Old Year Quotes

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  Hal Borland

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  Brooks Atkinson

  New Year, Memories, Holiday

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

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Years, Best Year

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

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• Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

  Ann Landers

  New Year, Memories, Love You

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• I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

  Henry Moore

  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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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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• And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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• 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

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspiring, New Year, Song

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012

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• 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

  Inspirational, New Year, Time

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

  Joey Lauren Adams

  New Year, Holiday, Blessing

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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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• Let each new year find you a better person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Year, Years, Best Year

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  All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

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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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• 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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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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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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• No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Time, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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

  Charles Kettering

  New Year, Reality, Ideas

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Moving, Inspiration

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