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New Year Quotes

Hopefully these New Year quotes can help you lighten up a little and see the humor of life.

We tend to be so hard on ourselves. We have been pre-programmed to believe we are broken. By setting New Year's resolutions, we hope to make positve changes over the course of a few weeks.

Change is a life long process. Using will-power to attempt a habit change is virtually impossible and most are setting themselves up for failure.

So my advice this New Year is to relax and enjoy. Take time to reflect on your accomplishments over the last year.

"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty."
~John Selden~

"A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one year and out the other."
~Author Unknown~

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
~Oprah Winfrey~ New Year quotes

"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~

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on
New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."
~Bill Vaughan~

"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~

"Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man."
~Benjamin Franklin~

"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits."
~Author Unknown~

"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.
It is that from which all date their time, and count upon
what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam."
~Charles Lamb~ New Year Quotes

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
~Charles Lamb~

"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~

"The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead.
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.
All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!"
~Edward Payson Powell~

"The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn."
~Hartley Coleridge~

"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to."
~P.J. O'Rourke~

"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."
~George William Curtis~

"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
~Mark Twain~ New Year Quotes

"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas."
~Author Unknown~

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
~Henry Ward Beecher~

"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."
~T.S. Eliot~ New Year Quotes

"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~

“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul”
~G. K. Chesterton~

"Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."
~Mark Twain~ New Year Quotes

"Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
~Walter Scott~

"Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth."
~Martin Luther King~ New Year Quotes

"And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen."
~Thomas Hood~

"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~

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw
on a bank where they have no account."
~Oscar Wilde~ New Year Quotes

"A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it."
~Mark Twain~

"But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits."
~Andre Gide~

"New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.
Unless, of course, those tests come back positive."
~Jay Leno~ New Year Quotes

"We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier~

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep,
is this: To rise above the little things."
~John Burroughs~

"Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching
is the peal which rings out the Old Year."
~Charles Lamb~ New Year Quotes

"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's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”
~James Agate~

"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets."
~William Thomas~

"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~

"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions."
~Joey Adams~ New Year Quotes

"He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool."
~F.M. Knowles~

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's."
~Henry Moore~

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
~Thomas Mann~

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of
making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding
my life, is too much of a daily event for me."
~Anaïs Nin~

"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions."
~Mark Twain~ New Year Quotes

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
~Jean Paul Richter~

"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~

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