65 Inspirational New Year Resolution Quotes and Sayings

New year resolutions feel exciting because they give you direction.

They help you decide what to improve and what to leave behind.

But sticking to them takes effort.

It takes honesty patience and small consistent steps.

These new year resolution quotes remind you that growth is possible when you stay committed and believe in your progress.

Inspirational New Year Resolution Quotes

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

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

New Year Resolution Quotes

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” — Oscar Wilde

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” — Rumi

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” — Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Les Brown

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” — Brian Tracy

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews“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

“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

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

“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction.” — Jim Rohn

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

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

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

“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

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has

passed.” — Cavett Robert

“Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle

“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” — Cyril Cusack

“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” — James Agate

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.” — John Selden

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” — 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

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

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

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

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

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

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes… you’re Doing Something.” — Neil Gaiman

“We spend January 1 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

“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb

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

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James

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

“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” — Steve Harvey

“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma

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

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

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins

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

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” — L.M. Montgomery

“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

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” — Lewis Carroll

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” — Jonathan Edwards

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