Years 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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• 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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• A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Men, Library

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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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• Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Time, Months, Fly Away

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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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• Let each new year find you a better person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Year, Old Year, Best Year

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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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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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  All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

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• The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

  Hartley Coleridge

  New Year, Old Year, Naked

  Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

  Robert Duvall

  Uncles, Men, Two

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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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• 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, Great Year

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

  Martin Luther

  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

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• Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.

  Ben Affleck

  Funny, New Year, Gay

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• Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?

  John Dos Passos

  New Year, Time, Easter

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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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• Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, New Year, Mean

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• One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

  Demi Lovato

  Unhappy, Trying, Emotion

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.178, Feiwel & Friends

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