The start of a new year brings a sense of excitement and hope. It’s a time to leave behind the old and look forward to fresh opportunities. Whether you’re aiming for personal growth, setting new goals, or simply wanting some inspiration, New Year quotes can be a great source of motivation.
In this blog, we’ve gathered 11+ inspiring quotes that will help you kickstart your year with a positive mindset and a clear focus on your dreams and aspirations.
- “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
- “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” —Steven Spielberg
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
- “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings.” —Peggy Toney Horton
- “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
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” —Kelly Martin
- “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
- “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
- “Begin doing what you want to do now.” —Francis Bacon Sr.
- “A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding.” —C.J. Cherryh
- “Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” —Michael Josephson
- “The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings.” —Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” —David McCullough Jr.
- “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” —John R. Dallas Jr.
- “Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” —Unknown
- “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
- “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” —Charles Lamb
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
- “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” —Hillary DePiano
- “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” —Karen Kaiser Clark
- “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.” —Peggy Toney Horton
- “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” —Arthur Rubenstein
- “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
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” —William E. Vaughan
- “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” —Anne Frank
- “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” —Socrates
- “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” —Steven Spielberg
- “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent
- “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” —Catherine Pulsifer
- “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” —Oscar Wilde
- “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
- “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” —Mandy Hale
- “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk
- “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” —Plato
- “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein
- “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
- “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
- “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” —T.S. Eliot
- “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
- “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
- “Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” —Unknown
- “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” —John R. Dallas Jr.
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis
- “Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!” ―D.S. Mixell
- “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
- “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
- “On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” ―Akilnathan Logeswaran
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coehlo
- “This year’s journey will depend on what you bring to it. Never forget the power of fresh starts.” —Vern McLellan
- “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
Short New Year Quotes
- “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
- “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” —Charles Lamb
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
- “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” —Buddha
- “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” —The Incredibles
- “Ring out the old, ring in the new.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” —Lao Tzu
- “Let the past make you better, not bitter.” —Unknown
- “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Your future is whatever you make it.” —Back to the Future
- “It’s time to trust your instincts, close your eyes, and leap.” —Wicked
- “We are all fools in love.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” —The Princess Diaries
- “Adventure is out there!” —Up
- “You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” —The Wizard of Oz
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” —Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw
Funny New Year Quotes
- “Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” —Frank Scully
- “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
- “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” —Joey Adams
- “New year, old you.” ― A.D. Aliwat
- “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” —Oscar Wilde
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan
- “Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” —F.M. Knowles
- “Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.” – Temitope Ibrahim
- “Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!” ―D.S. Mixell
- “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” —David Bowie
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” —William E. Vaughan
- “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
- “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” —Joey Adams
- “I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I didn’t become a better person.” —Unknown
- “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” —Unknown
- “I have decided that my 2025 starts on February 1st. January is a free trial month.” —Unknown
- “Cheers to making better bad decisions this year!” —Unknown
- “New Year, same me—because I’m fabulous and don’t need fixing.” —Unknown
- “This year, my resolution is to be less awesome… because it’s really exhausting being the best.” —Unknown
Inspirational New Year Quotes
- “Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” —Unknown
- “Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” —Alex Morritt
- “Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties,” -Helen Keller
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” —Albert Einstein
- “New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” —Auliq Ice
- “Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” —Mike Dooley
- “With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.” ―Holly Black
- “We are the authors of our destinies.” ―Nike Campbell-Fatoki
- “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma
- “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
- “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou
- “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
- “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –Plato
- “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” —Emilie Coue
- “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica S. Yourko
- “JANUARY, The first month of the year, A perfect time to start all over again.” – Charmaine J. Forde
- “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” —Neil Gaiman
- “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” —Shauna Niequist
- “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
- “New beginnings always start in the here-and-now.” – Richelle E. Goodman
- “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” —Nick Frederickson
New Year’s Eve Quotes
- “The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” ― P.J. O’Rourke
- “Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!” ―Ogden Nash
- “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
- “So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Year’s Eve Party.” ― Stephen Chbosky
- “On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” ―Akilnathan Logeswaran
- “As a kid, I thought the song Auld Lang Syne was called Old Man’s Eye. I like my version better.” ― Stewart Stafford
- “You staying home all alone on New Year’s Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice … the countdown should be shared with someone, or it’s just another set of numbers passing you by.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
- “There are proponents of New Year’s Eve, and there are proponents of regular Tuesday nights.” ― Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- “The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change we believe that we can change with it.” ― R. Joseph Hoffmann
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
- “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
Conclusion
Starting a new year brings the excitement of fresh possibilities and new beginnings. Use these quotes to motivate you to pursue your dreams and make the most of every moment. Cheers to a new year full of opportunities, growth, and success!
