If you're spending New Year's Eve out with friends, dancing the last few hours of 2022 away, or are staying at home to snuggle in and watch some movies to pass the time until the ball drops, reading an inspirational quote is a meaningful annual tradition that celebrates all that you have accomplished in 2022 and all that will come in 2023. New Year's quotes will set the morning of January 1 on the right note, so you can leap into the new year with newfound motivation to achieve your goals and resolutions.
The following quotes by authors, singers, actors, and thinkers will help put into words the mixed feelings of a chapter in your life coming to a close as the countdown to 2023 comes closer. There are also religious quotes you can read aloud as a New Year's prayer in addition to your favorite Bible verses about new beginnings.
Regardless of which New Year's quotes speak to you the most, sharing one or more with those you love will certainly bring luck and prosperity into all of your lives — even more so if you deliver these lines while wearing lucky New Year's colors.
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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.”
“Each new year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year — the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.”
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier.'”
“So New Year, I have too many hopes in you. I hope you lead me safely to the shore. I hope you can be nice to me, just nice and nothing more. I hope you vanquish this tornado of sores … All I ask for is some peace around.”
“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
“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.”
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
“In the new year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!”
“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.”
“New year is another opportunity of seeing life with little more caring, compassion, maturity and beauty.”
“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.”
“The last hours, minutes, and seconds for disappearing old year to start a new year; it only can be beneficial and fruitful when each one of us also changes and starts a new and fair attitude and character that respect humanity and eliminate all sorts of distinctions to become an equal and peaceful planet.”
“There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.”
“How we handle what’s ahead of us will be determined by what we learned from everything that’s behind us. For if we learned nothing, what’s behind us will be the exact same thing that’s in front of us.”
“New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of the future.”
“Let the sky celebrate! Let it pour some rain to wash away the past years' grief. Let the fireworks speak, announcing a new year to break, displaying seasons of different flavours.”
“Last year told you what you needed to know. Now it's go time.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.”
“In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.”
“For a change, don't add new things in your life as a New Year's resolution. Instead, do more of what's already working for you and stop doing things that are time-waste.”
“As we begin a new year, let’s discard what was jaded. Let’s put on in its place, the beautiful garments of Faith, Hope and Love.”
“Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more.”
“No brooding over old worries, let's start a new series. Forget about all the negativities, think of new possibilities. Here to conquering a new frontier, that's all I wish in the upcoming new year.”
“Reach forward to what lies ahead.”
“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.”
“What a heavy net it is, indeed, carrying as it does all the births, deaths, tragedies, wars, love stories, inventions, transformations, and calamities that are destined for all of us this coming year.”
“I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.”
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”
“Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.”
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.”
“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.”
“A New Year…a fresh, clean start. It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on.”
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“Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.”
“In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude, and be passionate with your dreams.”
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.”
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.”
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
"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."
"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
"Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year."
"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."
"Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing."
"What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year."
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
"New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."
"Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."
"On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world."
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
"A new year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it."
"With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world."
"Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day."
"Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever."
"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."
"Remove 'shoulds' from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now."
"I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings."
"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”
“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.”
"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”
“I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.”
“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”
“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.”
“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.”
“Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.”
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
“A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.”
“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come.”
“I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ‘til December, right?”
“To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“If you want an interesting party, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.”
Terri Huggins Hart
Terri Huggins Hart is an award-winning journalist, lifestyle writer, parenting writer, and race and culture writer who is convinced she's figured out the trick to living life with no regrets: do what you love, give love, lead with love.
Elizabeth Berry
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Elizabeth Berry (she/her) is the digital editorial assistant for Woman’s Day, where she covers seasonal recipes, holiday gift ideas, and other lifestyle topics for the website.
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