New Year New Beginning Quotes - Page 3

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

Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspirational, New Year, Eye

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The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

New Beginnings, Tunnels, New Start

Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Alan Cohen

Motivational, Change, Success

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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Louis L'Amour

Inspirational, Change, Time

"Lonely on the Mountain".

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

Cyril Cusack

Inspirational, New Year, Who I Am

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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Simon Newcomb

New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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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, Years

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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Motivational, Softball

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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

Inspirational, Funny, New Year

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.10, Purdue University Press

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A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

Inspirational, Motivational, New Beginnings

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A good beginning makes a good end.

Louis L'Amour

New Beginnings, Beginnings And Ends, Happy New Year Inspirational

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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

George Washington Carver

New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

Friedrich Nietzsche

New Beginnings, Order, Rooms

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.166, U of Nebraska Press

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But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

Alexandra Bracken

New Beginnings, Locks, Behind You

Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.78, Hachette UK

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

Cute, Positive, Leadership

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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, 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.

Goran Persson

New Year, Lying, Years

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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

Inspirational, Funny, New Year

"The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927" by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.

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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

New Year, Time, Years

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My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

Nia Vardalos

New Year, Years, Desire

"The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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Do your best with what you have where you are.

Lucy Punch

New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

Motivational, Dream, Spring

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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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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Saul Alinsky

Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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