Top 50 New Year Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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2. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

3. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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4. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

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5. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

— Jim Rohn

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6. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

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7. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

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8. “Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”

— Jim Rohn

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9. “The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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10. “You can do it if you believe you can.”

— Napoleon Hill

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11. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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12. “Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.”

— Marsha Petrie Sue

13. “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

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14. “Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.”

— Laozi

15. “I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.”

— Kristin Armstrong

16. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.”

— Charles F. Kettering

17. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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18. “Let us thank God for life and the blessings He’s put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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20. “Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give.”

— William Arthur Ward

21. “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.”

— Susan Sontag

22. “Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.”

— Joel Osteen

23. “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!”

— Aleister Crowley

24. “When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.”

— Bob Marley

25. “A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!”

— Charles Dickens

26. “My new years resolution? I will be less laz...”

— Jim Gaffigan

27. “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

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28. “A new heart for a New Year, always!”

— Charles Dickens

29. “This bright new year is given me.”

— William Arthur Ward

30. “I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.”

— Amy Poehler

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31. “With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

32. “If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.”

— Cyril Cusack

33. “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

34. “In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.”

— Shakira

35. “Have your new year’s resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old beginning? Maybe now’s the time to establish a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

36. “Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”

— Jonathan Edwards

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37. “We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

— Nelson Mandela

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38. “In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.”

— Kate Spade

39. “I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.”

— William Arthur Ward

40. “I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.”

— Milton Berle

41. “I have a New Year’s tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.”

— Rick Steves

42. “But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.”

— André Gide

43. “It’s a new year, new year, new money, money!”

— Rick Ross

44. “On New Year’s Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them.”

— Nick Hornby

45. “Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.”

— Charles Dickens

46. “My new year’s resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.”

— Zayn Malik

47. “I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year’s Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.”

— Robert Orben

48. “So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party.”

— Stephen Chbosky

49. “I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year’s it flew away.”

— Milton Berle

50. “Happy day after Christmas and a merry rest of the year! Even when Christmas is over, the light of the world is still here.”

— Matthew West

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