Inspirational Quotes to Reflect and Renew at the End of the Year

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Meister Eckhart

"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

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Brad Paisley

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"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.

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

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

- George Eliot

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Melody Beattie

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Julie Andrews

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

- James Ling

"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

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- George Addair

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

- Mike Dooley

"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

"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

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

- Taylor Swift

"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.

"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

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

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

- Carmen Maria Machado

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages."

- Michelle Obama

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face."

- Helen Keller

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Ellen Goodman

"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

"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

"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

"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise."

- Michelle Obama

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Thomas Edison

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Robert Collier

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Peter Drucker

"Kid, you’ll move mountains!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dr. Seuss

"You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."

- Chinese Proverb

"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

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

- Charles Bukowski

"Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

- Albert Einstein

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."

- Joseph Campbell

"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

"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

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

- Edna Mode

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

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

- B.B. King

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

- Dorothy Parker

"True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.”"

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Lizzo

"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

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the Summer."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In dreams begin responsibilities."

- William Butler Yeats

"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."

- Paulo Coelho

"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

"There’s a fire inside of you that can’t help but shine through."

- Taylor Swift

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Dr. Curious

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

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

"Maybe you aced every test, maybe you didn’t. But you made it! Here’s to a summer filled with sunshine and relaxation."

"School’s out for summer! But remember, learning never stops. Explore, discover, and keep your curiosity alive!"

"The bell may have rung for the last time this year, but the echoes of knowledge will stay with you. Happy summer!"

"High fives for surviving another school year! Now let’s conquer summer vacation!"

"Finals are over, textbooks are shut, time to trade pencils for popsicles!"

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

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

"One classroom door closes, but a world of possibilities opens. Embrace the adventure of summer!"

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

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