After the challenges of 2020, we need an extra push to step into 2021. We are all looking for a little inspiration for the year ahead. These New Year quotes from celebrities, authors, beloved fictional characters, and other notables might have the power to give us that extra push we need in 2021. Read, share, and absorb them as one of your New Year’s Eve traditions and you will have a bright outlook for the new year.
These quotes are funny and motivating but will get you thinking about what you want out of the coming year. Share them with your family and friends, post them as a caption or just read and enjoy. These quotes are about making the most of a new year and all the new years to come with or without New Year’s resolutions. Have a look at these inspirational New Year quotes, pick your favorite, and start the year with a fresh attitude.
51 Best Inspirational and Unique New Year Quotes for A Fresh Start
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”
-Brad Paisley
In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.”
-Beyonce
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
“To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.”
– Ben Jonson
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘It will be happier.’”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“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
“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
“You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Hey friend, don’t you dare forget, as you’re creating a new you, that there’s a whole lot about the old you that is worth keeping.”
– Toni Sorenson
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
– Maya Angelou
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”
– James Agate
“People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a New Year’s resolution to a lifestyle.”
– John Cena
“I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”
– Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.”
– Joey Adams
“New Year’s Day: 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
“My New Year’s resolution list usually starts with the desire to lose between 10 and 3,000 pounds.”
– Nia Vardalos
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
– Oscar Wilde
“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.”
– Zayn Malik
“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
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
-Jonathan Huie
“The best is yet to come.”
-Frank Sinatra
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.”
-Steve Harvey
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-George Eliot
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
-Karen Kaiser Clark
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction”
-Germany Kent
“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.”
-Mike Dooley
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make new year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!”
-D.S. Mixell
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
-E.E. Cummings
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”
-Josiyah Martin
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
-Carl Bard
“This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.”
-Taylor Duvall
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”
-J.P. Morgan
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
-Socrates
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.”
-Nido Qubein
“New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.”
-Auliq Ice
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”
-Criss Jami
“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
-Helen Keller
“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.”
-Charles Kettering
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.”
-Alex Morritt
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year.”
-John R. Dallas Jr.
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”
-Melody Beattie
“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes next year and forever.”
-Neil Gaiman
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”
-Vern McLellan
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.”
-Hal Borland
“You will never win if you never begin.”
-Helen Rowland
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.”
-Nick Frederickson
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.”
-Sarah ban Breathnach
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.”
-Anne Frank
“Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
-Dan Millman
