If you’re stumped on what to include in your Happy New Year messages this year, a quote might be just what you’re looking for. Check out these New Year quotes to welcome in the next 365 days. You’ll find famous Motivational New Year quotations and New Year Resolution Quotes to getting you thinking about the year ahead.
Motivational New Year Quotes
These motivational quotes for the New Year will help you shine a spotlight on the opportunity the turning of a year brings. Take the bull by the horns this year and do so with a few wise words.
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler
“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
“One thing with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”
– Michael Cibeuko
“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
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.”
– T.S Eliot
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
”Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”
– Brad Paisley
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
– Taylor Swift
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.”
– Alfred Tennyson
“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
“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
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.”
– G.K. Chesterton
New Year Resolution Quotes
These New Years Resolution quotes will offer up just the right amount of inspiration to help you stick to your promises this year.
“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
“One resolution I have made and try always to keep is this: To rise above the little things.”
– John Burroughs
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.”
– John R. Dallas Jr.
“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Good resolutions are simple checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
– Albert Einstein
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”
– Cavett Robert
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.”
– Cyril Cusack
“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
Religious New Year Quotes
“Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.”
– Martin Luther
“The only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.”
– Phillips Brooks
“Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.”
– Alexander MacLaren
“God specializes in giving people a fresh start.”
– Rick Warren
“Faith…involves trusting in the future promises of God and waiting for their fulfillment.”
– R. C. Sproul
“Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.”
– Ellen Goodman
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
– 2 Corinthians 5:17
“Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
– Jim Elliot
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
– Jonathan Edwards