70 Short Reflection Quotes That Help Move Forward

The end of the year makes you pause. You think about what worked, what didn’t and how much you’ve grown even through the hard days.

Reflection isn’t about regret. It’s about understanding yourself better.

These new year reflection quotes help you close the year with clarity and step into the next one with intention.

New Year Reflection Quotes

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

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

“The beginning is always today.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein

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

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

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” — Anne Frank

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

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

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year.” — John R. Dallas

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

“If you want the future to be different, start by making the present different.” — Unknown but often wrongly attributed

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

“The years teach much that the days never know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn.” — Hartley Coleridge

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

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” — Guy Finley

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” — Carl Bard

“You will never win if you never begin.” — Helen Rowland

“Past and future are in the mind only. I am now.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” — Richie Norton

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

“To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.” — Mother Teresa

“The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” — John Banville

“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” — William Penn

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” — Albert Einstein

“Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

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

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” — William Shakespeare

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

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” — Lewis Carroll

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

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future. Act now.” — Simone de Beauvoir

“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford

“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” — Deepak Chopra

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” — Albert Einstein

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart.” — Imam Al Ghazali

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.” — Emily Dickinson

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them.” — Lao Tzu

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” — Pema Chödrön

“Time changes everything except something within us always surprised by change.” — Thomas Hardy

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” — George Eliot

“Take rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” — Ovid

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” — Robert Frost

“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“The key to change is to let go of fear.” — Rosanne Cash

“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C. S. Lewis

“The bad news is nothing lasts forever. The good news is nothing lasts forever.” — Jodi Picoult

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

“You cannot step into the same river twice.” — Heraclitus

“Time discovers truth.” — Seneca

“You can waste your lives drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them.” — Shonda Rhimes

“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.” — Aldous Huxley

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