New 12 months’s Eve is all about events, celebrating, merriment…and attempting to remain awake lengthy sufficient to observe an enormous light-up ball be lowered slowly down a pole on the highest of a constructing in New York Metropolis whereas 1,000,000 revelers sing “Auld Lang Syne” in unison. Because the years have gone on, that’s the New 12 months’s Eve we’re most conversant in.
However after all of the company have gone residence and the dishes have been cleaned and the calendar has been flipped, what are you left with? Effectively, a brand new yr, that’s what. And meaning 12 months of latest potentialities and 52 weeks price of alternatives to alter something you need about your self and your life.
You possibly can’t do it alone, although. You want motivation, somebody or one thing to gentle a fireplace below you and set you on the quick observe to self-improvement. In brief, you want knowledge, and also you want it within the type of pithy, witty, and/or insightful quotes from a number of the nice thinkers of our time (actual or in any other case).
Listed here are 50 New 12 months’s quotes to get your yr began proper.
Inspiring New 12 months’s quotes
“Tomorrow is the primary clean web page of a 365-page ebook. Write a very good one.” — Brad Paisley
“Cheers to a brand new yr and one other likelihood for us to get it proper.” — Oprah Winfrey
“12 months’s finish is neither an finish nor a starting however a occurring, with all of the knowledge that have can instill in us.” — Hal Borland
“I hope that on this yr to come back, you make errors. As a result of if you’re making errors, then you’re making new issues, attempting new issues, studying, dwelling, pushing your self, altering your self, altering your world. You’re doing belongings you’ve by no means executed earlier than, and extra importantly, you’re doing one thing.” — Neil Gaiman
“Be at warfare together with your vices, at peace together with your neighbors, and let each new yr discover you a greater man.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Take a leap of religion and start this wondrous new yr by believing.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
“New 12 months’s Day is each man’s birthday.” — Charles Lamb
“Each time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you current a brand new place for brand new concepts.” —Charles Kettering
“The measure of success isn’t whether or not you may have a tricky drawback to cope with however whether or not it’s the similar drawback you had final yr.” — John Foster Dulles
“In our good methods. Within the methods we’re lovely. Within the methods we’re human. We’re right here. Pleased New 12 months’s. Let’s make it ours.” — Beyoncé
“And now we welcome the brand new yr. Stuffed with issues which have by no means been.”— Rainer Maria Rilke
“We spend January 1 strolling via our lives, room by room, drawing up a listing of labor to be executed, cracks to be patched. Possibly this yr, to steadiness the record, we should stroll via the rooms of our lives, not on the lookout for flaws, however for potential.” — Ellen Goodman
“A brand new yr. A recent, clear begin! It’s like having a giant white sheet of paper to attract on! A day filled with potentialities!” — Invoice Watterson
“What a beautiful thought it’s that a number of the greatest days of our lives haven’t even occurred but.” — Anne Frank
“Each single yr, we’re a unique individual. I don’t assume we’re the identical individual all of our lives.”— Steven Spielberg
“Don’t dwell the identical yr 75 occasions and name it a life.” — Robin Sharma
“Ring out the previous, ring within the new/Ring, pleased bells, throughout the snow:/The yr goes, let him go;/Ring out the false, ring within the true.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“One decision I’ve made, and check out at all times to maintain, is that this: To rise above the little issues.” — John Burroughs
“If you happen to requested me for my New 12 months decision, it might be to seek out out who I’m.” — Cyril Cusack
“A brand new coronary heart for a New 12 months, at all times!” — Charles Dickens
“For final yr’s phrases belong to final yr’s language, and subsequent yr’s phrases await one other voice.” — T.S. Eliot
“For eleven months and possibly about twenty days annually, we focus upon the shortcomings of others, however for just a few days on the flip of New 12 months, we have a look at our personal. It’s a good behavior.” — Arthur H. Sulzberger
“The item of a New 12 months isn’t that we must always have a brand new yr. It’s that we must always have a brand new soul…” — G.Ok. Chesterton
Humorous New 12 months’s quotes
“An optimist stays up till midnight to see the brand new yr in. A pessimist stays up to verify the previous yr leaves.” — Invoice Vaughan
“Youth is once you’re allowed to remain up late on New 12 months’s Eve. Center age is once you’re compelled to.” — Invoice Vaughan
“The brand new yr begins in a snow-storm of white vows.” — George William Curtis
“Could all of your troubles final so long as your New 12 months’s resolutions!” — Joey Adams
“Hear, I want I might let you know it will get higher, nevertheless it doesn’t get higher. You get higher.” — Joan Rivers
“By no means make a decision which received’t be as vital on the eighth of April or the tenth of July as it’s on the primary of January.” — Cary Grant
“‘Out with the previous, in with the brand new’ is a becoming expression for a vacation that’s based mostly on vomiting.” — Andy Borowitz
“New 12 months’s Decision: To tolerate fools extra gladly, offered this doesn’t encourage them to take up extra of my time.” — James Agate
“I made no resolutions for the New 12 months. The behavior of constructing plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is an excessive amount of of a each day occasion for me.” — Anaïs Nin
“Could the New 12 months carry you braveness to interrupt your resolutions early! My very own plan is to swear off each form of advantage, in order that I triumph even once I fall!” — Aleister Crowley
“Happiness is simply too many issues as of late for anybody to want it on anybody frivolously. So, let’s simply want one another a New 12 months.” — Judith Crist
“I believe it might be way more smart if resolutions started usually on January the second.” — Helen Fielding, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”
“Now’s the accepted time to make your common annual good resolutions. Subsequent week you’ll be able to start paving hell with them as normal.” — Mark Twain
Hopeful New 12 months’s quotes
“Hope smiles from the edge of the yr to come back, whispering ‘it is going to be happier.’” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Let our New 12 months’s decision be this: We will probably be there for each other as fellow members of humanity, within the most interesting sense of the phrase.” — Göran Persson
“Effectively, we now have a complete new yr forward of us. And wouldn’t or not it’s fantastic if we might all be a bit extra light with one another, a bit extra loving, and have a bit extra empathy, and possibly, subsequent yr presently we’d like one another a bit extra.” — Judy Garland
“When that ball drops at midnight — and it’ll drop — let’s bear in mind to be good to one another, sort to one another. And never simply tonight however all yr lengthy.” — Claire Morgan (Hilary Swank) in “New 12 months’s Eve”
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I need to make a New 12 months’s prayer, not a decision. I’m praying for braveness.” — Susan Sontag
“Pleased New 12 months. Could all of us have a imaginative and prescient from time to time of a world the place each neighbor is a good friend.” — ABBA
“A protracted December and there’s motive to consider possibly this yr will probably be higher than the final.” — Counting Crows
Quotes about new beginnings
“Irrespective of how laborious the previous, you’ll be able to at all times start once more.” — Buddha
“And instantly you recognize: It’s time to begin one thing new and belief the magic of beginnings.” — Meister Eckhart
“I like beginnings. If I had been accountable for calendars, on daily basis could be January 1.” — Jerry Spinelli
“Each new starting comes from another starting’s finish.” — Seneca
“There are higher issues forward than any we go away behind.” — C.S. Lewis
“What we name the start is usually the top. And to make an finish is to make a starting. The top is the place we begin from.” — T.S. Eliot
“It’s a brand new daybreak/It’s a brand new day/It’s a brand new life, for me/And I’m feeling good.” — Nina Simone