When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, we all know that there’s a whole year ahead of us. So what are your resolutions? Will you make changes? Try to improve? Or maybe just take it easy?
It’s important to make your resolution goals specific so that you can achieve them. If you don’t set a goal, it’s hard to know whether you’ve succeeded or failed.
New Year Inspirational Quotes
Here are some new year inspirational quotes to help you get started:
1. “New Year’s resolutions are a crutch for people who don’t know how to deal with life’s problems.” -David Letterman
2. “The year begins with a fresh page, unblemished by the shadows of the past.” -George Bernard Shaw
3. “The first thing that we must do in the New Year is to learn to die gracefully.” -Buddha
4. “If you want to be happy for a long time, take care of your health.” -Albert Schweitzer
5. “Never think about making resolutions; just do them.” -Abraham Lincoln
6. “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
7. “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.” -ZigZiglar
8. “A wise man once told me, ‘Life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.’ He was probably thinking of the next time he would wipe his ass.” -Randy Newman
9. “The first step in the solution of any problem is to recognize that there is a problem.” -Albert Einstein
10. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
11. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
12. “The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Soren Kierkegaard
13. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” -Steve Jobs
14. “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Wesley
15. “The most important decision you’ll ever make is whether or not to accept yourself.” -Michael Jordan
16. “New Year’s resolutions are the lowest form of human ambition.” -Robert Collier
17. “New Year’s resolutions are the lowest form of human ambition.” -Robert Collier
18. “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi
19. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans for the future.” -Author Unknown
20. “Never worry about things beyond your control. If you can’t do something, don’t worry about it; if you can, then do it.” -Dale Carnegie
21. “Don’t let a little thing like facts get in the way of a good story.” -Mark Twain
22. “The first person to congratulate you when you make a resolution is the person you are trying to help most.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “There are no shortcuts through life. No matter how much people wish there were, there are no shortcuts. Every step you take must be worth taking.” -George S. Patton
24. “We must accept the past for what it was, and not try to change it. We must accept the present for what it is and not try to change it. This is the way to have real freedom and peace. We must be willing to let go of the future, so we can live in the now and enjoy the sweetness of the moment.” -Marianne Williamson
25. “Most new year’s resolutions are made within days of New Year’s Day. That’s like saying, ‘I’ll start running tomorrow.’ No, you won’t. Not if you really want to lose weight or get fit. You have to make a decision, and then you have to keep that decision all year long. Resolutions are like that. They are something you say you’re going to do…but then…you don’t actually do.” -Eldridge J. Kaye Jr.
26. “Don’t wait for a crisis to act. That’s when people show up on your doorstep with no invitation.” -Michael Gerber
27. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” -Denis Waitley
28. “Most of the important things in life are not complicated. They’re simple. But we complicate simple things beyond belief.” -Dennis Spake
29. “The first person to congratulate you when you make a resolution is the person you are trying to help most.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “Happiness is a choice, not a condition.” -Author Unknown
31. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” -Anonymous
32. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” -Anonymous
33. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” -Anonymous
34. “It is not what we do for others that makes us great. It is what we do for ourselves.” -Anonymous
35. “Success is waking up in the morning, whoever you are, however old or young, and bounding out of bed because there’s something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you’re good at — something that’s bigger than you are, and you can’t hardly wait to get at it again today.” -Tommy Lasorda
36. “Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.” -Kurt Vonnegut
37. “We cannot control the waves, but we can learn to surf them.” -Mitch Albom
38. “There’s no better time to plant a tree than when you are planting it in someone else’s mind.” -Robert Collier
39. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” -Anonymous
40. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans for the future.” -Irish Proverb
41. “Opportunity doesn’t knock. It presents itself.” -Sir Gary of Halbert
42. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” -Anonymous
43. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again from scratch.” -Sam Levens
44. “No matter what happens, somebody will be there to cheer you on.” -Dennis Waitley
45. “A new day always begins as a fresh page in a new book.” -Author Unknown
46. “A new year begins with a clean slate. It is a time for new beginnings, new thoughts, and new resolutions.” -Anonymous
47. “It takes less time to build a habit than to break one.” -Anonymous
48. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” -Unknown
49. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
50. “We must have faith in our principles; we must have the courage of our convictions; we must have the courage to make an effort and then the will to persevere. That is the secret of success.” -William Jennings Bryan
51. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” -Dalai Lama
52. “The only person you can truly help is yourself.” -Unknown
53. “A new year is a fresh start. A new beginning. It’s a chance to do things differently, change old ways, and be different. It’s a time for new beginnings.” -W. Clement Stone
54. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain
55. “If you don’t design your life, someone else will do it for you, and that is the last thing you want.” -Jim Rohn
56. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
57. “Don’t get so caught up in the details of life that you fail to notice the big picture.” -Anonymous
58. “New Year, new you!” -Anonymous
59. “Never give up, no matter what happens. You keep going, you keep fighting, you keep moving forward.” -Unknown
60. “No matter what others may say or think, we all have the power within us to make our lives wonderful.” -J.K. Rowling