New Year Quotes

Welcome to my page of new year quotes. Depending on where you are from — in time, space, and culture — the new year can mean the end of autumn, the winter solstice, the first of January, or the beginning of spring. For many it is a time to honor and reflect on the past, let go, and celebrate the potential of the future. However or whenever you observe your new year, I hope you enjoy these literary harvests! And when you've had your fill or if you don't find exactly what you're looking for here, check out the bottom of this page for several categories of related quotations

• Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to. ~Bill Vaughn 

• 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

• Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author unknown

• Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle, if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but, on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take interest in the things that are and are to be, and not in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher

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

• Hope and faith flower from the cheerful seeds of the old year to the sprouting garden of the new year's dawn. ~Terri Guillemets

• Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~David J. Beard

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

• There are those who try to bottle the old year for safekeeping but at midnight the cork always pops. ~Terri Guillemets

• The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom. ~Terri Guillemets

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

• May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Arnold Glasow