100 Inspiring New Year Quotes to Ignite Your Fresh Start

"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

"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

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Brad Paisley

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

- Peter Drucker

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you…. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way."

- Tim Ferriss

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Mark Cuban

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."

- Pope Benedict XVI

"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

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

- Cavett Robert

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

- Josiyah Martin

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

- Buddha

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Hillary DePiano

"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

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

- Charles Lamb

"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

"Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- Alex Morritt

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Henry Ford

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

- David Sedaris

"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

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- Vern McLellan

"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

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

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Brad Paisley

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Charles Kettering

"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

"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. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"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

"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

"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."

- Goran Persson

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach."

- Steve Wozniak

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine Baker

"Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently."

- Sara Blakely

"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."

- Jude Law

"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Fear of looking stupid is the No. 1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else’s life."

- Anthony Moore

"I’ve grown most not from victories but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."

- Serena Williams

"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage"

- Matt Damon

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."

- Marcel Proust

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- George Addair

"Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

- George Clooney

"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."

- Ted Williams

"No failure means no risk, which means nothing new"

- Richard Branson

"I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started."

- Wendy Kopp

"So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

"I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."

- Daniel Day-Lewis

"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet"

- Dr. Dre

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- E. McD.

"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"

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- Plato

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

- Susan Sontag

"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."

- Steven Spielberg

"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

- David Bowie

"The ticking clock of the New Year reminds us: time is not to be spent, but invested wisely in purpose and meaning."

- Aloo Denish Obiero

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- Joyce Meyer

"We choose to go to the moon."

- President John F. Kennedy

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."

- Nelson Mandela

"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"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 sunset is an opportunity to reset."

- Richie Norton

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Samuel Beckett

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

- Tom Peters

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

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Karen Kaiser Clark

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Albert Camus

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying."

- Mason Cooley

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

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Robert Burns

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

- Anne Lamott

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"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

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

- Munia Khan

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

- Hillary DePiano

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Michael Josephson

"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

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

- Kelly Martin

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

- Dale Carnegie

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'."

- Henry Moore

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

- ABBA

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

- Alex Morritt

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- A.G. Howard

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

"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

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."

- Sally Field

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Let us begin. Let us restore the Earth. Let the mountains talk, and the rivers run."

- David Brower

"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

- Galileo Galilei

"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment."

- Samuel Johnson

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time."

- Julia Child

"Everything nourishes what is strong already."

- Jane Austen

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

- Yoko Ono

"Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible."

- Katherine May

"Lean in."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"No horizon is so far that you cannot get above or beyond it."

- Beryl Markham

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

- Charles Lamb

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Aristotle

"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

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

- David Bowie

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

- Terri Guillemets

"Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now."

- Phil McGraw

"And that’s the way it is."

- Walter Cronkite

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it."

- Norman Maclean

"Forever — is composed of Nows — / ‘Tis not a different time — / Except for Infiniteness — / And Latitude of Home —"

- Emily Dickinson

"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."

- Jonathan Edwards

"It is a mere exchange of calendars. If you are not new, It is not new."

- Seun Ayilara

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."

- William Cullen Bryant

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

- Dave Beard

"The time to make your mind up about people, is never."

- Philip Barry

"Don’t take the new year too seriously. The only thing you should do is welcome her and send her away."

- Ljupka Cvetanova

"Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?"

- Ann Patchett

"It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

- Yogi Berra

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!"

- Aleister Crowley

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

- William Blake

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

- Terri Guillemets

"Winter sunset can be a particularly good time for a small daily ritual: making a sunset tea tray, with a hot drink and a little treat, pairs something often seen as negative (the early darkness) with something delightful to reclaim sunset as a time for pleasure."

- Kari Leibowitz

"Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture."

- Natalie Portman

"Where can we live but days?"

- Philip Larkin

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

- James Agate

"Life is just a bowl of cherries, / Don’t take it too serious; it’s too mysterious."

- Lew Brown

"If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone."

- Robert Fulghum

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

- Mark Twain

"I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?"

- Mary-Kate Olsen

"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"

- Aeschylus

"New year, old you."

- A.D. Aliwat

"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

"I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home."

- W. C. Fields

"Time takes all and gives all."

- Giordano Bruno

"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

"Everything that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment."

- William Shakespeare

"Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose."

- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

"No, Thursday’s out. How about never — is never good for you?"

- Bob Mankoff

"New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive."

- Jay Leno

"January is the calendar’s ingrown hair."

- Stewart Stafford

"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."

- Mark Twain

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

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

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous