Can I Interest You In 75 Clever New Year's Captions and Quotes?

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75 New Year's Quotes to Start 2023 Off RightUnsplash/John Francis

When it comes to annual holidays, there's so much to love about New Years Eve. Celebratory glitter? Great! Strong champagne cocktails? Ever better. The sky-high possibility of midnight makeout sesh? Sign us up! The past year has been, ahem, quite a journey, to say the absolute least. All that stress is so last year though, because it's officially time to take on 2023. Yes, even though it looks/sounds like a year they'd use to reference ~the future~ in a sci-fi movie, a new year will soon be upon us.

IDC if you're snapping 'fit pics or cheeky boomerangs clinking glasses, memories must be made and proper attention should be given to crafting the perfect Instagram caption. While I'm no expert on the universe and how it works, I feel like your New Year's Eve caption is basically the public manifestation of the year that's to come. No pressure or anything, but it's gotta be good.

So, as 2022 finally comes to a close, here are a bunch of new year captions to inspire you to get that promotion, get rid of those toxic people in your life, actually hang up your clothes that have been piling up on The Chair in your room. Basically, all things that can help you kick off 2023 on a high note. Allow these NYE captions to inspire and ignite the better version of you that exists within.


If you've got major goals to reach in 2023

  1. Cheers to all the bags I’m chasing this year.

  2. Harnessing Hannah Montana’s "Who Said" attitude in 2023.

  3. "Goals transform a random walk into a chase." — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  4. "Being happy is the goal... but greatness is my mission." — Childish Gambino

  5. New year, new dreams.

  6. "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." – Jim Rohn

  7. "For y'all, the sky is the limit. For us, the sky is just what we stand on." — DJ Drama

  8. "I’m not gonna stop, I’m gonna work harder." — Destiny’s Child

  9. Dreams are being chased all 2023.

  10. "I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me." — Jay-Z

  11. Raising this glass to the sky, 'cause that's the limit next year.

  12. Got the 2023 game plan locked and loaded, wbu?

If you're trying to be all cute...

  1. Cheers to the people who love us, the losers who lost us, and the lucky ones who still get to meet us.

  2. New year, same me.

  3. Less bitter, more glitter.

  4. I would quit drinking champagne for my New Year’s resolution, but nobody likes a quitter.

  5. Still looking for my Troy Bolton.

  6. "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

  7. "I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now." — Edna (from The Incredibles)

  8. I can’t believe it's been a whole year since I didn’t become a better person.

  9. I'm still the same person I was last year—now I'm just hungover.

  10. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

  11. My New Year's resolution is to remember to write 2023 instead of 2o22.

  12. Ready for that new new!

  13. You know me, just feeling 2023.

  14. Best believed I'm still bejeweled, this year and next.

  15. All that glitters isn't gold, but I am.

If you want to #Inspire...

  1. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." — Winston Churchill

  2. 12 new chapters, 365 new chances.

  3. "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." — Oprah Winfrey

  4. Out with the old, in with the new.

  5. This is your year to sparkle.

  6. What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

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

  8. "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." — Brad Paisley

  9. "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

  10. "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

  11. "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." — H. Jackson Browne

  12. "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

  13. "A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back, you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future." — Jodi Picoult

  14. There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C.S. Lewis

  15. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” — Eric Butterworth

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

  17. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” — Ernest Hemingway

If you're musically inclined...


  1. "I want your midnights, but I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day." —Taylor Swift

  2. "Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten." —Natasha Bedingfield

  3. "A little party never killed nobody." —Fergie

  4. "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life, for me, and I'm feeling good." —Nina Simone

  5. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." —Seneca

  6. "It's the final countdown." —Europe

  7. "Woke up feelin’ like I just might run for president." —Lizzo

  8. "Thank u, next." —Ariana Grande

  9. "Yeah, I believe in the end love wins." —Carrie Underwood

  10. "It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age." —Taylor Swift

  11. "The best is yet to come." — Frank Sinatra

  12. "All kinds of magic all around us; it's hard to believe." — Kacey Musgraves

  13. "If you don't care about me, I'll just dance for myself." — Carly Rae Jepsen

  14. "Try and fill us with your hate and we will shine a light." — Florence + The Machine

  15. "What a time to be alive." —Troye Sivan

  16. "Raise your glass and we'll have a cheer, My dear acquaintance, a happy new year, happy new year." —Regina Spektor

  17. "You heard that? That's the sound of the price going up." — Jay Z

  18. "I'm lookin' for a new foundation...And I'm on that new vibration" — Beyoncé

  19. "Time curious time, cutting me open and healing me fine" — Taylor Swift

  20. "And I'll drink to that" — Rihanna

If you're looking to manifest some good shit...

  1. "Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it." — Maya Angelou

  2. "You manifest what you believe, not what you want." — Sonia Ricotti

  3. "See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it." — Rhonda Byrne

  4. "Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny." — David McKay

  5. "Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so." — William Shakespeare

  6. "Action that is inspired from aligned thoughts is joyful action." — Abraham Hicks

  7. "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  8. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." —Henry David Thoreau

  9. "To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe." — Anatole France

  10. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

  11. “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.” – William Jennings Bryan

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