New Years Day Quotes:

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

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

- Mark Twain

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

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

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

- Michael Josephson

topic: New Year, Opportunity, Years, Days Of The Year, Happy New Year

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

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Indian Happy New Year, Daily Living

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

topic: New Year, Time, Years, Days Of The Year, Shortcomings

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

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

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: New Year, Fun, New Beginnings, Another Year, Spiritual New Year

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

- Charles Lamb

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

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

- Mark Twain

topic: New Year, Cutting, Wind, Days Of The Year, Funny New Years Eve

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

- Charles Lamb

topic: New Year, Firsts, Common, Christian New Year, Funny Happy New Year

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 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

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

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Motivational, Christmas, New Year, Spiritual New Year, Year One

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

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Dream, Reality, Tomorrow, Inspirational New Year, New Years Day

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Hungry For Knowledge

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Cute, Positive, Leadership, Life Philosophy, Inspirational Tattoo

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

- Helen Fielding

topic: New Year, Hangover, Thinking, Days Of The Year, Christian New Year

Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.

- Ben Affleck

topic: New Year, Gay, Ties, Days Of The Year, New Years Day

It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.

- Kate DeAraugo

topic: New Year, Years, Idols, Whirlwind, New Years Day