Inspirational End of the Year Quotes to Motivate Your New Beginnings

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Nibo Qubein

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

- William James

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

- Steve Jobs

"Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!"

- Dada Vaswani

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

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

- Neil Gaiman

"New Year’s Day is a good time to fix one’s eyes on the only true goal: to be better human beings."

- G.K. Chesterton

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"Starting strong is good. Finishing strong is epic."

- Robin Sharma

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions."

- Tony Robbins

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Every ending is a new beginning."

- Marianne Williamson

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

- George Addair

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Vern McLellan

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Stopping at third adds no more to the score than striking out. It doesn’t matter how well you start if you fail to finish."

- Billy Sunday

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Taylor Swift

"The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning."

- Caroline Myss

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

- Jessica Savitch

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"You can. End of story."

- Cory Lewis

"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas."

- Charles Kettering

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

- J. B. Priestley

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

- Andy Warhol

"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

- Edward Eggleston

"Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

- John Henry Newman

"If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."

- Jim Carrey

"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor."

- Brian Tracy

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

- Richard Branson

"Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal."

- Aberjhani

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The woods are lovely dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."

- Robert Frost

"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

"New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats."

- Og Mandino

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

- Nido Qubein

"Ring out the old, ring in the new."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"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

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- John R. Dallas Jr.

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Josiyah Martin

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

- Brad Paisley

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

- Melody Beattie

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

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

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let’s make the most of today."

- Robert Ashby

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

- Mitch Albom

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

- Confucius

"Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential."

- Ellen Goodman

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"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

"As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection – a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future."

- Peggy Toney Horton

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Peter F. Drucker

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

- Margaret J. Wheatley

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

- Shauna Niequist

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Karen Kaiser Clark

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

"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

"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

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Robin Sharma

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."

- J.P. Morgan

"Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Suzy Kassem

"Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it."

- Confucius

"Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret."

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

- George S. Patton

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Jung

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"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

"Begin anywhere."

- John Cage

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

- Plato

"Take a jump, even if you can’t see where you will land."

- David Cameron

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"

- Charles Bukowski

"Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy."

- Bruce Lee

"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

"Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."

- James Ling

"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

"You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day."

- Viggo Mortensen

"There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and endings of things."

- Francis Bacon

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

- Andrew Grove

"If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

- Marcel Proust

"An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history—he is one who can accomplish things."

- Henry Ford

"I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements."

- Darrell Hammond

"The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know."

- Leonard Peikoff

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

- T.S. Eliot

"Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you ever imagined."

- Anonymous

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects."

- Albert Einstein

"Remember: never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully—and imaginatively—for its hidden assets."

- Michael Korda

"Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more."

- Louis L’Amour

"Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life."

- Plato

"Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly."

- Bear Grylls

"Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."

- Charles J. Givens

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

- George Washington

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

- Tom Peters

"I attribute my success to this—I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"It’s never crowded along the extra mile."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- George Eliot

"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

"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."

- Annie Sullivan

"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal."

- Charles Buxton

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."

- Eartha Kitt

"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."

- José Ortega y Gasset

"There is power in thinking. And you can use that power to enhance your success potential if you spend some time every day thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’"

- Maria Montessori

"Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful."

- Beau Taplin

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul."

- Joseph Addison

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buehner

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

- Taylor Swift

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children."

- Charles Darwin

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future."

- Hannah Arendt

"Life—a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."

- Charles Lindbergh

"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."

- Bob Bennett

"Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."

- Edward Carpenter

"We don’t see the end of the tunnel, but I must say I don’t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter."

- President John F. Kennedy

"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

- John Updike

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends."

- J.J. Watt

"We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."

- Peter De Vries

"We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?"

- George Orwell

"The best is yet to come."

"The best time for new beginnings is now."

"New Year, new mindset, new focus, new intentions, new results."

"This is the beginning of anything you want."

"We are what we do. End the year being the person you hope to become. There is no time like the present."

"As the year draws to an end, remember to learn from your mistakes and use these moments as ways to overcome similar obstacles in the future."

"Each year teaches us something new and further molds us into the person that we are destined to become. Don't forget to take some delight in your successes and moments of growth from this past year."

"As the year ends, take a moment to be mindful. You cannot control anything but what is immediately in front of you. Let go of your failures and focus on a better tomorrow."

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."

"Someone once told me not to bite off more than I could chew. I’d rather choke on greatness than nibble on mediocrity."

- Unknown

"Always find time for the things that make you feel happy to be alive."

"You don’t want to look back and know you could’ve done better."

"Knowledge builds power, and you are well on your way to greatness. Keep that momentum going in the next year."

"Reach for the stars in the future ahead. You have greatness within you."

"Stop looking ahead. Forget last days. Begin your better tomorrow right now."

"The ending of this year is a stepping stone for the next. And each new step gets you a little closer to new dreams."

"The mistakes of last year are never failures. They are growth. Take moments to reflect so you can find the future."

"Don't think of this year as the end. It was an opportunity to learn, to grow, and to make mistakes. It was a beautiful experience that made you who you are."

"The new year ahead of you is the future. Only you can craft a masterpiece."

"As the end of the year approaches, take a look at all the work you've done. You are on the right path to the future."

"Wipe the slate of last year clean to clear the way for the possibilities of this year."

"The dawn of a new year is like charging a battery. It helps you find fresh energy to embrace your new tomorrow."

"The knowledge of this year is the foundation for the knowledge learned in the next."

"The future is never easy. Use what you learned in the past as a guide."

"In only a year, you went from a novice to a master. Congrats on the next step in your education."

"Through this year, we've learned from one another. Moving on is proof of our success."

"What feels like the end is often the beginning."

"If plan A didn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters."

"Stop trying to press rewind. It’s life, not a movie."

"Saying goodbye to the old year is like shedding a skin. In 2025, let's emerge stronger, wiser, and ready for new adventures."

"Rather than reflecting on what you haven't done as this year closes, think of this new year as an opportunity. The best paths in life always have a few curves in the road."

"Use this new year as an opportunity to achieve the wishes of your heart."

"May the happiness of last year shine in this one."