New Year Life Quotes:

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

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings, Indian Happy New Year, Another Year

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

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

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

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

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving On, Time To Move On, Cycle Of Life

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

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

source: Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

topic: New Year, Night, Men, Indian Happy New Year, Spiritual 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

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

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

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Happy, New Year, Rings, 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

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

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

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

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

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Powerful, Play, Goal, Life Direction, New Year Life

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

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