Happy New Year! Bring in the year on a positive note with these 15 uplifting quotes.
- “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, American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
- “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, Poet
- “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” T.S. Eliot, Essayist, poet, and playwright.
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – William E. Vaughan, American Columnist and author.
- “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis, Author
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist and Philosopher
- “Each year’s regret are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year.” – John R Dallas Jr, American Actor
- “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie, Author
- “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.“ Neil Gaiman, Author
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” – Anne Frank
- “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.” – Charles Kettering, American Inventor, Engineer, and the holder of 186 patents
- “New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” – James Agate, English Journalist, DIarist, and theater critic