Happy New Year Inspirational Quotes

• A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

  Greg Reid

  Inspirational, Dream, New Year

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• A good beginning makes a good end.

  Louis L'Amour

  New Beginnings, Beginnings And Ends, Starting

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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

  Change, Wisdom, New Year

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Einstein: A Centenary Volume". Book by A.P. French, p. 32, 1980.

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• 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

  New Year, Book, Writing

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

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• 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

  New Year, Eye, Holiday

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• New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Marriage, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• You raze the old to raise the new.

  Justina Chen

  New Beginnings, Raises, North Of Beautiful

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• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

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• Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Karma, Dream

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• Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Holiday, Years

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

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• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  "The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927" by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, New Year, Zest

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Kissing, Thinking

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• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

  Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

  New Year, Holiday, Old Year

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• Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

  Dave Beard

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

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