We spend January 1st 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.
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.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
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.
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
Women get a little more excited about New Year's Eve than men do. It's like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you're not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date.
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, American author, political activist, and lecturer “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.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
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