50 New Year Quotes for Inspirational Beginnings and Goal Setting

”Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” – Joel Osteen

”For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

”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

”And now let us welcome the New Year, full of things that never were.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

” The beginning is always today.” —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

”It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

”Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shehbaz Sharif

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

”No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” – C. JoyBell C.

”New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb

”The New Year symbolizes the ending of one year and the beginning of yet another. We celebrate this event, yet it is only a moment in time, like any other day. But it is also considered a time when new beginnings can happen.” – Catherine Pulsifer

”As this New Year approaches find inspiration around you, and motivation within you, to be all that you can be.” – Kate Summers

”Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.”- John R. Dallas Jr.

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

”This cannot be the year of talking. Of wishing. Of wanting. This has to be the year, you get it done!” – Eric Thomas

”Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller

”New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.”- Sarah Ban Breathnach

”And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”- Rainer Maria Rilke

”This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” ― Taylor Swift

”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

”Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.” – Michael Josephson

”A new year brings not only happiness, but it also makes us happy with the hope to fulfill our dreams or a new beginning of our life. So, a new year is very special for everyone.” – Santonu Kumar Dhar

”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

”I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” – Neil Gaiman

”New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb

”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

”It’s New Year’s Day Hurray! Hurray! The old year’s past and gone away. We’ll raise our glasses and make a toast because this Now and this Present is what means the most.” – Sharon Gardner

”The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!” – Edward Payson Powell

”This bright new year is given me to live each day with zest, to daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!” – William Arthur Ward

”A brand new year could be considered the seed, and your goals could be the buds, but taking action and achieving your dreams, well, that is the flower. May the New Year be your seed and may you have lots of flowers to inspire you!” – Kate Summers

”Celebrate what you want to see more of.” – Tom Peters

”It Doesn’t Matter Where You Came From. All That Matters Is Where You Are Going.”- Brian Tracy

“The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.” – Hartley Coleridge

”New Year’s Eve, where an auld acquaintance is forgotten. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” – Jay Leno

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

”Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’” –Alfred Lord Tennyson

”With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

”I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” –Thomas Jefferson

”It is our attitude toward life that determines life’s attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.” – Earl Nightingale

”You will never win if you never begin.” – Helen Rowland

”I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” – Nick Frederickson

”Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

”Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” – Steven Spielberg

”Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley

”And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Meister Eckhart

“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

”We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” – Hillary DePiano

”A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments.” – Lailah Gifty Akita