89 End of Year Inspirational Quotes to Inspire Your Fresh Start

"I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings."

- Nick Frederickson

"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"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

"In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written."

- Juansen Dizon

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

- Seneca

"It's never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over."

- Paulo Coelho

"And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."

- Meister Eckhart

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written."

- Melody Beattie

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."

- Brad Paisley

"The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all."

- Josiyah Martin

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but that we should have a new soul."

- G.K. Chesterton

"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice."

- T.S. Eliot

"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."

- Taylor Swift

"Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year."

- John R. Dallas Jr.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them."

- Brittany Murphy

"A new year can begin only because the old year ends."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year."

- Vern McLellan

"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Every task, goal, race and year comes to an end…therefore, make it a habit to FINISH STRONG."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Every ending is a beginning. We just don't know it at the time."

- Mitch Albom

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more."

- Judy Garland

"Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming."

- Mike Dooley

"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Change can be scary, but you know what's scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing."

- Mandy Hale

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

- Harriet Tubman

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."

- Germany Kent

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow."

- Shauna Niequist

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

- Karen Kaiser Clark

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December."

- Oliver Herford

"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

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

- Plato

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever."

- Neil Gaiman

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

"Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both."

- Kristin Kreuk

"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."

- Margaret Wheatley

"In our perfect ways, in the ways we are beautiful, in the ways we are human –we are here. Happy New Year's. Let's make it ours."

- Beyoncé

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

- Peter F. Drucker

"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try."

- William Arthur Ward

"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about."

- Winston Churchill

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Begin anywhere."

- John Cage

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

- Tom Peters

"Ring out the false, ring in the true."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"You'll never get bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."

- Charles Lamb

"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions."

- Joey Adams

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The journey is the reward"

- Steve Jobs

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it."