Inspirational New Year Quotes

There are some who want to cast a dark shadow over the New Year.  Bleak financial forecasts, ominous predictions and other negative expectations seem to cloud our annual welcome of the New Year.  Let these inspiring quotes on the New Year cheer up your heart and help you keep a positive outlook on the year ahead.

“A Happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.”

-- Edgar Guest

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.”—Benjamin Franklin

“Cheers to a New Year and to another chance for us to get it right.”—Oprah Winfrey

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

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”—Abraham Lincoln

“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

“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

“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 potentials.”—Ellen Goodman

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things.”—John Burroughs

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”—Cavett Robert

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general endowment.”—Sydney Smith