New Year Quotes

Start your year off right with these best New Year’s quotes! Let these inspiring words guide you toward a positive and successful year ahead. Whether you’re looking for motivation or reflection, these New Year quotes will help you kick off the year with purpose and positivity.

New Year Quotes

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein

Resolve to keep happy with these positive affirmations and life quotes. They are on little cards that you can put where you notice them every day to help stay positive.

You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hey friend, don’t you dare forget, as you’re creating a new you, that there’s a whole lot about the old you that is worth keeping. Toni Sorenson

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  

Inspirational New Year Quotes

Ready for a fresh start?  Use these quotes to motivate you to have the best life this year!

We spend January 1st 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 

There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world because you realize there’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on. Zayn Malik

Make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. Toni Sorenson

For a change, don’t add new things in your life as a new year’s resolution. Instead, do more of what’s already working for you and stop doing things that are time-waste. Salil Jha

New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. Alex Morritt

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year. Vern McLellan

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas. Charles Kettering

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tony Robbins

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You do not find a happy life. You make it. Camilla Eyring Kimball

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.TS Eliot

You will never win if you never begin. Helen Rowland

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet. Anne Frank

Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Dan Millman

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Henry David Thoreau

It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. Paulo Coehlo

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller

Dear past, thanks for all the lessons. Dear future, I am ready.

A year from now you will wish you had started today. Karen Lamb

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

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny. David O. McKay

I hope these Happy New Year quotes help to motivate you to keep learning living pushing and excelling.

Neil Gaiman says it best, “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” 

Now that you’re feeling inspired by these New Year quotes and ready to set some goals, make a plan with these goal planning worksheets. Then, have some fun marking them off with this free printable goal bingo!

Happy New Year!

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