New Year Quotations

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

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
~Author Unknown

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
~Author Unknown

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey

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, 1850

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.
~G.K. Chesterton

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

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

~Joey Adams

“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 quotes (Poet b.1904)

“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 quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936) “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 meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!

I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!”

-William Arthur Ward

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

For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

-T.S. Eliot

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

-John Greenleaf Whittier

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

-Henry Ward Beecher