New Year's Quotes

"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Old year, you must not die; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"

Ogden Nash

"Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since."

Dave Beard

"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions."

Mark Twain

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."

Anaïs Nin

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder

"The beginning is always today."

Mary Wollstonecraft

"We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them."

Hillary DePiano

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

Henry Van Dyke

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."

Peter Marshall

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world."

Pliny the Elder

"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

William James

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

William Penn

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now."

Paulo Coelho

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

Paulo Coelho

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

Karen Lamb

"Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind."

Christian D. Larson

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

Nido Qubein

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Edmund Hillary

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

Steve Jobs