Happy New Year Inspirational Quotes:

A good beginning makes a good end.

- Louis L'Amour

topic: New Beginnings, Beginnings And Ends, Happy New Year Inspirational, Starting A New Beginning

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

- Greg Reid

topic: Dream, Broken, Goal, Happy New Year Inspirational

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving Forward

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Graduation, Kids Inspirational

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. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

- Neil Gaiman

source: "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

topic: New Year, Mistake, Years, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Trying Something New

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

- Brad Paisley

source: Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

topic: New Year, Book, Writing, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Happier Life, Just Want To Be Happy

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

- Melody Beattie

topic: New Year, Book, Writing, Inspirational New Year, Happy New Year

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

- Edgar Guest

topic: New Year, Eye, Years, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

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

topic: New Year, Years, Friendly, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

You raze the old to raise the new.

- Justina Chen

topic: New Beginnings, Raises, North Of Beautiful, Starting A New Beginning, Happy New Year Inspirational

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: New Year, Men, Resolution, Spiritual New Year, Inspirational New Year

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Time, Future, Heart, Indian Happy New Year, Past Future

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

- John Burroughs

topic: Inspirational, Funny, New Year, Spiritual New Year, Christian New Year

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Inspirational, Karma, Dream, Days Of The Year, Happy New Year Eve

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

- Charles Lamb

topic: New Year, Holiday, Years, Solemn, New Years Resolution

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Years, January 1st, Spiritual New Year

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.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Funny, New Year, Indian Happy New Year, Spiritual New Year

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Happiness, New Year, Past, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Beginning

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

- Simon Newcomb

source: Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

topic: Memorial Day, Adversity, Zest, Happy New Year Eve, Happy New Year Wishes

Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Life, New Year, Indian Happy New Year, January 1st

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Book, Kissing, Thinking, Happy New Year Inspirational

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

- Neil Gaiman

source: "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

topic: New Year, Art, Mistake, Learning From Our Mistakes, Inspirational New Year

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

- Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

topic: New Year, Holiday, Old Year, Spiritual New Year, Christian New Year

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

- Dave Beard

topic: New Year, Years, Resolution, Days Of The Year, New Years Resolution

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

- Steve Wozniak

source: Saturday keynote speech, The Fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference, July 10, 2004.

topic: Work, Smart, Doors, Smart People, Happy New Year Inspirational

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

- Melody Beattie

topic: New Year, Live Life, Years, Inspirational New Year, Blank Pages

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

- Tucker Carlson

topic: Motivational, New Year, Years, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

- Brooks Atkinson

topic: New Year, Memories, Holiday, Spiritual New Year, Inspirational New Year

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

topic: New Year, Holiday, Today, Happy New Year, Happy New Year Eve

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

- Eric Zorn

topic: New Year, Honesty, Humility, Spiritual New Year, Funny Happy New Year

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

- Aberjhani

source: Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.54, Lulu.com

topic: New Year, Bridges, Wings, Happy New Year Inspirational, New Year Motivational

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

- Vera Nazarian

topic: New Year, Air, Ice, Winter Days, Beginnings And Endings

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Mistake, Years, Forever, Inspirational New Year, My Wish For You

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Writing, Years, Next Year, Happy New Year Inspirational

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

topic: Ambition, New Beginnings, Eye, Inspirational New Year, New Start

In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Happy, New Year, Past, Happy New Year Inspirational, New Year Fresh Start

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

- Andre Gide

topic: New Year, Years, Old Habits, Spiritual New Year, Inspirational New Year

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

- Kate Spade

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Art, Art Music, Happy New Year Inspirational

Let each new year find you a better person.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Indian Happy New Year, Spiritual New Year, Inspirational New Year, Year One, Happy New Year

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

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Dream, Years, Magic, Happy New Year Inspirational

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Kings, Forward In Life, Just Keep Moving

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

- Phil McGraw

topic: New Year, Years, Happy New Year Greetings, Happy New Year Wishes, Happy New Year Inspirational

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

- Henry Moore

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Educational, Days Of The Year, Happy New Year

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: New Year, Drinking, Beer, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Liquor Funny

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

- Jonathan Edwards

topic: Happy, God, New Year, Jesus Inspirational, Inspirational New Year

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Top Management, Marketing And Sales

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

- Hal Borland

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Indian Happy New Year, Happy New Year

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: New Year, Nature, New Beginnings, Inspirational New Beginning, Inspirational New Year