The new year is here and it is time to work hard and smart on your goals and resolutions. To usher you into the new year with the right mindset and attitude, these inspirational new year quotes from great personalities will inspire and get you started on a positive note.
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1. “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” – Cavett Robert
2. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” –Albert Einstein
3. “The New Year symbolizes the ending of one year and the beginning of yet another. We celebrate this event, yet it is only a moment in time, like any other day. But it is also considered a time when new beginnings can happen.” – Catherine Pulsifer
5. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
6. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7. “To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.” –Bobby Bowden
8. “Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” – Michael Josephson
9. “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
10. “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
11. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” –Charles Kettering
12. “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
13. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.” –Sarah Ban Breathnach
14. “Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.” – Michael Josephson
15. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” –Rainer Maria Rilke
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16. “This bright new year is given me to live each day with zest, to daily grow and try to be my highest and my best!” – William Arthur Ward
17. “Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
18. “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
19. “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
20. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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21. “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
22. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
23. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coehlo
24. “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
25. “A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
26. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “There are greater things to be achieved in every New Year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by a lot of sacrifices.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
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