Inspirational New Year Quotes

• 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
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. - Albert Einstein
• One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things. - John Burroughs
• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius
• You have done what you could — some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. - Oscar Wilde
• 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
• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. - Henry Ward Beecher
• We meet today
  To thank Thee for the era done,
  And Thee for the opening one. - John Greenleaf Whittier
• Each age has deemed the new born year, the fittest time for festal cheer. - Walter Scott
• 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
• 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
• Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. - Charles Lamb
• A new year is unfolding--like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within. - Anonymous
• 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. - G.K. Chesterton
• We spend January 1 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
• New habits make new horizons. - Grenville Kleiser
• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base. - Cecil
• What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year. - Vern McLellan
• Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin