New Year Quotes to Inspire You for the Year Ahead
Looking for some new year quotes to use as inspiration before you enter 2025? Same here!
We’ve compiled a list of 80 of our favorite Happy New Year quotes that will give you the motivation to enter 2025 with a bang. Read through this list, and be sure to write down your favorites so you can refer back to them throughout the year!
1. “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
2. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton
3. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
4. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin
5. “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” — Tom Peters
6. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
7. “When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
8. “Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.” — Avina Celeste
9. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin
10. “We are the authors of our destinies.” ― Nike Campbell-Fatoki
11. “A New Year…a fresh, clean start. It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on.” — Bill Watterson
12. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
13. “I can and I will. Watch me.” — Unknown
14. “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.” — Göran Persson
15. “A worthy New Year’s resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose.” ― Robert Brault
16. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
17. “Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
18. “New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give, how you will live.” — Tony Robbins
19. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
20. “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” — Emilie Coue
21. “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
22. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi
23. “The past is gone. Let’s begin these 365 new opportunities!” — Maxime Lagacé
24. “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
25. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
26. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
27. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” — Neil Gaiman
28. “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” — Anne Frank
29. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
31. “The New Year stands before us like a chapter in a book waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
32. “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” — Charles Lamb
34. “Life is about change; sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” — Kristin Kreuk
35. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
36. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
37. “I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it, and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared, and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year’s Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.” — V.C. Andrews
38. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
39. “Never make a resolution which won’t be as important on the eighth of April or the tenth of July as it is on the first of January.” — Cary Grant
40. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau
42. “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” — Mary Oliver
43. “You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.” — James R. Sherman
44. “You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” — Charlie Brown
45. “The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” — Josh Campbell
46. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
47. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” — Germany Kent
48. “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
49. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King
50. “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
51. “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately, we write it. The choice is ours.” — Alex Morritt
52. “Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we’d like each other a little more.” — Judy Garland
53. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
54. “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” — Susan Sontag
55. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” — T. S. Eliot
56. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs
57. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
58. “Every year, you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself.” — Unknown
59. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
60. “Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” — Unknown
61. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
62. “Let’s celebrate the inception of improved us, not the new year.” — Mohith Agadi
63. “The past has no power over the present moment.” — Eckhart Tolle
64. “I think the more unexpected something is, the more there is to learn from it.” — Michael J. Fox
65. “If you don’t find your passion in your paycheck, go find it somewhere else.” — Sara Haines
66. “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
67. “Three hundred and sixty-five sunrises to start over.” — E. McD.
68. “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
69. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” — David Bowie
70. “Dear Future, I am ready.” — Unknown
71. “May we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbor is a friend. Happy New Year.” — ABBA
72. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
73. “In this new year, be grateful that God has given you victory over many things over the past year.” — Steven M. Hitchcock
74. “A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it. Let’s welcome the 365 days it brings. Let’s live well with love in our hearts towards God and all people. Let’s walk through its corridors with praise songs on our lips.” ― Anusha Atukorala
75. “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
76. “In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.” — Beyoncé
77. “Resolve to make each day the beginning of a new year, a new morning, a new adventure. Enjoy the blessings of a new year, in Christ, one day at a time!” — Debbie Carroccio
78. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
79. “Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
80. “Year-End Note to Self: It’s not too late. You are not behind. You are where you need to be.” — Marc and Angel Chernoff
We hope you’ve found a few Happy New Year quotes that have inspired you to say, “Bring on 2025!”
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You’ve got this! We hope you have a healthy and safe new year!
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