New Year Wishes Quotes

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

Ann Landers

New Year, Memories, Love You

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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

John Selden

New Year, Resolution, Happy New Year

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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

Inspirational, New Year, Time

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I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

Robert Clark

Inspirational, New Year, Years

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness, New Year, Hope

"The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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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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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

New Year, Zest, Years

William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

Michael Josephson

New Year, Opportunity, Years

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I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Tucker Carlson

Motivational, New Year, Knowing

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Tom Peters

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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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

New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Rainer Maria Rilke

New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

New Year, Years, Great Year

James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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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

Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Funny, New Year, Drinking

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

George William Curtis

New Year, Determination, Years

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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Charles Lamb

Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

New Year, Cheer, Holiday

Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.152, e-artnow

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Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Eric Zorn

Funny, New Year, Honesty

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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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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels

Success, New Year, New Day

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