169 New Year Quotes to Help You Embrace Fresh Beginnings

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Famous New Year Quotes

A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God. — T. B. Joshua

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

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

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

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

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. - Sammy Hagar

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. — Sammy Hagar

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

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

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

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera. — Giacomo Meyerbeer

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

From the end spring new beginnings. — Pliny The Elder

Last year was the beginning. This is going to be a huge year. — Jensen Huang

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

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 Quotes

  • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. — Joey Lauren Adams
  • Spring in the world! And all things are made new! — Richard Hovey
  • Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. — Charles Kettering
  • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The sun is new each day. — Heraclitus
  • My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. — James Lafferty
  • We turn not older with years but newer every day. — Emily Dickinson
  • At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. — Thomas Tusser

Top 10 New Year Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started — Mark Twain

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

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

New Year Image Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Chinese New Year Quotes

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. — Barack Obama

May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours. — Irma S. Rombauer

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire. — David Letterman

New year 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.

Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig on my checks. — David Letterman

Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese New Year fireworks. — Chris Kilham

Motivational New Year 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

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

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

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

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

The trouble is you think you have time. — Buddha

New year 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.

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

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

New Beginning New Year Quotes

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

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

New Year, New Life — Spanish Proverbs

New year 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.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. — Thomas Mann

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

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

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! — J. K. Rowling

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

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

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge. — Peter Drucker

Happy New Year Quotes

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

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

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential. — Ellen Goodman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Year New Me Quotes

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

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

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

The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and look forward to a new year brimming with promise and peace. — Kirby Larson

By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man. — Cyprian

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. — Rick Danko

Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me. — George Best

New Year New Start Quotes

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

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

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

New Year New Beginning Quotes

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

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

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed. — Plato

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. — Taylor Swift

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

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

You raze the old to raise the new. — Justina Chen

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history. — Albert Reynolds

And it's only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we'll release our first standalone movie based on these characters, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII in 2017, and we'll finish this trilogy with Episode IX in 2019. — Bob Iger

I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality. — Rick Steves

Happy New Year Eve Quotes

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. — Douglas Pagels

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

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

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

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

Happy New Year Love Quotes

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. — Nicholas Sparks

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

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

New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

On this sacred day, I want to extend my warm regards and gratitude for staying beside me when I was at the lows of my life. Your support and love has been the biggest strength in my life. May Allah bless you and grant all your wishes this year. Thank you for being there. Happy new Islamic year! — Wishes

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More New Year Quotes

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

Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, after thirty years of bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of Saint Peter at the touch of the divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul! — Elizabeth Ann Seton

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

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

I call this a ‘lost art’ because so many of these new discoveries aren’t new at all. Most of the techniques I’ll be exploring have been around for hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. They were created, documented, forgotten, and discovered in another culture at another time, then forgotten again. This went on for centuries. — James Nestor

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

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 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 bitcoin block is expected to be produced around every ten minutes. Every 210,000 blocks, or roughly four years, the protocol halves the number of coins produced with each block. This means that the daily bitcoin production on any given day is half of what it was four years earlier. Four more years of successful operation will likely increase people’s awareness of bitcoin and increase the chances they place on its continued survival, thus increasing their subjective valuation and demand for it. So as long as bitcoin continues to operate, and its supply drops by half every four years, it is highly likely that marginal demand for it will be higher, and the marginal supply lower, than four years previously. This monetary time bomb keeps clicking with each new block, and it is time for economists to begin to seriously contemplate what its continued clicking means for the world’s monetary and financial system. — Saifedean Ammous

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

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. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. — H. G. Wells

In Conclusion

New Year quotes often emphasize the importance of reflection and gratitude. They remind us to appreciate the lessons learned from the past year and to look forward with a positive mindset. These quotes encourage us to celebrate the achievements and milestones we've reached, however big or small. They also remind us to cherish the relationships we have, and to make time for loved ones as we embark on a new year filled with opportunities for growth and happiness. New Year quotes serve as a reminder to embrace change, let go of past regrets, and embrace the possibilities that lie ahead, motivating us to make the most of the fresh start that a new year brings.

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