63 New Year Resolutions Quotes (Goals, Fresh Starts & Keeping Your Promises)

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

C.S. Lewis

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Walter Scott

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Charles Lamb

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Charles Dickens

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

John Burroughs

If you asked me for my New Year resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Cyril Cusack

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Michael Josephson

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.

Vern McLellan

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

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty to keep it.

John Hunter

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

F.M. Knowles

I shall stick to my resolution of always writing what I think no matter who it offends.

Julia Ward Howe

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

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

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

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

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Aleister Crowley

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

Dave Beard

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Unknown

New Year’s resolutions are a bit like babies: they’re fun to make but extremely difficult to maintain.

Unknown

My New Year’s resolution is to procrastinate… starting tomorrow.

Unknown

Exercise? I thought you said extra fries.

Unknown

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

Mother Teresa

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Nelson Mandela

The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

G.K. Chesterton

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Albert Einstein

The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William Butler Yeats

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year.

John R. Dallas Jr.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Charles Kettering

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

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

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

Mehmet Murat Ildan