnings is now.” — Unknown
15. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley
16. “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” — Steve Harvey
17. “We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” — Hillary DePiano
18. “Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.” — Mandy Hale
19. “This is the beginning of anything you want.” — Amberose Creation
20. “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” — F.M. Knowles
21. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale
22. “A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.” — Anusha Atukorala
23. “Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” — Alex Morritt
24. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
25. “We joyfully pray with grateful hearts to welcome blessings in New Year.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
26. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” — David Bowie
27. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin
28. “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
29. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson
30. “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
31. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot
33. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” — Kristin Kreuk
34. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put the words on them ourselves. This book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” — Edith Lovejoy Pierce
35. “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
36. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho
37. “A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” — Phil McGraw
38. “With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.” — Holly Black
39. “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” — Emile Coue
40. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates
41. “This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” — Taylor Duvall
42. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
43. “Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” — Mike Dooley
44. “When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
45. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
46. “Whatever happened over this past year, be thankful for where it brought you. Where you are is where you’re meant to be.” — Mandy Hale
47. “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” — Nick Frederickson
48. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
49. “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
50. “Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” — Kelly Martin
51. “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
52. “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” — Anne Frank
53. “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
54. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” — John R. Dallas Jr.
55. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” — Joey Adams
56. “A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding…and all of you were with me through the storm.” — C.J. Cherryh
57. “And suddenly, you know… It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” — Edna, “The Incredibles”
58. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
59. “It’s a new year. That means a new start. A new beginning. A new adventure. I hope you enjoy it all. Happy New Year.” — Unknown
60. “Don’t wait your turn. Bet on yourself and have the confidence to stand up and say, ‘My time is now.’” — Robert F. Smith
61. “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
62. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
63. “Don’t live the same year over and over and over again! Make a change this time.” — Toni Morrison
64. “Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.” — Avina Celeste
65. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” — Charles Kettering
66. “The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.” — Cindy Morgan
67. “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
68. “Never restart a journey and use the same road that you failed before.” — Dennis E. Adonis
69. “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” — Oscar Wilde
70. “Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” — Michael Josephson
71. “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley
72. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind. Happy New Year.” — Hillary DePiano
73. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away.” — Pascal Mercier
74. “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done. Maybe this year… we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” — Ellen Goodman
75. “What feels like the end is often the beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
76. “Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year.” — Mehmet Murat ildan
77. “Pay attention to your patterns. The way you learned to survive may not be the way you want to continue to live. Heal and shift.” — Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis
78. “I trust the next chapter because I know the author.” — Unknown
Each new year is a gift – a chance to write a new chapter in our life’s story. These words of wisdom aren’t just meant to be read; they’re meant to be felt, shared, and lived.
Remember, no matter how many New Years we’ve welcomed, there’s always something fresh and exciting about the promise of a new beginning.
Let’s raise a toast to the year ahead, to the memories we’ll make, and to the wisdom we’ll continue to gather.
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