New Year's Resolutions Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

- Leonard Bernstein

topic: New Year, Years, Return, Stop Complaining, Happy 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

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

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

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

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

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

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

- W. H. Auden

topic: New Year, Years, People, Brothels, New Years Resolution

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

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

- Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, American author, political activist, and lecturer “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: New Year, Lying, Years, Another Year, New Years Resolution

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

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

- Tom Peters

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Gratitude, Celebrate Life, Appreciate What You Have

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

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

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

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

- Akhenaton

topic: Wise, New Year, Art, Happy New Year Eve, New Year's Resolutions

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

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

topic: New Year, Years, Long, Funny Happy New Year, Funny New Years Eve