Happy New Year 2024 quotes for inspiration and celebration.
It's almost time to bid 2023 goodbye and ring at the start of 2024! To mark the occasion, we've rounded up 55 of the best New Year's quotes for you as you prepare for the ball to drop on New Year's Eve.
Collected from famous authors and thinkers, modern-day influencers, New Year's Eve song lyrics, and famous lines from New Year's movies, these short and inspirational quotes are perfect for sharing as New Year wishes for friends and family—or even just to jot down in your private journal on January 1st as you look ahead to a new year and a new beginning in 2024.
1. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
2. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
3. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma
4. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”
―Josiyah Martin
6. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”—J.P. Morgan
7. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
8. "New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
9. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
—Thomas Jefferson
10. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
10. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
11. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein
12. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
13. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk
14. “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
15. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” ―Vern McLellan
16. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent
17. "Stir the eggnog. Lift the toddy. Happy New Year, everybody!"
―Phyllis McGinley
18. "Every moment is a fresh beginning." ― T.S. Eliot
19. "New Year's Day is every man's birthday." ―Charles Lamb
20. "Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year."
―Mehmet Murat Ildan
21. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." ―Albert Einstein
22 "You are never too old to reinvent yourself." ―Steve Harvey
23. "This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change." ―Taylor Swift
24. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
―George Bernard Shaw
25. "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."―Rumi
26. "No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless." ―Drake
27. "Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress." ―Charles Kettering
28. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
― C.S. Lewis
29. "The new year begins in a snowstorm of white vows." ―George William Curtis
30. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." ―Eleanor Roosevelt
31. "And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."― Meister Eckhart
32. "Send loving Happy New Year quotes to your family this NYE! Whether you are close or far away, the beginning of the New Year is a perfect time to keep in touch and show loved ones that you care."―Unknown
33." Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."―Helen Keller
34. "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained."
― Winston Churchill
35. "Another fresh new year is here Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!" ―William Arthur Ward
36. "What I hope for this New Year is to give love to my family, and good wishes to all my friends."―Anon
37. "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
38. "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."―Robert Breault
39. "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."
—Akilnathan Logeswaran
40. "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
41. "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."
—Brad Paisley
42. "For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice." —T.S. Eliot
43. "Be at war with your vices, at Peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man." —Benjamin Franklin
44. "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
45. "We spend January 1 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
46."And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
47. "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!"
—Mehmet Murat Ildan
48. "As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happenings of the past year and ask for direction and guidance in the new one. May He grant us His grace, His tranquility, and His wisdom!" —Peggy Toney Horton
49. "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
50. "We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we're happier and healthier." —Ellen DeGeneres
51. "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
52. "New years will keep coming in our lives as long as we live, but how do we manage to live with prosperity in that every new year and help others around us do the same? Isn't that what we should plan and celebrate? So, let's celebrate the inception of improved us, not the new year." —Mohith Agadi
53. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” —Karen Kaiser Clark
55. "This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun." —Taylor Duvall
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