Top 40 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. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Marsha Petrie Sue

4. “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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5. “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

6. “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

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

— Charles F. Kettering

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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9. “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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Bob Marley

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Jim Gaffigan

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— William Arthur Ward

21. “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

22. “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

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

— Cyril Cusack

24. “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

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

— Shakira

26. “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

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

— Jonathan Edwards

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

— Nelson Mandela

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29. “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

30. “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

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

— Milton Berle

32. “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

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

— André Gide

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

— Rick Ross

35. “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

36. “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

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

— Zayn Malik

38. “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

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

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— Milton Berle

41. “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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