100 Inspiring New Year Quotes to Ignite Your Fresh Start

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Buddha

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Pope Benedict XVI

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

- Brad Paisley

"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)

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

- Taylor Swift

"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

"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

"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

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

- Peter Drucker

"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

"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

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

- Cavett Robert

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

- Nido Qubein

"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 Lounsbrough

"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

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Ted Williams

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- George Clooney

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- George Addair

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Matt Damon

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Hillary DePiano

"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

"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

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- E. McD.

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

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Charles Swindoll

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

- David Sedaris

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Judy Garland

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Jude Law

"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

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

- Josephine Baker

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Steve Wozniak

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

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dr. Dre

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

- Peter Dinklage

"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 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

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

- Susan Sontag

"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

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

- L.M. Montgomery

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"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

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

- Caterina Fake

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

- John Henry Newman

"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

"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

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

- Anthony T. Hincks

"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

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

- Hillary DePiano

"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

"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

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

- Robert Browning

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

- Joyce Meyer

"We choose to go to the moon."

- President John F. Kennedy

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

- Samuel Beckett

"Every sunset is an opportunity to reset."

- Richie Norton

"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

"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

"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

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

- Tom Peters

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Carrie Fisher

"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

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

- Mason Cooley

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

- Steven Spielberg

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

- Robert Burns

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

- David Brower

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

- Charles Lamb

"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

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- A.G. Howard

"Lean in."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Kelly Martin

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Katherine May

"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

"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

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

- Galileo Galilei

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

- Henry Moore

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

- Yoko Ono

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"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

"Everything nourishes what is strong already."

- Jane Austen

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

- Beryl Markham

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

- David Bowie

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

- Ann Patchett

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

- Seun Ayilara

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

- Dave Beard

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

- Norman Maclean

"And that’s the way it is."

- Walter Cronkite

"Where can we live but days?"

- Philip Larkin

"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

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

- Terri Guillemets

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

- William Blake

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

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

- Ljupka Cvetanova

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

- Philip Barry

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

- Yogi Berra

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Terri Guillemets

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

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

- Phil McGraw

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

- William Cullen Bryant

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

- Natalie Portman

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Robert Fulghum

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

- Aeschylus

"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

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

- W. C. Fields

"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

"New year, old you."

- A.D. Aliwat

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

- William Shakespeare

"Time takes all and gives all."

- Giordano Bruno

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

- Lew Brown

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

- James Agate

"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

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

- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."

- Mark Twain

"January is the calendar’s ingrown hair."

- Stewart Stafford

"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

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

"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."