New Year Friendship Quotes:

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

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

- Aleister Crowley

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

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

- T. S. Eliot

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

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: New Year, Years, Drawing, January 1, January 1st

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

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

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

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

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

- Walter Scott

topic: New Year, Cheer, Holiday, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

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.

- Goran Persson

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Time, Another Year, Inspirational 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

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Indian Happy New Year, Joy And Sadness

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

- Charles Kettering

topic: New Year, Reality, Ideas, Inspirational New Year, Happy New Year

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

- James Agate

source: James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

topic: New Year, Years, Doe, Spiritual New Year, Happy New Year

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

- Thomas Mann

source: 'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

topic: Wisdom, New Year, Time, Happy New Year, New Year Friendship

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

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

topic: Life, New Year, Mother, Inspirational Future, Inspirational New Beginning

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

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

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

- Steven Spielberg

source: "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happy, Indian Happy New Year, My Wish

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

- Martin Luther

topic: New Year, Angel, Son, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

- Joey Lauren Adams

topic: New Year, Holiday, Blessing, Indian Happy New Year, Last Year

I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

- Robert Clark

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

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

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

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

- Jay Leno

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

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

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: New Year, Moving, Inspiration, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Year

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

- Hartley Coleridge

source: Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54

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

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

- Mark Twain

topic: New Year, Holiday, Dozen, New Year Friendship, New Years Eve

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

- Jay Leno

topic: Funny, New Year, Mean, New Years Resolution, Funny New Years

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: New Year, Years, Rooms, January 1, January 1st

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

- Jean Paul

topic: Inspirational, Life, New Year, Old Year, Happy New Year Wishes