As the new year dawns, we've got a lot on our minds. From wiping our slates clean to intentions big and small, there's something exciting about the next 365 days and everything they may bring.
While we can't control everything, effort and believing in the magic of what a new year may bring can go a long way. So if you're looking for some inspiration to help make your dreams come true in 2023, we've got you covered with these 61 new year quotes.
61 New Year Quotes
Short new year quotes
1. "Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings." —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
2. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” —Albert Einstein
3. "You raze the old to raise the new" —Justina Chen
4. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
5. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
6. “When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” ―Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
7. This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift
8. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
9. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie
10. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –Plato
11. “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” —Karen Kaiser Clark
12. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
13. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
14. We are the authors of our destinies.” ―Nike Campbell-Fatoki
15. "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." —Arthur Rubenstein
16. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler
17. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis
18. "Be the girl who decided to go for it.” —Unknown
19. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.” —Eckhart Tolle
20. "You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.” ―Hillary DePiano
21. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." —Winston Churchill
22. "Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams." — Avina Celeste
23. "You are never too old to reinvent yourself." —Steve Harvey
24. "Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage." —Susan Sontag
25. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
27. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent
28. "This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next." —Terri Guillemets
29. "No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again." —Buddha
30. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” —Seneca
Inspirational new year quotes
31. "In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate with your dreams." —Bamigboye Olurotimi
32. "A worthy New Year's resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose." —Robert Brault
33. “Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly." —Unknown
34. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” —John R. Dallas Jr.
35. "What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.” —Anne Frank
36. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” —Mandy Hale
37. "New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live." —Anthony Robbins
38. “Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.” —Melody Beattie
39. "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
40. “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
41. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan
42. "I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring." — David Bowie
43. "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
44. “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
45. “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
46. “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." —Maya Angelou
47. “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
48. "Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein
49. “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”—Steven Spielberg
50. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk
51. "I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written." —Juansen Dizon
Funny new year quotes
58. "You know how I always dread the whole year? Well this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time." —Charlie Brown
59. "He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool." —F.M. Knowles
60. “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
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