Every year breeds a fresh start. Even if you didn’t check off all of your goals or haven’t quite crafted the life you envisioned, you still have time. Yet, if you need a bit of inspiration to help you shake the dust off and begin anew, we compiled a list of empowering New Year’s quotes & sayings to propel you forward.
80 New Year’s Quotes & Sayings
New Year’s Quotes & Sayings for Resilience & Growth
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. -Rumi
Without change, there would be no butterflies. -Maya Angelou
To soar toward what’s possible, you must leave behind what’s comfortable. -Cicely Tyson
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
Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy. -Sarah Ban Breathnach.
Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral. Pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change. -Shonda Rhimes
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise so I am changing myself. -Rumi
Your time as a caterpillar has expired. Your wings are ready. -Unknown
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. -Socrates
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Martin Luther King
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. -Neil Gaiman
It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. -Jillian Michaels
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. -Oprah Winfrey
Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. -Michael Josephson
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. -John Burroughs
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein
My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. -Viola Davis
The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create. -Craig D. Lounsbrough
New Year’s Quotes & Sayings about New Beginnings
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. -Rainer Maria Rilke
Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams. -Avina Celeste
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -C.S. Lewis
A New Year is like a blank book. The pen is in your hands. It is your chance to write a beautiful story for yourself. -Kahlil Gibran
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. -Melody Beattie
Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending. -Carl Bard
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
So I close my eyes to old ends, and open my heart to new beginnings. -Unknown
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas. -Charles Kettering
Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations. -Catherine Pulsifer
A New Year is a fresh canvas. Paint your own masterpiece. -Unknown
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. -Buddha
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
A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments. -Lailah Gifty Akita
A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it. -Anusha Atukorala
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -Amy Sparling
Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next. -Mie Hansson
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
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” -Mother Teresa
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
All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight. -Shannon L. Alder
New Year’s Quotes & Sayings about Self-Love and Acceptance
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself. -Thich Nhat Hanh
You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck. -Rumi
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. -Maya Angelou
You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind. -Hillary DePiano
When the world tells you to shrink, expand. -Elaine Welteroth
Pay attention to your patterns. The ways you learned to survive may not be the ways you want to continue to live. Heal and shift. -Dr. Thema Bryant Davis
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
You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were. -Sidney Poitier
Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. -John Lewis
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. -Albert Einstein
It’s never too late. Never too late to start over. Never too late to be happy. -Jane Fonda
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -Hellen Keller
Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now. -Kelly Roberts
When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear. -Elaine Welteroth
I call something a miracle when an ordinary person achieves something extraordinary. We all have the potential to create miraculous changes. -Tina Turner
Don’t sell yourself short. You will meet people along the way who will be lining up to place limits on you. You don’t need to beat them to the punch. -Leslie Odom Jr
Never underestimate the power you have to take your life into a new direction. -Germany Kent
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. -Rumi
You are never too old to reinvent yourself. -Steve Harvey
I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided him to port. -Assata Shakur
If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito. -Dalai Lama
If I don’t poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell. -Shonda Rhimes
New Year’s Quotes & Sayings about Action and Persistence
A month from now…You can either have a month of progress. Or a month of excuses why you didn’t. -Unknown
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent Van Gogh
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. -Paulo Coelho
Life’s not about expecting, hoping, and wishing, it’s about doing, being, and becoming. -Mike Dooley
What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year. -Vern McLellan
No one ever told her how to get her heart to abandon a dream once the dreamer stops dreaming. -Kaia Alderson
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. -Nora Roberts
I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can’t do it at all. -Langston Hughes
Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. -Robin Sharma
Restart. Reset. Refocus. As many times as you need to. -Unknown
Only put off tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -Pablo Picasso
If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. -Banksy
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you’re willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by. -Barack Obama
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. -Unknown
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are. -J.P. Morgan
A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy. -Steve Maraboli
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -Albert Einstein
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet. -Anne Frank
There you have it! Your guide to New Year’s quotes & sayings that inspire you to live your life fearlessly and unapologetically. If you need more support, check out this list of powerful mental health quotes. May everything you want in this beautiful world come true next year and every year after.
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