The new year has made its arrival so let’s start the year off on a high. The new year is a new opportunity for a second chance. Many of us use this time of the year to think about where we are and where we want to go. We often set goals and make resolutions hoping for a better year. New Year’s quotes can keep us motivated to get through times when we want to give up on our goals.

What will the new year bring? We may make New Year’s Resolutions or Set Goals or simply set expectations. I have free printable to-do lists and a daily tracker worksheet available below if you want to track your daily goals.

These new year quotes and sayings are from a variety of poets, writers, etc. We all need a little motivation from time to time. Sometimes we ask ourselves….

What will the new year bring?

What did I start and not finish?

What did I try and failed?

What do I need to meet my goals?

This post features 50 of the best new year quotes and sayings to keep you motivated for the new year. The quotes for the new year are both inspirational and motivational. When we set goals , we can’t just go through the motions. If we do, however, we have little chance of success . I hope that the new year is amazing and prosperous for you.

50 New Year’s Quotes and Sayings to Keep You Motivated

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ―Arthur Ash Learning never exhausts the mind. ―Leonardo da Vinci Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ― Alfred Tennyson “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ― Oprah Winfrey “New year is the other name of a dreamful future” ― Munia Khan “To succeed in the new year, you have to set your priority right, pursue your goals with zeal and do away with procrastination.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein 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 “Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan The best way to predict the future is to create it. —Peter Drucker “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot “Much like life, you don’t complete a puzzle by throwing away the pieces.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough “Let go of what was and embrace what to be.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. ―Maya Angelou “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ― Josiyah Martin “Forget not the past. The past prepares us for the present. The present equipped us for the future.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. ―Rainer Maria Rilke 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 “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.” ―Edith Lovejoy Pierce “When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”― L.M. Montgomery “If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” ―Cyril Cusack Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. ―St. Jerome “Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” ― Kelly Martin “Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.” ―Morihei Ueshiba No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February. ―Suze Orman “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ― C.S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ―Les Brown Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. –Sam Levenson A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ―Ayn Rand Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ―Robert H. Schuller If you can dream it, you can do it. ―Walt Disney In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. ―Nikos Kazantzakis Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ―Charles R. Swindoll What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ―Ralph Marston It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ―Confucius Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ―Og Mandino To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. ―A. P. J. Abdul Kalam You must do the things you think you cannot do. ―Eleanor Roosevelt If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ―Milton Berle I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ―Jimmy Dean The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. ―H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Change your thoughts and you change your world. ―Norman Vincent Peale The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ―Arthur C. Clarke Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! ―Audrey Hepburn We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ―E. M. Forster “Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” –Goethe





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