Happy New Year! It’s time to start fresh and make some changes in your life. You may feel like you’re starting over again, but don’t worry; there’s always room for improvement. The New Year brings hope for a better future. Read through this list of inspiring New Year’s quotes to remind yourself that there’s always room for improvement.

New Year’s quotes for new beginnings

“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

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

“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

“You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” – Dr. Seuss

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson

“A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back—you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.” – Jodi Picoult

“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie

“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

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

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” – Mary Oliver

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

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

“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a new year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” – Susan Sontag

“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.” – Hal Borland

“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.” – Beyoncé

“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

“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

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…”- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“So New Year, I have too many hopes in you. I hope you lead me safely to the shore. I hope you can be nice to me, just nice and nothing more. I hope you vanquish this tornado of sores … All I ask for is some peace around.”- Noha Alaa El-Din

“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.” – Maya Angelou

“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have to 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

“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” – Paolo Coelho

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.”- Anne Frank

“The last hours, minutes, and seconds for disappearing old year to start a new year; it only can be beneficial and fruitful when each one of us also changes and starts a new and fair attitude and character that respect humanity and eliminate all sorts of distinctions to become an equal and peaceful planet.” – Ehsan Sehgal

“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

“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.” – Zayn Malik

“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

“It wouldn’t be new year’s if I didn’t have regrets.”- William Thomas

“A new year. A fresh, clean start! It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities!” – Bill Watterson

“The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“How we handle what’s ahead of us will be determined by what we learned from everything that’s behind us. For if we learned nothing, what’s behind us will be the exact same thing that’s in front of us.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the New Year, never forget to thank 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

“It wouldn’t be new year’s if I didn’t have regrets.”- William Thomas

“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca

“Don’t make plans. Make options.” – Jennifer Aniston

“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

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Each new year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year — the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.” – Peggy Toney Horton

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