New Years Toast Quotes

• 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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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• 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

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012

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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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• 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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• 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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• May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

  Drake

  Friendship, Family, Angel

  "Shot for Me". Song by Drake, 2011.

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• Let each new year find you a better person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Year, Years, Old Year

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• Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Mean, Under Construction

  "The Subconscious Diet : It's Not What You Put in Your Mouth; It Is What You Put in Your Mind" by Hugh B. Sanders, (p. 104), 2005.

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• When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!

  Brian O'Rourke

  Food, Fall, Drinking

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Happy

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  Brooks Atkinson

  New Year, Memories, 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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• New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

  Jay Leno

  New Year, Holiday, Years

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• May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

  P.B. Kerr

  Blessing, Past, May

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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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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• 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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• 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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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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