
2020, thankfully, is in the books. It’s been an incredibly difficult year that most of us can’t wait to put behind us. And, while January 1, 2021, won’t be all that much different, a new year means a clean slate.
While things are challenging right now, let’s hope that the upcoming year will be better than the last. Not to be patronizing, but the darkest hour is just before dawn. And, to help you look forward to a healthier, happier, and more productive 2021, here are 101 quotes to welcome in the new year.
1. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
2. “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
3. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Huie
4. “The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
5. “You are never too to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
6. “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
7. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
8. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
9. “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” — Dr. Seuss
10. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
12. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” — Hillary DePiano
13. “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” — Catherine Pulsifer
14. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” — Germany Kent
15. “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” — John Burroughs
16. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better person.” — Benjamin Franklin
17. “In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude, and be passionate about your dreams.” — Bamigboye Olurotimi
18. “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
19. “Life’s not about expecting, hoping, and wishing, it’s about doing, being, and becoming.” — Mike Dooley
20. “New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of the future.” — Munia Khan
21. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” — Joey Adams
22. “Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.” — Avina Celeste
23. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coehlo
24. “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
25. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
26. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
27. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
28. “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
29. “This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” — Taylor Duvall
30. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” — Abraham Lincoln
31. “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
32. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” — Tony Robbins
33. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale
34. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan
35. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.” — Charles Kettering
36. “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Breault
37. “Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.” — Unknown
38. “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” — Anne Frank
39. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates
40. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous New Year by believing.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
41. “Don’t ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!” — Phil Wohl
42. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
43. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” — John R. Dallas Jr.
44. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
45. “Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So, let’s just wish each other a New Year.” — Judith Crist
46. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
47. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King
48. “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
49. “You will never win if you never begin.” — Helen Rowland
50. “A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back—you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.” — Jodi Picoult
51. “Today, I close the door to the past, open the door to the future, take a deep breath, step on through, and start a new chapter in my life.” — Anon
52. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
53. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘it will be happier.’” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
54. “What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”– Goethe (Faust)
55. “New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provide this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” — James Agate
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Abby Miller
Student at UC Berkeley, currently working on a degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Sciences and Business Administration. Experienced in CSX, productivity management, and chatbot implementation.