77 First Day of the New Year Quotes
The first day of the new year feels different.
The air is lighter.
The possibilities feel bigger.
You wake up knowing you get another chance to shape your life the way you want it to be.
It’s a day filled with hope and quiet determination.
These first day of the new year quotes capture that feeling and help you begin with intention.
First Day of The New Year Quotes
“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
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” — Charles Lamb
“January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.” — M.L. Stedman
“January is the month for dreaming.” — Jean Hersey
“I like starting projects in January. That’s the best time to start something. It’s so quiet.” — Carolyn Chute
“If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” — Roald Dahl
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin
“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart
“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Light tomorrow with today.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“If you want the future to be different, make the present different.” — Zig Ziglar
“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.” — Ellen Goodman
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
“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
“The new year begins with the increasing of the light.” — Ovid
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things… learning, living.” — Neil Gaiman
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” — Hal Borland
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves.” — Edith Lovejoy Pierce
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“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
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” — L.M. Montgomery
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” — Alan Cohen
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” — Helen Keller
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.” — Lao Tzu
“A new year … a fresh, clean start! It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities!” — Bill Watterson
“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections.” — Charlotte Brontë
“Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” — G.K. Chesterton
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” — Germany Kent
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” — Abraham Lincoln
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” — Ernest Hemingway
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time.” — Charles Lamb
“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 are past.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” — Anne Frank
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.” — Seneca
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“The first wealth is health.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You do not find a happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” — Napoleon Hill
“Nothing is worth more than this day.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Don’t watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.” — Emily Dickinson
“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Well begun is half done.” — Aristotle
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
