Years Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let each new year find you a better person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Year, Old Year, Best Year

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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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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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• 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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• 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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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happy, New Year, Dream

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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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• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, New Year, Great Year

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Life, New Year

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.44

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Courage, Fall

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

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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 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

  "Happy New Year" by Ligaya Mishan, www.newyorker.com. December 29, 200.

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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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• Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Great Year

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

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Old Year, Best Year

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

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• 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.

  Ellen Goodman

  New Year, Drawing, Balance

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• The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

  Melody Beattie

  New Year, Book, Writing

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

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• Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happy, New Year, Great Year

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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

  Jay Leno

  New Year, Holiday, Great Year

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