New Years Eve Inspirational Quotes

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

  Charles Lamb

  Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  George William Curtis

  New Year, Determination, Years

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• Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happy, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Inspirational, New Year, Loss

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• Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, New Year, Zest

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  Change, Wisdom, New Year

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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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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• Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Happy

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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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• Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

  John Selden

  New Year, Resolution, Happy New Year

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

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• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

  Edgar Guest

  New Year, Eye, Holiday

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

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• Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• This bright new year is given me

  William Arthur Ward

  New Year, Old Year, Zest

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• This bright new year is given me
  To live each day with zest
  To daily grow and try to be
  My highest and my best!

  William Arthur Ward

  New Year, Zest, Years

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  New Year, Holiday, Today

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• I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

  Robert Clark

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Marriage, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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