Wwo! it’s 45+ New Year’s Quotes and Sayings. As you know, January is an exciting month because we get to start off a new year with new goals and resolutions. We also can look back at the accomplishments we have had the past year which was definitely exciting for us!
It’s a new year, with love and tender, resolutions, more effort, race, work and optimism. New Year’s Quotes and Sayings for all people.
New Year’s Quotes & Inspirational Saying – Images
Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to. ~ Bill Vaughn
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
Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities. ~ Michael Josephson – whatwillmatter.com
When then is lost, as time is by,
we look upon the yearly wine
to see our substance in the lees.
Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave?
To look for clear and faithful sense,
that gives a bodied stance bouquet,
then see the vat at mirror’s face
and find in it, the yearly pace. ~ E. Marshall – Vintner Epilogue (Happy Old Year)
Best New Year’s Quotes
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
We spend January 1 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
We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~ Thomas Mann
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. ~ P.J. O’Rourke
The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~ W.H. Auden
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~ Edward Payson Powell
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. ~ G.K. Chesterton
New Year’s Inspirational Sayings
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~ George William Curtis
The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~ Hartley Coleridge
Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
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 – In Memoriam A.H.H., 1833
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson – In Memoriam A.H.H., 1833
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~ John Burroughs
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~ Charles Lamb
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient short comings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion. ~ Mark Twain
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~ Charles Lamb – “New Year’s Eve,” in The London Magazine, January 1821
New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~ Jay Leno
Inspirational Quotes for a Prosperous New Year
New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~ Charles Lamb
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. ~ John Selden
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. ~ Joey Adams
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since. ~ Dave Beard
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~ Author Unknown
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. ~ William Thomas
New Year Short Quotes
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. ~ Henry Moore
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~ AnaĂŻs Nin
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool. ~ F.M. Knowles
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~ Oscar Wilde
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~ T.S. Eliot – “Little Gidding”
Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle, if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but, on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take interest in the things that are and are to be, and not in the things that were and are past. ~ Henry Ward Beecher – “A Completed Year,” 1882 December 31st (quoted in Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Vol. V, Printed from Mr. T.J. Ellinwood’s Stenographic Reports)
New Year grateful Quotes
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. ~ Jean Paul Richter
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer. ~ Walter Scott
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~ Brooks Atkinson
Comes now a smiling New-Born Year
To fill to-day with goodly cheer—
An infant hale and lusty.
Upon our door-sill he is left
By Daddy Time, of clothes bereft
Despite the season gusty.
If he be Churl or doughty Knight,
A Son of Darkness or of Light
No man can tell, God bless him!
But be he base or glorious
Time puts it wholly up to us
To dress him! ~ John Kendrick Bangs – (1862-1922), “The New-Born Year” (January First), The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse For Every Day, 1920
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~ Oprah Winfrey
But then I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you? Since, because it’s an extension of New Year’s Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ~ Helen Fielding – “Sunday 1 January,” Bridget Jones’s Diary, 1996
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~ André Gide
Great New Year’s Quotes and Sayings
Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ~ Quoted in Benjamin Franklin’s 1755 Poor Richard’s Almanac – December (Thanks, Garson O’Toole! quoteinvestigator.com)
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. ~ Michael Josephson – whatwillmatter.com
And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,
And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury –
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen. ~ Thomas Hood
And now from yonder hill the sun’s bright beams
Shine through the mist, and flood the world with light;
The path winds on, leaving our broken dreams
Of tangled briar and brake far out of sight.
The dawn of hope has come our heart to cheer;
The path before us shines in the sun’s ray.
We follow on, into the coming year,
And in hope’s sunshine greet each op’ning day. ~ Lilian Pearce
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
A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~ Author Unknown
A new oath holds pretty well; but… when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~ Mark Twain – speech, New York City, 1885 March 31st
A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year. ~ Edgar Guest