New Year's Eve Quotes:

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

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

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

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

- Michael Josephson

topic: New Year, Opportunity, Years, Inspirational New Year, New Opportunity

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

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

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

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.

- Zach Galifianakis

topic: Girl, New Year, Years, Funny New Years, Funny New Years Eve

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Happy, New Year, Rings, January 1st, Spiritual New Year

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

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

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

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- Oprah Winfrey

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

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Motivational, Faith, Future, Stop Complaining, Live Futures

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

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

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

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

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

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

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

- George William Curtis

topic: New Year, Determination, Years, Christian New Year, New Years Resolution

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

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

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

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

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

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

- John Selden

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

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 proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

- Neil Gaiman

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

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