42 Inspirational New Year Quotes and Captions for a Fresh Start to Your Year (2024)

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No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. You know how I always dread the whole year? Well this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight, when it's exactly twelve o'clock that night. Happy new year, happy new year. May we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbor is a friend. If you didn't come to party, don’t bother knockin' on my door. New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. We should celebrate every year that we made it through. I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. Baby, it's New Years Eve, a time we can believe in making wishes. Dreams come true, just for me and you. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever. Let's celebrate the inception of improved us, not the new year. And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. And you asked me what I want this year. And I try to make this kind and clear—just a chance that maybe we'll find better days. Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next. I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year's. Let's make it ours. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'It will be happier.'' 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. 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. You'll never get bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Hey friend, don't you dare forget, as you're creating a new you, that there's a whole lot about the old you that is worth keeping. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on. References

Come New Year's Eve, we're all looking for a little inspiration for the year ahead. These motivational, serious, and funny New Year's quotes or caption ideas from celebrities, beloved fictional characters, and other notables might have the power to give us a sunnier outlook for the brand new year.

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New Year's quotes, on the other hand, are all about celebrating after the New Year's Eve holiday: They're about making the most of a new year, and all the new years to come, with or without New Year's resolutions. Pick your favorite inspirational New Year's quote, and start the year with a fresh attitude.

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No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

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Buddha

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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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You know how I always dread the whole year? Well this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time

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Charlie Brown

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Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight, when it's exactly twelve o'clock that night.

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Ella Fitzgerald, ”What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?”

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Happy new year, happy new year. May we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbor is a friend.

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Abba, "New Year's Day"

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If you didn't come to party, don’t bother knockin' on my door.

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Prince, "1999"

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New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

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Alex Morritt

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.

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T.S. Eliot

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I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

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David Bowie

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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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William Shakespeare

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Baby, it's New Years Eve, a time we can believe in making wishes. Dreams come true, just for me and you.

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NSYNC, “Kiss Me at Midnight”

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Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

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Neil Gaiman

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Let's celebrate the inception of improved us, not the new year.

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Mohith Agadi

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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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And you asked me what I want this year. And I try to make this kind and clear—just a chance that maybe we'll find better days.

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Goo Goo Dolls, "Better Days"

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Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

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Robin Sharma

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We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them

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Hillary DePiano

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

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Taylor Swift

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This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.

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Terri Guillemets

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I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.

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Unknown

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

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Bill Vaughan

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Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

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Brad Paisley

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In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year's. Let's make it ours.

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Beyoncé

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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C.S. Lewis

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To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.

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Ben Jonson

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

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Benjamin Franklin

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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'It will be happier.''

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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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.

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Ellen Goodman

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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.

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Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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You'll never get bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do.

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Dr. Seuss

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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Hey friend, don't you dare forget, as you're creating a new you, that there's a whole lot about the old you that is worth keeping.

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Toni Sorenson

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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Maya Angelou

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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

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James Agate

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I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

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Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

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May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

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Joey Adams

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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Mark Twain

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Oscar Wilde

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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

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Zayn Malik

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