New Year's Quotes

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."

James Agate

"We spend January 1st 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

"Another fresh new year is here... Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give!"

William Arthur Ward

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

Karen Kaiser Clark

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all."

Emily Dickinson

"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."

George William Curtis

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

Joey Adams

"Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility."

Eric Zorn

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

Alan Watts

"There is nothing permanent except change."

Heraclitus

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."

Faith Baldwin

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it."

Richard Whately

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

Mother Teresa

"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached."

"No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left."

Charles Lamb

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

Seneca

"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

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness."

Neil Gaiman

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?"

Robert Burns

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."