Inspirational End of Year Quotes to Ignite Your New Beginnings

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

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- J.P. Morgan

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"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. And to make an end is to make a beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Brad Paisley

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- George Addair

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Mitch Albom

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Ellen Goodman

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

- Melody Beattie

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

- Tom Peters

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

- Neil Gaiman

"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

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

- William James

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand-new ending."

- James P. Sherman

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded."

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Mike Dooley

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nibo Qubein

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

- Josiyah Martin

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

"It's a time when we all want something better. A chance to begin again."

- Elf (2003)

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

- Seneca

"The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine."

- Frank Sinatra, "The Best Is Yet to Come," It Might as Well Be Swing

"It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good."

- Nina Simone, "Feeling Good," I Put a Spell on You

"Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten."

- Natasha Bedingfield, "Unwritten," Unwritten

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"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

"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

"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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Robin Sharma

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Bear Grylls

"But to see the new year in, it's time to face the future with an open heart."

- Leopold, Kate and Leopold (2001)

"It's time to follow your heart and let your dreams be your reality."

- Hailey, New Year's Eve (2011)

"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

"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

"Let's make it last, let's find a way. Turn this all around."

- Taylor Swift, "New Year's Day," Reputation

"To new beginnings. Everyone deserves a new beginning."

- The Holiday (2006)

"I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please —not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for."

- Brittany Murphy

"Closing time, every new beginning Comes from some other beginning’s end"

- Semisonic

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

"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

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"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

"We shall have our day, my dear. Where, unwilling, dies the rose Buds the new, another year."

- Dorothy Parker

"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

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

- Charles Bukowski

"This chapter is done, but the story’s not over. Get ready for a summer full of adventures!"

- Dr. Curious

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A. A. Milne

"Every new year of my life brings a new happiness and a new kind of freedom; ageing is a gift."

- Carmen Maria Machado

"In School, they told me Practice makes perfect. And then they told me Nobody’s perfect, so then I stopped practicing."

- Steven Wright

"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. Things are happening."

- Joan Rivers

"Happy New Year! Let's go get the sh** kicked out of us by love!"

- Sam, Love Actually (2003)

"My dear, when you love someone, and they break your heart, don't give up on love. Have faith, restart, and you will find love again."

- Ingrid, New Year's Eve (2011)

"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

"We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne."

- Rose, New Year's Eve (2011)

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."

- Anaïs Nin

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"I’m like Chardonnay, get better over time."

- Lizzo

"New Year's Day... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

- Mark Twain

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

"The best is yet to come."

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

"When I say I miss school, I mean I miss my friends and the fun times, not the studying."

"School can be tough, annoying, and frustrating. But let’s be honest; you’ll miss it when it’s over."

"A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!"

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

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

"As another school year concludes, celebrate another milestone in your journey as an educator. Your daily efforts make a difference."

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

"Pause to cherish the small moments from this year that made an impact. Great job!"

"Here’s to closing a chapter marked by challenges conquered, lessons gained, and lives impacted."

"The secret to having it all is knowing you already do."