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
Instructive Happy New Year Eve quotations
All of us every single year, we're a different person.
I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
New Year's eve is like every other night;
there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges;
whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.
The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
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.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
From New Year's on the outlook brightens;
good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
Let each new year find you a better person.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.
It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.
Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.