40 Inspirational New Year Quotes to Start Your Year Off Right

There's no better time to start fresh than on January 1!

The start of a new year is the most exciting and hopeful time of the year. It's a time for reflecting on things you're thankful for and the things you want to change in the future. Want to pick up a new language? Try some rock climbing? Join the new yoga studio down the street? There's no better time to do those things than the beginning of the year! To get you even more excited about the possibilities 2020 will bring, we've rounded up some of the most inspirational New Year quotes. Here are the best New Year quotes you need to start your year off right.

  1. "Each year's regret are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year."  — John R. Dallas Jr.
  2. "New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours." — Alex Morritt
  3. "New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way." — Auliq Ice
  4. "The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written." — Melody Beattie
  5. "For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice." — T.S. Eliot
  6. "Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing." — Sarah Ban Breathnach
  7. "Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." — Helen Keller
  8. "Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas." — Charles Kettering
  9. "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." — Brad Paisley
  10. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
  11. "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." — Oprah Winfrey
  12. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  13. "And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been." — Rainer Maria Rilke
  14. "Celebrate what you want to see more of." — Tom Peters
  15. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
  16. "New Year's Day is every man's birthday." — Charles Lamb
  17. "Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  18. "Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever." — Neil Gaiman
  19. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." — Seneca
  20. "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." — Thomas Jefferson
  1. "You will never win if you never begin." — Helen Rowland
  2. "I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings." — Nick Frederickson
  3. "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better man." — Benjamin Franklin
  4. "What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet." — Anne Frank
  5. "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." — William E. Vaughn
  6. "Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." — Dan Millman
  8. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams." — Henry David Thoreau
  9. "Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over." — Guy Finlay
  10. "Every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all of our lives." — Steven Speilberg
  11. "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." — Neale Donald Walsch
  12. "You gotta find your best self and when you do, you gotta hold on to it for dear life." — Cheryl Strayed
  13. "And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings." — Meister Eckhart
  14. "If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." — Paulo Coelho
  15. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller
  16. "As this New Year approaches find inspiration around you, and motivation within you, to be all that you can be." — Kate Summers
  17. "Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present." — Hillary DePiano
  18. "Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind." — Joel Osteen
  19. "Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day." — Michael Josephson
  20. "We all need a fresh start every year. It's important that we go into the New Year with an open mind and a new way of thinking." — Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

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