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You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.
Sep 10, 2025
I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.
My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.
One of my New Year's resolutions was to interact more with people. That sounds quite technical, but literally face time. Not FaceTime, because that's a thing now, but to be in the room with someone. To turn your phone off. To sit and have dinner and just be there with somebody.
Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them.
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.
People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.
I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.
I don't want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year's resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I'm trying.
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. "I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
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.
A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year Dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things.
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.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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.
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.
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.
The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.