These new year quotes will inspire you. New Year is the time of day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar’s year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging new year quotes, new year sayings, and new year proverbs.
Inspirational New Year Quotes
- “Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and give” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” ~ Joey Lauren Adams
- “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
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“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” ~ Brad Paisley
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“Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” ~ Michael Josephson
- “Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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 , New year quotes on mistakes
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“love the life you live. live the life you love.” ~ Bob Marley
- “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “Let each new year find you a better person.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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“New Year’s most glorious light is sweet hope!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” ~ James Agate
- “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
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“I would say happy new year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.” ~ Robert Clark
- “Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Let the dead Past bury its dead!” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “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
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “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
- “As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.” ~ Simon Newcomb
- “Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.” ~ Ellen Goodman
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“Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “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 , New year quotes on resolutions
- “So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “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
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“The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.” ~ Hartley Col
- “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.” ~ Evan Esar
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New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” ~ Charles Lamb
- “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
- “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Each age has deemed the newborn year the fittest time for festal cheer.” ~ Walter Scott
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“The new year begins in a snowstorm of white vows.” ~ George William Curtis
- “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” ~ Dave Beard
- “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue so that I triumph even when I fall!” ~ Aleister Crowley
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.” ~ Jean-Paul
- “If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” ~ Cyril Cusack
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“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” ~ Tom Peters
- “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
- “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “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
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“Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.” ~ Randy Pausch
- “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” ~ Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
- “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” ~ Brooks Atkinson
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“For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “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
- “A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” ~ Phil McGraw
