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With the days counting down to the New Year, we’re all ready and excited for the amazing things in store for us in 2018.
Oh, all the adventures we’ll take and the new memories that we’ll make.
Whether you’re into making New Year’s Resolutions or not, I know you have expectations for 2018. It’s impossible not to! Even the most cynical among us silently wish the New Year will be an improvement on the last.
Will 2018 be the year you’ll finally quit your job, the year you’ll fall in love or perhaps finally start eating healthier?
Whatever your hopes for yourself a fantastic place to start your New Year is with a dose of Inspirational New Year’s Resolution Quotes and Sayings.
Each of these famous New Year’s Quotes will inspire you to get excited and motivated to make 2018 your year. They encourage you to look forward, let go of the past and put your best foot, heart, and soul forward into the new year.
Motivational Quotes for Your New Year
The New Year is a new adventure, a new chapter in your life. 365 days of new possibilities and opportunities just waiting for you. This collection of new year quotes and sayings inspire you to see the new year as a fresh start and new chapter in your life, just waiting for you to fill it with new experiences.
1. “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” ― Brad Paisley
2. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ― Edith Lovejoy Pierce
3. “There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.” ― Jason Soroski
4. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” – Charles Kettering
5. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
Hope-filled Inspirational New Year Quotes
Each New Year brings new hope! Let go of the disappointments of what didn’t happen, leave your regrets in last year, and step forward emotionally with a spirit of hope and thankfulness. This collection of inspirational New Year quotes and sayings presents the new year as your opportunity to hope again.
6. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ― Alfred Tennyson
7. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.
8. “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, American Theatre Critic
9. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
10. “We can find a new hope every new day and every New Year.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
11. “Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
12. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “We spend January 1 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
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Inspiring New You, New Year Quotes and Sayings
The New Year is a time to renew yourself! It’s time to reset your mind and your thoughts go forward with a new way of thinking. It’s not about pretending everything is okay, but it’s about putting aside your harmful and hurtful tendencies like negative self-talk, gossiping and hated. This collection of inspirational New Year Quotes and Sayings reveal that the purpose of the new year is be renew your thoughts, behaviour and language.
14. “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
15. “Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year; only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
16. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot
17. “What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
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18. “The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” — G.K. Chesterton, English Writer
19. “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 woman made New Year resolutions, she would make no resolutions. Unless a woman starts afresh about things, she will certainly do nothing effective.” ― G.K. Chesterton*
Ideas for Your New Years Resolution Quotes
Need a New Years Resolution idea? Or maybe not convinced New Year’s Resolutions are even your thing. Here’s an idea – keep it simple this year, focus on loving yourself and others more, to get to know yourself better and to complain less. This selection of New Year Motivational Quotes is all about the resolutions you should be making this year. Choose to love, choose to complain less, choose to make daily resolutions.
20. “Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” ― Kelly Martin
21. “And I went into the New Year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.” – Dominic Riccitello
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22. “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
23. “If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” ― Cyril Cusack
24. “From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.” — Leonard Bernstein
25. “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things.” — John Burroughs
26. “What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern McLellan
27. “I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” — Henry Moore
Take Action with New Year Motivational Quotes
Want to make changes in your life in the new year? Then don’t just make resolutions, set goals and take action. The following Motivational New Year Quotes and Saying implore you to seek out new opportunities, to set goals, to take action and most importantly stick with your resolution. Don’t just set it and forget it, do what you must to make it happen.
28. “Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year… 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
29. “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” – Cavett Robert.
30. “Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” – Alex Morritt
31. “Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. ” – Michael Josephson
32. “Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.” – Francis Quarles
33. “For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Stick to it or Break it New Years Resolution Quotes
The New Year is a time to make mistakes and getting it right. Sometimes in order to figure something out, you need to make mistakes and fail along the way. These famous new year resolution quotes and sayings encourage you to mess up and get it right! Be brave, either way, you’re learning and gaining wisdom. Isn’t that what matters in the end.
34. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes… Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” ― Neil Gaiman
35. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” — Benjamin Franklin
36. “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!” ― Aleister Crowley
37. “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” — F.M. Knowles
38. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” — Joey Adams, American Comedian
39. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”― Oprah Winfrey
40. “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
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Loved reading through these – gives me an enormous motivational boost! Thank you for sharing these quotes <3
Yay for being motivated! 🙌🏽
Happy New Year!
They are all great quotes! I love the C.S. Lewis one 🙂
Hey Cristina,
Aren’t they! I love anything C.S. Lewis too!
My favorite quote is by C.S. Lewis… it’s a way to grow and learn from our mistakes, so move on and always live life to the fullest ♡
Hey Hafsah,
Me too! I think that’s my favorite New Year’s Resolution quote and saying too!
You are so right there is nothing magical about turning that calendar page, it’s just the fresh start that we all need so much! Set goals and taking actions is so much better than setting resolutions!
Hey Chelf,
Exactly! And the GREATEST part about it is that any day we can decide to start again. And even more importantly, to take action as you say.
I have written several of these down to bring into the new year with me!
That’s awesome, Alexandra! These inspirational New Year’s Resolution quotes are perfect for our journals and planners.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Your success and happiness lies in you. Thanks for some quotes for New Years.
Hey Tony,
That’s a truly inspirational New Year’s quote! It certainly is a “going” on and we do take the best and all the lessons we’ve learned with us.
Happy New Year!
I just love motivational quotes they definitely put you in a great mood and I think they are definitely a great way to start of 2018. I have started setting my goals and actions for 2018 and I am already looking forward to it. You are right it is like starting a fresh book.
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Hey Mel,
I so agree, motivational quotes are a great way to start the new year.
Best of luck in 2018 with all your goals and actions!
I love quotes that make me think, laugh and push forward. Thanks for these. I definitely need to get started on my New Year thoughts. I can’t believe it’s almost here!
Hey Tiffany,
That’s great, love that you’re enjoying these inspirational new year’s quotes.
It sure is. Happy New Year!
Thats aN inspiring reading for the new year indeed.Loved reading the quotes
Glad you enjoyed it, Amrita! Happy New Year!
Thank you so much for sharing this inspirational quote. Can’t wait for 2018. Looking forward to the coming year. A lot may happen but every year is definitely full of blessings and learning. Awesome post!
You’re so welcome, Krystal!
Me neither, I’m so ready for it and all that it has in store.