New Year Quotes

Each new year offers an exciting opportunity for a fresh start and new beginnings, which is probably why we all look forward to New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day so much. No matter what your goals are for the coming year or how many New Year’s resolutions you plan on making for 2024, ringing in the start of a new year is a moment to acknowledge. One, to celebrate all of your experiences from 2023, and two, to welcome the new year ahead.

Every new year brings with it a chance for a fresh start and the promise of new beginnings. This anticipation is precisely why we eagerly await the arrival of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Regardless of the specific goals you've set for the upcoming year or the number of resolutions you intend to make for 2024, the start of a new year is a moment deserving of recognition. It's an occasion to both commemorate the lessons and joys of 2023 and embrace the opportunities that the new year holds.

Whether you're gearing up to welcome 2024 with a positive outlook, a heartfelt toast, or a well-timed joke, these 100 top New Year quotes for 2024 are just the inspiration you need to enhance the celebration of the commencement of a happy new year.

95+ Best New Year Quotes

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

“Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” —David McCullough Jr.

“With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.”―Holly Black

“Life is about change; sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt

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

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." —Maya Angelou

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

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

“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

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan

“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”—Steven Spielberg

“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

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

“May the coming year bring you closer to your passions and farther from your doubts.”

“Wishing you and yours some well-deserved downtime and a very happy new year to come.”

“Here's to making more cherished memories in 2024!”

“In this extraordinary year, your extraordinary friendship has been a blessing. Thank you, and here's to new beginnings!”

“May all your wildest dreams manifest in 2024. You got this!”

“Here’s to another year of making memories with you, my cherished friend. Happy New Year!”

“Facing the new year, I'm confident that with you by my side, I'll conquer all my goals. Happy New Year to my forever love!”

"I’m so proud of all your accomplishments this year — and I just can’t wait to see what you do in the next.”

“Wishing you the best year yet! You deserve it!”

“Every year with you is the best one yet... cheers to many more.”

“Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita

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

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent

“You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.” ―Hillary DePiano

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

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

“If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coehlo

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” —Mandy Hale

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

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” —Karen Kaiser Clark

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” —Francis Bacon Sr.

“It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

“Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.” —Joanne Raptis

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

“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” —Unknown

“We joyfully pray with grateful hearts to welcome blessings in the New Year.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita

“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” —Mike Dooley

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

“We are the authors of our destinies.” ―Nike Campbell-Fatoki

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

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

“Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.” —Melody Beattie

“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.”―Craig D. Lounsbrough

“This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!” —William Arthur Ward

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." —Arthur Rubenstein

“The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change, we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult, however, to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page.” ― R. Joseph Hoffmann

“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

“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.” —Richelle E. Goodrich

"We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” —Hillary DePiano

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” —Joseph Campbell

“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

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

“Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” —Unknown

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings

"I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” —Nick Frederickson

“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” —Shauna Niequist

“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” —Emilie Coue

“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” —Frank Scully

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

"This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun." —Taylor Duvall

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." —David Bowie

“A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.”―Anusha Atukorala

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” —Albert Einstein

“New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” —Auliq Ice

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” —Neil Gaiman

"Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day." —Michael Josephson

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right." —F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” —Göran Persson

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.” —Eckhart Tolle

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." —Arthur Rubenstein

“A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” —Phil McGraw

"Be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Gandhi

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” —Joey Adams

"Remove 'shoulds' from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now." —Kelly Martin

"Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” —Alex Morritt

“When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” ―Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

“As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection – a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.” ―Peggy Toney Horton

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift

“Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita

"He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool." —F.M. Knowles

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

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