175 Quotes To Celebrate The New Year

Happy New Year!

Every year, people around the world get a crack at a fresh start and new beginnings with the arrival of the New Year. Also, they say goodbye to what once was.

While some look on with excitement and welcome the new year with enthusiasm and optimism, others are just wishing for the current one to leave like an unwanted guest.

Many of us celebrate with parties, food, champagne, and fireworks all night. Also, in many cultures, people perform rituals, hoping to receive good luck and abundance in the upcoming year. Let’s not forget the resolutions that we challenge ourselves to fulfill.

New Year’s is so much more than fireworks and libations; it also represents change, letting go, introspection, rebirth, and anticipation of what’s to come.

To commemorate the New Year, here are some quotes that grant second chances, encourage you to pursue your goals, and look forward to a brighter future. Whether you need a little inspiration, a little bit of humor, or some spiritual uplifting, there is something for everyone on this list.

Happy New Year Quotes (1-7)

1. In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are humans. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.- Beyonce

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

3. “Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. “Sir Walter Scott

4. “Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of joy, 525600 minutes of good luck, and 31536000 seconds of happiness. Happy New Year!” -Unknown

5. “Celebrate what you want to see more of.”-Tom Peters

6. “We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we’re happier and healthier.”- Ellen Degeneres

1. “A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it. Let’s welcome the 365 days it brings.” -Anusha Atukorala

Inspirational New Year Quotes (8-21)

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

2. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the new year to come, whispering, “It’ll be happier.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

10. “Packaged inside 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

1. “To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.”-Bobby Bowden

12. “This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.”- Taylor Duvall

1. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you go. They merely determine where you start.”- Nido Qubein

1. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”- Albert Einstein

2. “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

3. “Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.”- Michael Josephson

4. “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”- Robert Brault

1. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”- Charles Lamb

2. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe there is a loving Source-a Sower of Dreams-just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.”- Sarah Ban Breathnach

3. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes of hope are found for the new year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

New Year’s Quotes About New Beginnings (22-34)

1. “New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” – Auliq Ice

2. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”- Taylor Swift

1. “ A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments.”- Lailah Gifty Akita

2. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” -Josiah Martin

3. “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”- Criss Jami

4. “Every time you tear a new leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress” – Charles Kettering

5. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

6. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”- T.S. Eliot

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

1. “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer

2. “As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection – a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.” Peggy Toney Horton

3. “It’s a new dawn, It’s a new day It’s a new life, for me,  And I’m feeling good- Nina Simone

4. “So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”- Florence Nightingale

New Year’s Quotes About New Chapters (35-39)

1. “I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.”- Juansen Dizon

2. “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

3. “New Year- a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” – Alex Morritt

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

5. “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

Quotes About Second Chances (40-47)

1. “It isn’t only a new year, it is a new chance for everyone to restart.”- Mohammed Sekouty

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

2. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”- Buddha

3. “Strength shows not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”- Guy Finley

5. “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

6. “Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.”- Tia Mowry

7. “Don’t think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a second chance…. it’s called tomorrow.”- Nicolas Sparks

New Year’s Quotes About Embracing Change (48-60)

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

2. “Life has no remote, so wake up and change it.”- Sushil Singh

3. “Red onion skins and New Year’s Eve have much in common- they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy.”- Alex Morritt

4. “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”-Karen Kaiser Clark

5. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.”- Kristin Kreuk

6. “On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.”- Akilnathan Logeswaran

7. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” -Mandy Hale

8. “We must change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9. “As we grow older and wiser, we begin to realize what we need and what we need to leave behind. Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow. And sometimes walking away is a step forward.” – Unknown

10. “The ending of year is also a time when serious people want real changes in their lives. Change offers a fresh new start, a new beginning, and rightly so.”- Boomy Tokan

11. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”- Socrates

12. “The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.- Maya Angelou

13. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”- Rumi

 

New Year’s Quotes About It Never Being Too Late Change Your Life (61-69)

1. “All of us every single year we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.” – Steven Spielberg

2. “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.”- Steve Harvey

3. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”- Germany Kent

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

5. “The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” Mehmet Murat ildan

6. “For what it’s worth…. It’s never too late to become whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope that you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. “Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.”- Unknown

8. “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

9. “It’s never too late-it’s never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”-Jane Fonda

New Year’s Quotes About Letting Go (70-75)

1. “Let go of what was and embrace what to be.”- Lailah Gifty Akita

2. “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

3. “To dress up in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.”- Craig D. Lounsbrough

4. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”- Guy Finley

5. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”- Oprah Winfrey

6. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.”- Joseph Campbell

 Quotes About Looking Ahead (76-86)

1. “What the new year brings to you will be a great deal of what you bring to the new year.”- Vera Mclellan

2. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”- C.S. Lewis.

3. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.- Hillary DePiano

4. “Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.”- Craig D. Lounsbrough

5. “New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of the future.”- Munia Khan

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

7. “The best is yet to come.” – Frank Sinatra

8. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”-  Abraham Lincoln

9. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”- Soren Kierkegaard

10. “As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.”- Barack Obama

11. “What we do today is more than what we plan to do in the future.”- Jack Hyles

New Year’s Quotes About Controlling Your Own Narrative (87-92)

1. “We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it a reality more than visionary.”- Nike Campbell- Fatoki

2. “Do you want to give a special gift to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate; we are the main designer of our destiny!”- Mehmet Murat ildan.

3. “It is not in the star to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”- William Shakespeare

4. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”-Ralph Waldo Enerson

5. “You have the pencil and paper in your hand, you write the story of the upcoming year. May your story be a year filled with positive happenings and successes, with few erase marks and full of exclamation marks.” – Theodore W. Higginsworth

6. “The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you’re the pilot.” -Michael Altshuler

New Year’s Resolution Quotes (93-99)

1. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”- Abraham Lincoln

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

3. “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

4. “Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is a part of the cycle.”-Eric Zorn

5. “It’s not the resolutions you make once a year that matter, but the ones you make with every single breath.”- Beau Taplin

6. “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.”- John Burroughs

7. “I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years.” – Henry Moore.

New Year’s Quotes About Setting & Pursuing Goals (100-105)

1. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”- C.S. Lewis

2. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can write that story by setting goals.”- Melody Beattie

3. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” – Albert Einstein.

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

5. “Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being, and becoming.”- Mike Dooley

6. “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

New Year’s Quotes About Following Your Dreams (106-109)

1. “In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude, and be passionate with your dreams.”- Bamigboye Olurotimi

2. “Enter this year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.”- Avina Celeste.

3. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler” – Henry David Thoreau

4. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

New Year’s Quotes About Taking That First Step (110-118)

1. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”- Plato

2. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” -Alan Cohen

3. “You will never win if you never begin.”- Helen Rowland

4. “Whatever you are scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” – Neil Gaiman

5. “A year from now, you will wish you started today.”- Karen Lamb

6. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are”- J.P. Morgan

7. “Begin what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” Francis Bacon, Sr.

8. “One day you will realize there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”- Paulo Coelho

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

New Year’s Quotes About Self-Improvement & Growth (119-126)

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

2. “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

3. “Forget what we have become, what matters is what we’ve become, and our potentials to overcome.”- Aniekee Tochukwu

4. “Listen. I wish that I could tell you that it gets better. But it doesn’t get better. You get better.” Joan Rivers

5. “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”- Emile Coue

6. “Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.” – Joanne Raptis

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

1. “Another fresh new year is here…..

Another year to live!

To banish worry, doubt, and fear,

To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year has given me

To live each day with zest…..

To daily grow and try to be

My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity

Once more to right some wrongs,

To pray for peace, to plant a tree,

And sing more joyful songs!”  -William Arthur Ward

Biblical Verses for the New Year (127-134)

1. “May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.”- Psalm 20:4

2. “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.”-Proverbs 16:9

3. “You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.”- Leviticus 26:10

4. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

5. “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint.” – Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)

6. “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”- Psalm 118:24 (NLT)

7. “Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.”- Job 8:7 (KJV)

8. Rejoice in hope, be patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.- Romans 12:12 (NIV)

Spiritual New Year’s Quotes (135-150)

1. “May God bring to you warmth of love and a light to guide your path towards a positive destination. Happy New Year!” – Unknown

2. “New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called soul, with best chords called experiences and play the guitar called life.”- Vikrmn

3. “Now the New Year reviving old desires, the thoughtful soul to solitude retires.” -Omar Khayyam

4. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, and a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”- Gilbert K. Chesterton

5. “We joyfully pray with grateful heart’s to welcome blessings in the New Year.”- Lailah Gifty Akita

6. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”- Shauna Niequist

7. “If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!”- Matthew Simpson

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

143. “Every day I feel a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”- Prince

1. “In his wisdom God does not show us all that lies ahead. So we enter a new year to live it day by day. Each day let us follow more faithfully, more courageously, more daringly the lead of our great Captain who bids us follow Him.”- William Thomson Hanzsche

2. “Our quitting point is God’s beginning point.”- Woodrow Kroll

3. “A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.- Charles Finney

4. “Faith….involves trusting in the future promise of God and waiting for their fulfillment.” -R.C. Sproul

5. “God specializes in giving people a fresh start.”- Rick Warren

6. “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 Olsteen

7. “Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.”- Lailah Gifty Akita

Humorous New Year’s Quotes (151-160)

1. “Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think that it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”- Helen Fielding

2. “New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”- Mark Twain

3. “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”- Oscar Wilde

4. “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle Age is when you’re forced to.”- Bill Vaughn

5. “Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!”- D.S. Mixell

6. “Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. “My New Year’s resolution was going to be to quit all my bad habits, but then it occurred to me-no one likes a quitter.”- Unknown

8. “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

9. “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! “ – Aleister Crowley

10. “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year…..and out the other!”- Unknown

End of Year Quotes (161-165)

1. “Years end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”- Hal Borland

2. “Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.”- Mehmet Murat ildan

3. “Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky

The flying cloud, the frosty light:

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow;

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind

For those that here we see no more;

Ring out the feud of rich and poor,

Ring in to redress all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife;

Ring in the nobler modes of life,

With sweeter manners, purer laws.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

1. “Midnight on New Year’s Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and future exist at once in the present.” – Hillary DePiano

2. “In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!”!-Mehmet Murat ildan

 Quotes About Endings Turning Into Beginnings (166-175)

1. Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year! – Mehmet Murat İldan

2. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.- Seneca

3. “Celebrate endings- for they predict new beginnings”- Jonathan Huie

169.“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”- Craig D. Lounsbrough

1. “I close my eyes to old ends, and open my heart to new beginnings.”- Nick Frederickson

2. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” -Neale Donald Walsch

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

4. “The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.”- Craig D. Lounsbrough

5. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”- T.S. Eliot

6. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”- Mother Theresa

 

What are your favorite New Year’s quotes? I would love to hear about them in the comments.

Happy New Year!

Until next time!

Thanks for reading.

Yours Truly,

Tracy