Resolutions Quotes

"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

"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

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

Matthew Arnold

"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

"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

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

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."

Peter Marshall

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

Tony Robbins

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

Dave Beard

"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

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

Christian D. Larson