Quotes About New Year’s

Ushering in a new calendar

Happy New Year! It’s almost impossible to believe that it’s already 2022, but here we are, starting another fresh calendar. I hope that you all have a wonderful day today and it kicks off an even better year. Today’s quotes about the New Year are to help with the festivities.

1. “New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future.” -Munia Khan

2. “Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!” -Ogden Nash

3. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -Oprah Winfrey

4. “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.’” -Alfred Lord Tennyson

5. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

6. “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. The hangover begins the next day and lasts through Super Bowl Sunday, when you lose whatever money you had left from Christmas by betting on the Toronto Blue Jays, who are not even a football team. The rest of the holiday season is spent adding up bills.” -P.J. O’Rourke

7. “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

8. “Another year! Use it kindly; you will not have it long, and almost ere you are aware, it will be past.” -Charles F. Raymond

9. “Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!” -Mehmet Murat ildan

10. “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

11. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” -Brad Paisley

12. “On New Year’s Eve, the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” -Akilnathan Logeswaran

13. “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

14. “New Year Resolutions: 1. To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. 2. To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” -James Agate

15. “New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach

16. “Some people are looking forward to a Christmas they’ll never forget — and a New Year’s Eve they’ll never remember.” -Unknown

17. “Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough

18. “New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” -Alex Morritt

19. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” -Charles Lamb

20. “Average life of a good resolution — Twenty minutes.” -Charles Searle

21. “And then there was the psychiatrist who put a sign on his door that read: ‘And a well-adjusted new year to you all.’” -Ruth MacKay

22. “The book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” -Edith Lovejoy Pierce

23. “Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.” -Unknown

24. “In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate with your dreams.” -Bamigboye Olurotimi

25. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year.” -John R. Dallas Jr.

26. “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

27. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” -Neil Gaiman

28. “If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” -Cyril Cusack

29. “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” -William R. Gerler

30. “Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.” -Avina Celeste

31. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” -Melody Beattie

32. “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

33. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” -Benjamin Franklin

34. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” -Vern McLellan

35. “In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!” -Mehmet Murat ildan

36. “I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?” -Catherine O’Hara

37. “Another fresh new year is here Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give!” -William Arthur Ward

38. “‘Happy New-year! Happy New-year!’ It is the day of hope and a fresh beginning. Old debts shall be forgiven; old feuds forgotten; old friendships revived. To day shall be better than yesterday. The good vows shall be kept. A blessing shall be wrung from the fleet angel Opportunity. There shall be more patience, more courage, more faith; the dream shall become life; to day shall wear the glamour of to morrow. Ring out the old, ring in the new!” -George William Curtis

39. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach

40. “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.” -G.K. Chesterton

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