A perfect way to start the New Year is to say goodbye to the old and hello to a new beginning with some inspirational, positive, and meaningful happy New Year quotes to focus on all the wonderful opportunities that will come your way.
Whether you’re looking for short New Year quotes, New Year quotes for family, or emotional New Year quotes for your partner, we’ve put together the best New Year wishes and quotes you can get crafty with on a New Year greetings card for loved ones. They’re positive quotations to make 2023 the best year ever and you can effortlessly draw inspiration for your 2023 motto from them. Mine is “I am grateful and happy for all that I have.”
Best New Year Quotes to start 2023 with a purpose.
May the following inspirational new year quotes, inspire you to stay positive through the year, achieve more, and practice gratitude.
Short new year quotes
“The best is yet to come.”— Frank Sinatra
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.”— Steve Harvey
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”— George Eliot
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”— Karen Kaiser Clark
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”— T.S. Eliot
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”— E.E. Cummings
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”— Criss Jami
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”—Melody Beattie
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.”—Hal Borland
“You will never win if you never begin.”—Helen Rowland
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.”— Nick Frederickson
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.”—Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” Henry David Thoreau
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”—Nelson Mandela
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”—Neale Donald Walsch
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”— Brad Paisley
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”— Oprah Winfrey
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”— C.S. Lewis
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”—John D. Rockefeller
New year quotes for family
Just as new year family outfits, inspirational quotations can make you feel great and inspire people you share it with not to bend their head but look the world into the eyes and start up the new year with a lot of courage and positivity.
“A family doesn’t have to perfect; it just needs to be united.”– Unknown
“A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”– Pat Conroy
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” —George Bernard Shaw
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”– Walt Disney
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”– George Moore
“A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” – Vito Corleone, The Godfather
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”– Oscar Wilde
“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”– Douglas Coupland
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”– Mark V. Olsen
“Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.”– Lisa Weed
“Being part of a family means smiling for photos.”– Harry Morgan
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”– Jane Howard
“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.”– Barbara Bush
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”– Anthony Liccione
“Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.”– Unknown
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.”― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Funny new year quotes
Whether you have made some funny New Year resolutions or not, you can still incorporate humor in your New Year greeting cards and wishes by picking from the following best funny New Year quotes below, to start the New Year with laughter.
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” – Joey Adams
“It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.” – William Thomas
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
“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
“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
“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years.” – Henry Moore
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” – James Agate
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb
“My New Year’s resolution is to stop hanging out with people who ask me about my New Year’s resolutions.” -Anonymous
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”—Steve Martin
“A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.”– Denis Waitley
Emotional new year quotes
Finding a bunch of New Year quotes for him or her that are emotional and positive, could be the best way to make someone close to your heart feel special, loved, cherished, and motivated. The following heart-touching New Year quotes are deep, inspirational, and can easily connect with your loved ones to give them an incredible boost to start the New Year with positivity and happiness.
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”- Omar Khayyam
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”- Lao Tzu
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that, is what changes what you are.”- Soren Kierkegaard
“He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow.”- Friedrich Nietzsche
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”- Roy Croft
“If you were able to believe in Santa Claus for like 8 years, you can believe in yourself for like 5 minutes.”
“In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines.”- Mike Dolan
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”- Albert Camus
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”- Neale Donald Walsch
“Life is in ourselves and not in the external.”- Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”- Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”- John W. Gardner
“Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.”- C S Lewis
“Love asks me no questions and gives me endless support.”– William Shakespeare
“Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it’s the only way to love life completely.”- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”- Lao Tzu
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”- James Baldwin
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!”- Sophocles
“Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.”- Phil Cousineau
“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.”- Eckhart Tolle
“The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.”
“The soul lives there in the silent breath.”- Rumi
“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.”
“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.”- Dennis Rodman
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”- Sir Arthur Pinero
“To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live.”- Victor Hugo
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”- Sam Keen
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” – Blaise Pascal
“You are a hurricane of a girl; remember to breathe every once in a while, do not drown within your own storm.”
“You deserve to be happy. You deserve to live a life that lights you up. Don’t ever forget that.”— Coco Calla
“Your way of thinking affects your life very deeply. So think positive and be positive.”- Anurag Prakash Ray
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.”– Elbert Hubbard
New year quotes for students
What can you say to inspire students this New Year or anyone in the education sector? New Year, new journey quotes will build your mind to get ready for unlimited opportunities to get things done the right way this year!
Getting back to school after the holiday can leave a student excited or nervous; teachers are also not left out in this. Inspirational New Year quotes for students have always been the best way to rekindle in students the strength and passion to pursue academic excellence and moral rectitude. Students and teachers can draw inspiration from the following positive New Year quotations for a fresh start.
“And now we welcome the New Year. Full of things that have never been”-Rainer Maria Rilke
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”-Tom Peters
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right”- Oprah Winfrey
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell
“Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” — Chinese proverb
“The beginning is the most important part of the work”-Plato
“The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written”-Melody Beattie
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“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
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year”- Vern McLellan
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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