Inspiring New Year's Eve Quotes to Ignite Your Spirit

"You are never too old to reinvent yourself."

- Steve Harvey

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Vern McLellan

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are."

- J.P. Morgan

"A new year. A fresh, clean start! It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!"

- Bill Watterson

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

- Plato

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Nibo Qubein

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

- T.S. Eliot

"Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year."

- John R. Dallas Jr.

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Melody Beattie

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Jim Rohn

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"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

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Alex Morritt

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

- Albert Einstein

"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."

- George William Curtis

"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"New Year’s Day is a good time to fix one’s eyes on the only way to begin the year as we should: in humility."

- Elisabeth Elliot

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

- Karen Kaiser Clark

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws but for potential."

- Ellen Goodman

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

- Michael Altshuler

"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

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

- Meister Eckhart

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Buddha

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

- Michael Josephson

"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

"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

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

- Jay Leno

"The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happy New Year! Let's go get the sh** kicked out of us by love!"

- Sam, Love Actually (2003)

"Let your new energy, new thoughts, new attitude, new routine & new outlook make this time most sacred, memorable & beautiful for you & others. Let you also begin to see greater in everything & believe in unexplainable possibilities. Let you grow in ways which you never knew was possible."

- Rajesh Goyal

"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

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

- George Eliot

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten."

- Natasha Bedingfield, "Unwritten," Unwritten

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

- Susan Sontag

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

- T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

"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

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

- Brad Paisley

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"My dear, when you love someone, and they break your heart, don't give up on love. Have faith, restart, and you will find love again."

- Ingrid, New Year's Eve (2011)

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance."

- Lee Ann Womack

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"It's a time when we all want something better. A chance to begin again."

- Elf (2003)

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

- Seneca

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- Alex Morritt

"Midnight on New Year’s Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present."

- Hillary DePiano

"What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"When you’re young, you’re encouraged to try new things. At a certain age, nobody says that to you anymore. If you’re lucky enough to be alive, why not say ‘yes’ to all of it at any age?"

- Mary Steenburgen

"No brooding over old worries, let's start a new series. Forget about all the negativities, think of new possibilities. Here to conquering a new frontier, that's all I wish in the upcoming new year."

- Shon Mehta

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

- Alfred Tennyson

"To new beginnings. Everyone deserves a new beginning."

- The Holiday (2006)

"The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine."

- Frank Sinatra, "The Best Is Yet to Come," It Might as Well Be Swing

"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

"Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on."

- Hal Borland

"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

"Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year."

- John R. Dallas Jr.

"In every changing season, may we find a reason to stand in awe, appreciate, and cherish every view."

- Oscar Auliq-Ice

"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

"But to see the new year in, it's time to face the future with an open heart."

- Leopold, Kate and Leopold (2001)

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

- Munia Khan

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."

- Wally Lamb

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

- Josiyah Martin

"Every end is a new beginning."

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

"As the clock strikes midnight, may your dreams take flight. Happy New Year!"

"Celebrate the past, embrace the future and dance your way into the New Year."

"The past is gone, it went by like dusk to dawn."

"Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future."

"My New Year’s resolution is to stop hanging out with people who ask me about my New Year’s resolutions."

- Anonymous

"As the year comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future."

"I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person."

- Anonymous

"Each new year is a gift of learning, growth, and hope."

"I have decided that this will be a very good year."

"The new year is not just about a change in the calendar; it’s about setting fresh goals, embracing new opportunities, and believing in your own potential."

"The new year is a time to let go of what was and embrace what is to come."

"Here’s to those who inspire us and don’t even know it."

"I’m staying up on New Year’s Eve not to see the new year in, but to make sure the old one leaves."

"A New Year means a new chapter. May yours be filled with joy."

"A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other."

"Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself."

- Anonymous