112 End of the Year Quotes: Say Goodbye to the Old and Hello to the New
The end of the year is a time for reflection, celebration, and looking forward to new beginnings.
Whether you’re reminiscing about the past year or setting goals for the next, a thoughtful quote can capture the essence of this special time.
If you’re searching for the perfect end-of-year quotes to inspire and uplift, you’ve come to the right place.
We’ve gathered a collection of quotes that will help you bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new one with hope and positivity.
Scroll through to find your favorite quote and let it inspire your journey into the new year.
Our Favorite End Of The Year Quotes
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The best is yet to come.” – Frank Sinatra
“New year, new feels, new chances. Same dreams, fresh starts.” – Unknown
“Every end is a new beginning.” – Proverb
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.” – Hal Borland
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” – Walter Scott
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier.'” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“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
“For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.” – Gisele Bundchen
“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Just read one book a month and at the end of the year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.” – Amit Kalantri
“Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.” – Ernest Haskins
“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
“At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present.” – Roberto Goizueta
“Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.” – Matsuo Basho
“Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.” – Charlotte Eriksson
“At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it’s pretty friggin long.” – Dean Lombardi
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
“Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories.” – Munia Khan
“Let us embrace the coming year with a living hope for everyday life.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” – Auliq Ice
“Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.” – Brittany Murphy
“We can find a new hope every new day and every New Year.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” – Neil Gaiman
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter F. Drucker
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” – Anne Frank
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“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
“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
“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.” – Anais Nin
“The year end brings no greater pleasure than the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.” – Charles Dickens
“As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.” – Simon Newcomb
“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
“I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.” – Darrell Hammond
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.” – C.J. Cherryh
“Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.” – Ellen Goodman
“Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist’s proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.” – Alain De Botton
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca The Younger
“Tonight’s December thirty-first, / Something is about to burst. / The clock is crouching, dark and small, / Like a time bomb in the hall. / Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. / Duck! Here comes another year!” – Ogden Nash
“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.” – Sarah Kay
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” – Fennel Hudson
“Looking back at the end of the year created a little more serious mood than before.” – Paul Klee
“I won’t be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I’ve got a lot out of it, I have to admit I’ll welcome the chance to rest.” – Kazuo Ishiguro
“Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.” – James Hudson Taylor
“Is it just me, or did this year go by faster than ever? I mean, it actually seems like time is speeding up. Lately, I have been getting up earlier everyday. I don’t know why. I guess it’s the excitement of the end of the year or something. I’ve only got a few days left.” – Felicity Porter
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – Bill Vaughn
“We are now at the New Year season. Isn’t this a peculiarly appropriate time to look ahead, to indulge in solemn thinking, to formulate life plans, to lay down a definite course to follow?” – B.C. Forbes
“Let us enter the New Year cheerfully. Let us resolve to look onto the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory.” – B.C. Forbes
“I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club or in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I feel it’s very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.” – Debbie Harry
“In the past people were drinking because they were socially phobic or they needed to blow off steam at the end of the year. Now they’re overdoing it because their bonuses were decreased, their hours have gone up or their job security isn’t as safe as it used to be.” – Harris Stratyner
“May you begin the Year with cheer, / Surrounded by those you hold dear, / And end it on the same high gear.” – Miriam Kinai
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” – G.K. Chesterton
“At the end of the day, it’s about what’s on the shelf at the end of the year.” – Steve Coppell
“For eleven months and about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.” – Arthur H. Sulzberger
“It is really an atrocious institution. We must be gluttonous because it is Christmas. We must be drunken because it is Christmas. . . . We must buy things that nobody wants and give them to people we don’t like; because the mass of the population, including the all-powerful middle-class tradesman, depends on a week of license and brigandage, waste and intemperance, to clear off its outstanding liabilities at the end of the year.” – George Bernard Shaw
“This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody’s world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. . . . How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?” – Zadie Smith
“Women get a little more excited about New Year’s Eve than men do. It’s like an excuse: You get drunk; you make a lot of promises you’re not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date.” – Jay Leno
“Tomorrow’ill be the happiest time of all the glad New Year; / Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest merriest day;” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“When I go, I’ll take New Year’s Eve with me.” – Guy Lombardo
“As the vulgar . . . are always very careful to end the old year well, so they are no less solicitous of making a good beginning of the new one. The old one is ended with a hearty compotation. The new one is opened with the custom of sending presents, which are termed New Year’s Gifts, to friends and acquaintance.” – John Brand
“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 circumstance; 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 past.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“These year’s-end holidays have in them the quality of transition that we find in other festivals of the new year, no matter when they are celebrated. Yom Kippur marks the end of the solemn days and the beginning of the regular days of the new year. The Ten Days, during which the gates of heaven are open, are a time out of time, a period of liminality during which people can shape their destinies, retract vows and right wrongs. In short one can make oneself over for the new year, in a way that recalls, however dimly, the custom of New Year’s resolutions.” – Jack Santino
“I leave this year as a man leaves wine, / Remembering the summer bountiful, the good fall, the months mellow and full. / I sit in the northern room, in the dusk, the death of a year, / And watch it go down in thunder.” – William Everson
“The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on our spiritual progress. Whether you set goals at the beginning of this year or not, it is certainly good to ask where you have been this year and whether you are heading in the right direction.” – Christopher Perry
“Because life is dynamic and we are deeply alive, the end of the year can only mean the end of the year, not the end of life, not the end of us, not even the end of time. We turn our faces toward the year being born with a riding hope that will carry us into the days ahead with courage and with confidence. The old year dies; the new year is being born — Long live Life!” – Howard Thurman
“It’s about not extending to the overdraft / To scrape out what is left of the end of the year” – Matthew Murphy; Tom Overland Knudsen; Dan Haggis
“The wine’s all drunk and so am I / Here with the hoi-poloi, don’t ask me why / We’re celebratin’ anticipatin’; end of the year” – Peter Gabriel
“They put up the Christmas lights on my street / I saw Santa at the mall hearing kids’ dreams / And all of this end-of-the-year spirit’s got me so thankful / But I really need you there when I get home” – Gwen Stefani; Justin Tranter; Michael James; Ryan Busbee
“Year’s end, all / corners of this / floating world, swept.” – Matsuo Basho
“Last of all, December, / The year’s sands nearly run, / Speeds on the shortest day, / Curtails the sun;” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“As one in sorrow looks upon / The dead face of a loyal friend, / By the dim light of New Year’s dawn / I saw the Old Year end.” – James Whitcomb Riley
“What does this brazen tongue declare, / That falling on the midnight air / Brings to my heart a sense of care / Akin to fright? / ‘Tis telling that the year is dead, / The New Year come, the Old Year fled, / Another leaf before me spread / On which to write.” – James Weldon Johnson
“Old papers thrown away, / Old garments cast aside, / The talk of yesterday, / All things identified; / But times once torn away / No voices can recall: / The eve of New Year’s Day / Left the Old Year lost to all.” – John Clare
“And now the year is done — its pleasure / So brief, so bright — its hours of pain; / Some moments’ memories we treasure, / Some recollections loathe in vain.” – Edith Nesbit
“Even while we sing, he smiles his last, / And leaves our sphere behind. / The good old year is with the past; / Oh be the new as kind! / Oh stay, oh stay, / One parting strain, and then away.” – William Cullen Bryant
“Then, too, the Old Year dieth, / And the forests utter a moan, / Like the voice of one who crieth / In the wilderness alone, / ‘Vex not his ghost!'” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern McLellan
Inspirational End of Year Quotes
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“The best time for new beginnings is now.” – Unknown
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“The new year means nothing if you’re still in love with your comfort zone.” – Unknown
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.” – Hal Borland
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
“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.” – Peggy Toney Horton
“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.” – Anais Nin
