100+ Inspirational Positive New Year Resolution Quotes to Ignite Your Motivation

"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."

- Buddha

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

- Josiyah Martin

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Brad Paisley

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"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

"Your new start is only as far away as your fear has parked it."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals."

- Melody Beattie

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come."

- Melody Beattie

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

- Walt Disney

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

- Brad Paisley

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Carl Jung

"Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed."

- Cavett Robert

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."

- Neil Gaiman

"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

"You expect good things from the New Year, you expect hope, but the New Year also has something to tell you: You create both the good things and the hope yourself, so don't expect anything, do it yourself, create it yourself, don't wait!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- Maya Angelou

"You're waiting for something magical to happen in the New Year so that your dreams will come true! But the greatest and the most real magic is working and striving hard to achieve the goal!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

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

- Peter Drucker

"Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Walt Disney

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

- Alex Morritt

"Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them."

- Hillary DePiano

"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

"You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind."

- Hillary DePiano

"Remove shoulds from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now."

- Kelly Martin

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day."

- Michael Josephson

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

- Albert Einstein

"Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

- C.S. Lewis

"New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future."

- Munia Khan

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Robin Sharma

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don’t wait until February to start living in January."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

- John Henry Newman

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Karen Kaiser Clark

"Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

- L.M. Montgomery

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

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

- George Eliot

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

"We choose to go to the moon."

- President John F. Kennedy

"I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn’t like it, and changed."

- David Sedaris

"There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way."

- Christopher Morley

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

- Vern McLellan

"March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life"

- Eckhart Tolle

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Lean in."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another."

- Alex Morritt

"You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on."

- Samuel Beckett

"Every sunset is an opportunity to reset."

- Richie Norton

"We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us."

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."

- Anne Lamott

"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Today marks the end of the last chapter of the year. With the start of the first chapter of the New Year’s book, let's put the old book on the shelf or even in the lower drawer, and let's pick up the new one, carry crayons in our hands, and start writing a new colorful story. يصادف اليوم نهاية الفصل الأخير من العام. مع بداية الفصل الأول من كتاب العام الجديد ، دعونا نضع الكتاب القديم على الرف أو حتى في الدرج السفلي ، و لنلتقط الكتاب الجديد ، ونحمل أقلام التلوين في أيدينا ، ونبدأ في كتابة قصة جديدة ملونة"

- Nadine Sadaka Boulos

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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."

- G.K. Chesterton

"New Year, New Feels, New Chances, Same Dreams, Fresh Starts."

- Atticus Poetry

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

- Nibo Qubein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way."

- Auliq Ice

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

- Melody Beattie

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"New Year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately, we write it. The choice is ours."

- Alex Morritt

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Jim Rohn

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

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

- Steve Jobs

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new."

- Socrates

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Winston Churchill

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"You are never too old to reinvent yourself."

- Steve Harvey

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

- Germany Kent

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

- Mike Dooley

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands."

- Jane Hirshfield

"If you're looking for a New Year where you won't have any problems, oh, you're asking for so much, my friend, so much! What you want for the New Year is actually very simple: Ask for the mental and physical strength to overcome whatever difficulties you encounter in the New Year!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"New Beginnings The year has come to reach an end; The new path is a one step transcend. Pain and sorrow we leave behind; With Hope and faith we fill our mind. Let us warm our hearts with joy and love, And let our prayers rise high above. Our daily thoughts shall be inspired, So we can reach our heart’s desires."

- Nadine Sadaka Boulos

"I promise to become the person that I want to be."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Most successful people are aware of the hindrances set by people who don't want them to succeed. But they succeed anyway. The law of attraction says you don't have to wish for bad things to happen to you for it to happen; someone somewhere can also wish it. But you alone would allow it to really happen. You are a vessel of greatness, you will win ONLY if you believe you will."

- Asuni LadyZeal

"There has never been a ‘New Year’ that has managed to become 'new' if the mistakes of the old years are repeated!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Your success depends a lot more on what you do on the 364 days that follow your New Year’s Resolution than the New Year’s Resolution itself."

- Bachir Bastien

"The actions you take in the 364 days following your New Year's Resolution have a greater impact on your success than the resolution itself."

- Bachir Bastien

"If you do not enter the New Year more mature, more planned, more careful, more logical, more intelligent, in short, more developed, the New Year will be a repeat of the past years!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- Plato

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Oh, my friends, the first wish I have for the new year is to change the worn-out greeting: 'happy new year'. There is no happiness, only fleeting moments of joy. There is nothing new under the sun, only new ways of looking at the same eternal challenges and unresolved questions. There is no point in wishing for a perfect health in a profoundly sick world – the view is much clearer and more interesting when living on the edge. And so, I wish you all endurance as we go through another difficult year. I wish you courage to snatch a few more days (or moments) of joy as another year slips through the fingers of Time. I wish you much strength to maintain your equilibrium as we face new earthquakes of uncertainty in the coming year. Most of all, I wish we never give up on the possibility of doing things otherwise. And, of course, I wish you much love."

- Louis Yako

"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage."

- Susan Sontag

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

- William Least-Heat Moon

"So, today, I will not make promises to do better, to live healthier, or to save money. These are natural and valid attempts to regulate a future that is impossible to know. But, I will abandon the ritual of unwrapping a fresh package of new resolutions which feel individual in nature. They perpetuate a myth of self-sufficiency. Instead, I wish to live daringly in community and to accept the challenges our collective moment has to offer. I won’t look away in an attempt to live an anxiety-free life."

- Major Jackson

"I make so many beginnings there never will be an end."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance."

- Yoko Ono

"The New Year is made up of seconds, and if you don't make good use of even seconds, you won't make good use of the New Year!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

- Tom Peters

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched."

- Ellen Goodman

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A person who gets lost in a dark forest waits with great hopes that the sun comes and saves him! And a person who gets lost in the gloomy days of a dark year also waits with great hopes that the New Year comes and saves him!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- T.S. Eliot

"Every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all of our lives."

- Steven Spielberg

"When you enter the New Year with longing for the old year, you break the heart of the New Year and you ethically forfeit the right to ask for new things that the New Year can give you!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"If we think of the New Year like a Santa Claus, his most useful gift for you is to give you a whole new thrill, a brand new shake-up to do what you couldn't do in previous years!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"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

"Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring."

- A.G. Howard

"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

"This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next."

- Terri Guillemets

"I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring."

- David Bowie

"Three hundred and sixty-five sunrises to start over."

- E. McD.

"May we all have a vision now and then, of a world where every neighbor is a friend. Happy New Year."

- ABBA

"We can't all be perfect, and I honestly don't think that I want to be. All that I would like is to see greed end and man's bigotry come to an end. It's a tall order, but if we all don't try, then where will our children's dreams be?"

- Anthony T. Hincks

"What can an old house hope for in the New Year? What a new house can hope for in the New Year, the old house can also do them, because the universe we live in has a structure that can make things happen that will never happen!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"New Year's resolutions will only truly fulfil us when we resolve to open our hearts anew to the presence of God's everlasting love."

- Allene vanOirschot

"Never plant promises that won't grow into fruition."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Don't worry if you're having a hard time adjusting from 2020 to 2021. What we've all been through has been different to say the least. A new year brings new knowledge."

- Torron-Lee Dewar

"Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless."

- Terri Guillemets

"And that’s the way it is."

- Walter Cronkite

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

- Oscar Wilde

"Promises should never grow old."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Promises are just dressing for the year to come."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"New Year Same Person New Motivations"

- Torron-Lee Dewar

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."

- Walter Scott

"We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne [for old time's sake]."

- Robert Burns

"You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

- Charlie Brown

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

- Charles Lamb

"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

"New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."

- James Agate

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."

- Mark Twain

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