Inspiring New Year Quotes to Kickstart Your Year

"Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams."

- Avina Celeste

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

- Michael Jordan

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

- Mahatma Ghandi

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

- Buddha

"A long December and there’s reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last."

- Counting Crows

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

- Steven Spielberg

"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

"Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."

- Göran Persson

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Plato

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."

- Paulo Coehlo

"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

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

- Michael Altshuler

"A worthy New Year's resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose."

- Robert Brault

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Craig Lounsbrough

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

- Josiyah Martin

"You are never too old to reinvent yourself."

- Steve Harvey

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

- T.S. Eliot

"Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder—no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen—things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered."

- Candace Bushnell

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dan Millman

"It’s never too late—never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

- Jane Fonda

"You can find inspiration in everything. If you can’t, then you’re not looking properly."

- Paul Smith

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."

- Joseph Campbell

"Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst."

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"You don’t have to be perfect to help people. All you have to be is real."

- Trent Sheldon

"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

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- Brad Paisley

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Hillary DePiano

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

- Nick Frederickson

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

- Taylor Swift

"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

"Start over, my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to."

- Madalyn Beck

"So, I close my eyes to old ends, and open my heart to new beginnings."

- Mandy Hale

"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

"Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings."

- Peggy Toney Horton

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

- E. McD.

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"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

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

- Alex Morritt

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

- Vern McLellan

"Year-End Note to Self: It’s not too late. You are not behind. You are where you need to be."

- Marc & Angel Chernoff

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

- Nido Qubein

"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 is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Kelly Martin

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

- C.S. Lewis

"In 2024, I hope you find time to be happy. not just strong."

- Louise Kaufmann

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

- Susan Sontag

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

- ABBA

"Let’s turn over a new leaf, and baby let’s make promises that we can keep, and call it a New Year’s resolution."

- Otis Redding & Carla Thomas

"In [the new year], I will be too busy watering my own grass to notice if yours is greener."

- Marc & Angel Chernoff

"Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since."

- Dave Beard

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

- Alex Morritt

"The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."

- Joseph Campbell

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"God is so good to give us new days and New Years since He knows we need so many times to start over."

- Lacey Sturm

"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam."

- Charles Lamb

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

- Hillary DePiano

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

- Arthur Rubinstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!"

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

- Jenna Wolfe

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

- James Agate

"You are going to figure it out, but you don’t have to figure it out right now."

- Jacqueline Whitney

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

- Charles Lamb

"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

"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

"To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure."

- Ben Johnson

"The best is yet to come."

"Merry fitmas and a happy new rear."

"Less bitter, more glitter."

"But first, champagne."

"Cheers to the people who love us, the losers who lost us, and the lucky ones who still get to meet us."

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."

"8 p.m. is the new midnight."

"Another year bites the dust."

"Before I agree to 2024 I need to watch the trailer first."

"Let’s try this again…"

"New year. Who dis?"

"My New Year’s resolution is to remember to write 2024 instead of 2023."

"Some people swear there’s no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then, how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?"

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

"Pop, clink, fizz! (That’s Alka Seltzer, not champagne.)"

"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin."