42 Inspirational New Year Quotes and Captions for a Fresh Start to Your Year (2024)

16 Inspiring Books to Help You Start Fresh in the New Year

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

Buddha

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You know how I always dread the whole year? Well this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time

Charlie Brown

Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight, when it's exactly twelve o'clock that night.

Ella Fitzgerald, ”What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?”

Happy new year, happy new year. May we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbor is a friend.

Abba, "New Year's Day"

If you didn't come to party, don’t bother knockin' on my door.

Prince, "1999"

New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

Alex Morritt

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

T.S. Eliot

We should celebrate every year that we made it through.

Ellen DeGeneres

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

David Bowie

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Baby, it's New Years Eve, a time we can believe in making wishes. Dreams come true, just for me and you.

NSYNC, “Kiss Me at Midnight”

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

Neil Gaiman

Let's celebrate the inception of improved us, not the new year.

Mohith Agadi

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

And you asked me what I want this year. And I try to make this kind and clear—just a chance that maybe we'll find better days.

Goo Goo Dolls, "Better Days"

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma

We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them

Hillary DePiano

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

Taylor Swift

This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.

Terri Guillemets

I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.

Unknown

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

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

Brad Paisley

In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year's. Let's make it ours.

Beyoncé

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.

Ben Jonson

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

Benjamin Franklin

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'It will be happier.''

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Ellen Goodman

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

You'll never get bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do.

Dr. Seuss

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hey friend, don't you dare forget, as you're creating a new you, that there's a whole lot about the old you that is worth keeping.

Toni Sorenson

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

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

James Agate

I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

Joey Adams

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain

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

Oscar Wilde

There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

Zayn Malik