Your 2024 Will Have a Fantastic Start If You Read These Inspiring New Year's Quotes
Oh, how time flies! It's crazy to think that we're already welcoming the start of 2024. Weren't we just celebrating New Year's and ringing in 2023 just a couple of weeks ago?! Though, looking back at everything that happened this year makes it easier to believe that a whopping 365 days has already almost passed. For the Drummond family, it all started when Todd left for college. Then, we got a new cookbook, Dinner's Ready, from Ree. Oh, and Alex and Mauricio ran their first half-marathon to close out the year! Whether or not your year was this eventful, we're sure that all of you would appreciate this list of New Year's quotes to help ring in 2024.
This list can also double as excellent New Year's Instagram captions, New Year's wishes, and New Year's toasts. Before you head to that New Year's party or New Year's dinner with all of your loved ones, why not sit down and read these quotes about life, love, and starting over. You'll be amazed at the power these simple quotes can hold. For example, these wise words from Nido Qubein could be just the encouragement you need to make a fresh start in your work or personal life: “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” Similarly, this quote from Michael Altshuler will remind you that you're in charge of your own destiny: “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” Browse this collection to find a New Year quote that speaks to you!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!”
Peggy Toney Horton
“Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings.”
Auliq Ice
“New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.”
Emilie Coue
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
Carl Bard
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
Joseph Campbell
“The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
Charles Lamb
“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”
Mehmet Murat ildan
“The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off!”
Vern McLellan
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”
Joanne Raptis
“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.”
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Albert Einstein
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Taylor Swift
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
C.S. Lewis
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
Nick Frederickson
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.”
Alex Morritt
“Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.”
Hillary DePiano
“We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.”
Kelly Martin
“Remove 'shoulds' from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.”
Gandhi
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Arthur Rubenstein
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
Eckhart Tolle
“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.”
Nike Campbell-Fatoki
“We are the authors of our destinies.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings.”
Michael Josephson
“Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.”
Anusha Atukorala
“A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.”
Taylor Duvall
“This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.”
Oscar Wilde
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
John R. Dallas Jr.
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“We joyfully pray with grateful hearts to welcome blessings in New Year.”
Melody Beattie
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”
Terri Guillemets
“This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
Tony Robbins
“New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.”
Alex Morritt
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.”
Bamigboye Olurotimi
“In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude, and be passionate with your dreams.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
Unknown
“Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret, or fear.”
Hal Borland
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
T.S. Eliot
“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.”
Paulo Coehlo
“If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
Munia Khan
“New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.”
Michael Altshuler
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
Tom Peters
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
Nido Qubein
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.”
Benjamin Franklin
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.”
Winston Churchill
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Avina Celeste
“Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.”
Charles Kettering
“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.”
Martin Luther King
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Neil Gaiman
“Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
Seneca
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
Meister Eckhart
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
William Shakespeare
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
Robin Sharma
"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life."
Benjamin Franklin
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
J.P. Morgan
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are."
Germany Kent
"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…"
William E. Vaughan
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
Catherine Pulsifer
"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."
Hillary DePiano
"You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind."
Kristin Kreuk
"Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both."
William E. Vaughan
"Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."
Gandhi
"The future depends on what you do today."
Edna, 'The Incredibles'
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."
Kierkegaard
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
Kate Spade
"She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes."
Nicholas Sparks
"Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a second chance... It's called tomorrow."
Buddha
"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Maya Angelou
"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
Mother Teresa
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
Tia Mowry
"Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder."
David Bowie
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
T.S. Eliot
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
George Eliot
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
Joan Rivers
"Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn't get better. You get better."
Criss Jami
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
C.S. Lewis
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Benjamin Franklin
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better man.”
Abraham Lincoln
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Frank Sinatra
"The best is yet to come."
Oprah Winfrey
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
Thomas Jefferson
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Brad Paisley
"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”
Josiyah Martin
"The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all."
Beyoncé
"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."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
Susan Sontag
"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage."
Dr. Seuss
"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."
Steven Spielberg
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”
Socrates
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Nina Simone
"It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life, for me. And I'm feeling good."
Steve Harvey
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.”
Plato
"The beginning is the most important park of the work."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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.”
Bill Vaughan
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”
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