New Year's Quotes

"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."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"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

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."

Oprah Winfrey

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one."

Brad Paisley

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"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

"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

"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, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes."

G. K. Chesterton

"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

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."

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."

Bill Vaughan

"What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year."

Vern McLellan

"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written."

Melody Beattie

"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

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things."

John Burroughs

"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty."

John Selden

"New Year's Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted."

Thomas Mann

"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."

Walter Scott

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Thomas Jefferson

"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."

Matthew Arnold

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page."

Henry Ward Beecher