Ring in the New Year with these best 80 inspirational New Year quotes.
Ready or not, the New Year is HERE!
How are you feeling — excited, overwhelmed or maybe a little unsure?
With the cheers and celebration, we sometimes get caught up in the crowd and lose sight of what we truly want for ourselves in the year ahead. The hopes, dreams, and intentions we carry for the next 365 days often get pushed to the side.
To help you stay focused and find inspiration, we’ve gathered 80 of the best New Year quotes to empower and motivate you. These thoughtful words are an invitation to pause, reflect, and consider how you want to shape your journey in the days ahead.
Remember, nothing is set in stone.
Each moment is a fresh opportunity to create the life you envision.
80 New Year Quotes
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca
“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.
“Start over, my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to.” — Madalyn Beck
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan
“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
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” — Anne Frank
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley
“So, I close my eyes to old ends, and open my heart to new beginnings.” — Mandy Hale
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” — Fred DeVito
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” — Alex Morritt
“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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson
“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
“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
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” — Unknown
“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
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” — John R. Dallas Jr.
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” — Karen Kaiser Clark
“The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult, however, to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page.” — R. Joseph Hoffmann
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” —Buddha
“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” — Kristin Kreuk
“Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.” — Joanne Raptis
It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
“Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” — Kelly Martin
“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
“Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” — Unknown
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” — F.M. Knowles
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” ― Hillary DePiano
“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
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates
“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 new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” — Oscar Wilde
“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
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” — Steve Harvey
“Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” — Alex Morritt
“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.”― Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” — Nick Frederickson
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
“The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
“Be the girl who decided to go for it.” — Unknown
“We joyfully pray with grateful hearts to welcome blessings in New Year.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
“We are the authors of our destinies.” ― Nike Campbell-Fatoki
“With the dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.”― Holly Black
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” — Joey Adams
“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” — David McCullough Jr.
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.” – William Jennings Bryan
“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
“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
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
“We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” — Hillary DePiano
“A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” — Phil McGraw
“This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!” —William Arthur Ward
“Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” — Michael Josephson
“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
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coehlo
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ― Germany Kent
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” — Charles Lamb
“Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.” — Natasha Bedingfield
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding…and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.” — C.J. Cherryh
“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” — Mike Dooley
“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
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” — David Bowie
New Year, New Beginning
Whatever emotions this New Year may bring you, let the wisdom of these quotes inspire deeper thoughts on your goals, dreams and actions.
The world is your oyster — write your story, your way, your style.
Wishing you a Happy New Year!
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