60 New Year Reflection Quotes for a Fresh Start

The new year is the perfect time to pause, reflect, and set intentions for the future, so we’ve gathered 60 of the best New Year reflection quotes for your next post.

And if you’re looking for thoughtful and inspiring sayings to celebrate growth and new beginnings, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens

“Each new day is another chance to change your life. Remember that.” — Unknown

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates

“What we think, we become.” — Buddha

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” — C.S. Lewis

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie

“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

“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” — Helen Keller

“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” — Charles Lamb

“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley

“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

“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” — Walter Scott

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein

“As we look forward to the new year, let’s resolve to better the world around us.” — Unknown

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie

“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

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca

“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

“The new year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet spread; a song not yet sung.” — Mehmet Murat ildan

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier…'” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan

“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

“May all your troubles last as long as your resolutions.” — Joey Adams

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” — Lao Tzu

“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“New Year’s resolutions are an exercise in self-improvement, but they’re also a test of our self-discipline.” — Unknown

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot

“Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” — Unknown

“The new year is a time to reflect on the past and set goals for the future.” — Unknown

“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.” — Ellen Goodman

“The new year is a time for new beginnings, new opportunities, and new challenges.” — Unknown

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A new year is simply the turn of a calendar page, but what we fill it with is what matters.” — Unknown

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C.S. Lewis

“With the old year gone, we see the new year’s dawn, and hope springs eternal in the human breast.” — Alexander Pope