169 New Year Resolution Quotes

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My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. — James Lafferty

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. — Melody Beattie

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. — James Agate

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. - Henry Moore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. — Henry Moore

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. — Dave Beard

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. — Goran Persson

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! — Aleister Crowley

My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. — Lady Gaga

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. — Eric Zorn

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. — Oprah Winfrey

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. — John Burroughs

Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give — William Arthur Ward

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. — Mark Twain

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin

Short New Year Resolution Quotes

  • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. — Joey Lauren Adams
  • Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. — Sammy Hagar
  • Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow. — Catherine McAuley
  • Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. — Benjamin Franklin
  • Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. — Jonathan Edwards
  • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow. — Catherine McAuley
  • Last year was the beginning. This is going to be a huge year. — Jensen Huang
  • A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God. — T. B. Joshua
  • I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends. — Julia Ward Howe

New Year Resolution Image Quotes

New year resolution quote New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

No New Year Resolution Quotes

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back. — Tucker Carlson

Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel. — Kevin Trudeau

New year resolution quote When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.
When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.

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. — Charles Lamb

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. — Charles Lamb

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. — Mark Twain

New year resolution quote Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.
Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. — Oscar Wilde

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. — Anais Nin

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. — Edgar Guest

Happy New Year Resolution Quotes

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. — Steven Spielberg

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

I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder. — Robert Clark

New year resolution quote If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. — Charles Lamb

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you. — Randy Pausch

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. — Hartley Coleridge

New year resolution quote In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. — Ellen Goodman

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

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. — Leonard Bernstein

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it. — Neil Gaiman

New Year Motivational Quotes

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. — Henry David Thoreau

The secret of getting ahead is getting started — Mark Twain

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. — Bruce Springsteen

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. - Rumi

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi

Decide that you are not going to stay where you are. — J. P. Morgan

The trouble is you think you have time. — Buddha

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. — Arnold Bennett

when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on. — Hillary Clinton

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. — Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

New Year New Me Quotes

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. — Paul the Apostle

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. — Elizabeth II

China is the most interesting part of the world for me now. I go there two or three times a year, most recently in Dalian, where we’ve just opened in a new mall. There are so many people who are getting to the stage where they want to consume, who want to be part of a club. — Bernard Arnault

There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way." — Minnie Louise Haskins

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. — Vin Diesel

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. — Cyril Cusack

I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way. — Carol Ann Tomlinson

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design. — Antony Flew

New Year Quotes

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond. — Adrian Frutiger

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year. — Dalai Lama

Remember: Life is short, break the rules — James Dean

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. — Bill Vaughan

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons. — Michelle Alexander

In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude. — Howard Thurman

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?' — Mariska Hargitay

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? — George C. Wallace

New Year Wishes Quotes

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. — Douglas Pagels

Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year! — Rob Halford

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. — John Greenleaf Whittier

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. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life. — Lao Tzu

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. — Michael Josephson

The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy. — Charles Dickens

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures. — Richard Prince

This bright new year is given me — William Arthur Ward

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. — Ann Landers

New Year Fresh Start Quotes

New Year, New Life — Spanish Proverbs

The secret to living the life of your dreams is to START living the life of your dreams. — Mike Dooley

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over. — Kristin Armstrong

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page — Henry Ward Beecher

Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind. — Joel Osteen

In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning. — Criss Jami

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Only dreams give birth to change. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

New Year New Start Quotes

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. — Seneca

Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. — Charlotte Bronte

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. — Michael Josephson

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. — Paulo Coelho

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again. — Brownie McGhee

As a chapter closes in your life, And a new one starts for you, May your years be filled with all the things You've been looking forward to! — John Walter Bratton

You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix! — Ken Kutaragi

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. — Nia Vardalos

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

The end is where we start from. — T. S. Eliot

New Years Quotes

The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime. — Dan Buettner

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked. — Donna Rice

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked. — Donna Rice Hughes

True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time. — Howard W. Hunter

We are edging closer toward a dramatically extended healthspan — where 100 is the new 60. What will you create, where will you explore, and how will you spend your time if you are able to add an additional 40 healthy years to your life? — Peter Diamandis

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. — Nelson Mandela

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? - Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? — Robert Burns

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you — Drake

Ireland added around 2.75% to its population this year through immigration - in a single year. That means that 1 in every 36 people you see is a new arrival. You need not be particularly anti-immigration to recognise that’s an enormous number. — Philip Pilkington

One of the biggest mistakes investors make is to look at the last few years and assume that’s the new norm. — Francois Rochon

Inspirational New Year Quotes

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. — James Earl Jones

Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. — Marsha Petrie Sue

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true. — Greg Reid

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things. — Kate Spade

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration. — Elvis Stojko

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. — Steve Wozniak

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs. — William Arthur Ward

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. — Brian Tracy

The journey is the reward — Steve Jobs

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. — Oprah Winfrey

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More New Year Resolution Quotes

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want — Richard Yates

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out. — Saint John Chrysostom

I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things. — Amy Poehler

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right? — Catherine O'Hara

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. — Jay Leno

Let each new year find you a better person. — Benjamin Franklin

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself. — Zach Galifianakis

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 object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance — David Nicholls

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