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Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.
Sep 10, 2025
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
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.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Let each new year find you a better person.
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
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.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
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.
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!
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.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
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.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
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.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.