New Years Toast Quotes:

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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

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

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

- Drake

source: "Shot for Me". Song by Drake, 2011.

topic: Friendship, Family, Angel, Irish Proverbs, New Years Toast

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

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Success, Mean, Good Success, Succes, Personal Success

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!

- Brian O'Rourke

topic: Food, Fall, Drinking, Irish Beer, Irish Drinking

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

- P.B. Kerr

topic: Past, May, Your Past, Irish Beer, Irish Drinking

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Drinking, Beer, Men, Alcoholism, Irish Beer

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

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

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

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: New Year, Happy New Year, Years, Drinking Toast, Funny New Years Eve

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

- Charles Lamb

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

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

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

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

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

- William Feather

topic: Deeds, Resolve, Good Success, Personal Success, Formula For Success

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

- Addison Mizner

source: "The Complete Cynic".

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Friendship, Thank You God, Relatives And Friends

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