160 Short Happy New Year Quotes and Wishes to Inspire Your Year
As another year draws to a close, it’s time to welcome a fresh start.
To help you celebrate, we’ve compiled a collection of the best short Happy New Year quotes.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration, humor, or heartfelt wishes, we’ve got you covered.
Now go ahead and find the perfect quote to ring in the New Year!
Short Happy New Year Quotes
“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early. My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall.” – Aleister Crowley
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” ―Hillary DePiano
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter waiting to be written.”- Sarah Ban Breathnach
“New Year’s most glorious light is sweet hope!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Celebrate endings for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.” – Laozi
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this, we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity.” – Goran Persson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings.” – Dalai Lama
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” —Charles Lamb
“I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.”- Jerry Spinelli
“Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
“When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” ―Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” —Anne Frank
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” —Steve Harvey
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding” ―C.J. Cherryh
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” —Arthur Rubenstein
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Ghandi
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“The New Year is a painting not yet painted.” ―Mehmet Murat ildan
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coehlo
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca
“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year.” —Melody Beattie
“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
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ―Josiyah Martin
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages.” – Peggy Toney Horton
“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
“Nothing is as good as coming into the new year with zeal, hope, and a positive mind.” – Bamigboye Olurotimi
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“New Year’s Day is to refuel life with a new enthusiasm.” – Anuj Somany
“Let the dawn of the New Year’s first day be the beginning of a new era.” – Anuj Somany
“The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.” – George William Curtis
“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” – Walter Scott
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.” – Jean Paul
“New Year brings fresh beginnings, exciting new experiences and relationships await.” – Peggy Toney Horton
“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.” – Jay Leno
“Ring out the old, ring in the new.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” – Michael Josephson
“Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I have stuck with it ever since.” – Dave Beard
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We can find a new hope every new day and every New Year.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn.” – Hartley Coleridge
“We joyfully pray with grateful hearts to welcome blessings in New Year.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard
“Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” —Taylor Duvall
“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings.” ―Craig D. Lounsbrough
“And I went into the New Year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.” – Dominic Riccitello
“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
“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 New Year’s Day is like starting a treasure hunt again from scratch, with a slightly altered map.” – Terri Guillemets
“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
“A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.” – Dorothea Benton Frank
“The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.” – Terri Guillemets
“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
“This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, and make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are and soar high. Make it happen!” – Pablo
“Bright New Year for a blessed beginning.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“A new year brings not only happiness, it makes us happy with a hope to fulfill our dreams or a new beginning of our life. So, a new year is very special to everyone.” – Santonu Kumar Dhar
“For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It isn’t only a new year, it is a new chance for everyone to restart.” – Mohammed Sekouty
“The old year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!” – Edward Payson Powell
“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
“Some people swear there’s no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?” – Claire Morgan
“Let each new year find you a better person.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A new year can begin only because the old year ends.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“Never leave anything out to dry as the sun comes up for the new year.” – Markus Zusak
“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
“In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The New Year means nothing if you’re still in love with your comfort zone.” – Rachel Wolchin
“There are greater things to be achieved in every New Year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by a lot of sacrifices.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“A new year is simply the turn of a calendar page and a beautiful chance for us to turn over a new leaf.” – Terri Guillemets
“A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it. Let’s welcome the 365 days it brings. Let’s live well with love in our hearts towards God and all people. Let’s walk through its corridors with praise songs on our lips.” – Anusha Atukorala
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” – Bill Vaughan
“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
“We spend January 1st 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.” – Ellen Goodman
“Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.” – Ellen Goodman
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – H. Jackson Brown
“New Year’s Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years.” – Henry Moore
“Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – J. P. Morgan
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J. P. Morgan
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above little things.” – John Burroughs
“We meet today to thank Thee for the era done, and Thee for the opening one.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.” – Judith Crist
“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.” – Laozi
“From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.” – Leonard Bernstein
“Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.” – Michael Josephson
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson
Funny New Year Quotes
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” – Bill Vaughan
“New year, old you.” ― A.D. Aliwat
“Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.” – Temitope Ibrahim
“Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!” ― D.S. Mixell
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” — Frank Scully
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” — David Bowie
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person.” – Anonymous
“My New Year’s resolution is to stop hanging out with people who ask me about my New Year’s resolutions.” – Anonymous
“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” – Anonymous
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” — Joey Adams
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” — F.M. Knowles
“I would say Happy New Year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.” – Robert Clark
Short Inspirational New Year Quotes
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma
“JANUARY, The first month of the year, A perfect time to start all over again.” — Charmaine J. Forde
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” — Mike Dooley
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” — Shauna Niequist
“New beginnings always start in the here-and-now.” — Richelle E. Goodman
“With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.” — Holly Black
“Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” — Alex Morritt
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
“We are the authors of our destinies.” — Nike Campbell-Fatoki
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” — Nick Frederickson
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan
“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” — Kristin Kreuk
Short Happy New Year Wishes
Happy New Year! Here’s to a year of good health, lots of love, and plenty of laughter.
Happy New Year. Here’s to having a fresh start at binge eating, boozing, and slacking off.
Happy New Year and good luck in the next year! We’ll both need it!
Happy New Year now and always!
Wishing you a Happy New Year with the hope that you will have many blessings in the year to come.
Out with the old, in with the new: may you be happy the whole year through. Happy New Year!
“Wishing you a year filled with new adventures and achievements. Happy New Year!”
“May this year bring you happiness, peace, and prosperity. Wishing you a joyous 2025!”
“Cheers to health, happiness, and success in the coming year. Happy New Year!”
“May your dreams come true and your days be filled with joy. Happy New Year!”
“Wishing you a fresh start with renewed energy and confidence throughout the New Year.”
“May the New Year bring you warmth, love, and light to guide your path to a positive destination.”
“Here’s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old. Cheers to the future!”
“May the New Year bless you with health, wealth, and happiness.”
“Wishing you a year full of blessings and filled with new adventures. Happy New Year!”
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