New Year’s quotes can get us into the mindset of a “New Year, New Me!”. And while we may need the inspiration to kick off the New Year, these quotes are not only meant to jolt us into new beginnings, but to live by them everyday.
These quotes are a compilation of many motivational speakers who use them in their own seminars and speeches. I thought it is only apt to gather them here to kick off our journey into the New Year.
Whatever you do after reading this, try to choose at least one quote to live by this year.
1:
“Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.”
– Johnathan Huie
2:
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
– T.S. Eliot
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
3:
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin
4:
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey
5:
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
6:
“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
7:
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
8:
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
– Paulo Coehlo
9:
“Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Years Resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!”
– D.S. Mixell
10:
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.”
– Anne Frank
11:
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
– Oscar Wilde
12:
“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
13:
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates
14:
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis
15:
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
– Albert Einstein
16:
“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
17:
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
– LAO TZU
18:
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
19:
“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
20:
“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”
– Louise Hay
21:
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
– Paulo Coelho
22:
“Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.“
– Dennis E. Adonis
23:
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King
24:
“Last year told you what you needed to know. Now it’s go-time. “
– Richie Norton
25:
“A year from now, you will wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb
In Conclusion
Inspirational new year’s quotes are a good reminder of what matters in life. They are a quick read of things that we need to accomplish, do, and be. Pin these images and also print them and place them in your office or an area of your home that you often glance at. They are a good reminder throughout the year. Because at the end of the day, a new year or a new year’s quote is a opportunity to treat each new day with the excitement we feel every new year.
Related: read here about making and keep new years resolutions that stick.
What quotes do you live by?
Happy New Year to you and yours!
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Article last updated December 31st, 2021
