33 New Year Quotes

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Are you ready for 2021? Here are 33 new year quotes to gear you up for the occasion!

1. A new heart for a New Year, always! ―Charles Dickens
2. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ―Winston Churchill
3. What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet. ―Anne Frank
4. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ―John D. Rockefeller
5. 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
6. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day . . . is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. 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
8. You are never too old to reinvent yourself. ―Steve Harvey
9. Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage. ―Susan Sontag
10. 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
11. The beginning is the most important part of any work. ―Plato
12. You will never win if you never begin. ―Helen Rowland
13. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever. ―Neil Gaiman
14. A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now. ―Phil McGraw
15. Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start. ―Nido Qubein
16. In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate with your dreams. ―Bamigboye Olurotimi
17. The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all. ―Josiyah Martin
18. Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. ―Robin Sharma
19. Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings. ―Jonathan Huie
20. Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year! ―Mehmet Murat ildan
21. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ―Maya Angelou
22. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. ―Alan Cohen
23. You do not find the happy life. You make it. ―Camilla Eyring Kimball
24. Tomorrow is the first black page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. ―Brad Paisley
25. 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
26. Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better. ―Joan Rivers
27. Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it. ―Craig D. Lounsbrough
28. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are. ―J.P. Morgan
29. New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. ―Alex Morritt
30. You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do. ―Dr. Seuss
31. For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. ―T.S. Eliot
32. 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
33. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ―Benjamin Franklin

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