A new year is approaching, bringing with it fresh hope and new beginnings. It’s a magical time when we can pause, reflect on the past year, and look forward to what lies ahead. As we prepare to welcome 2026, let’s gather inspiration from some of the most motivational, funny, and famous New Year’s quotes.
Use these quotes to kickstart your year and share positive energy with your friends and family on social media like Instagram, group chats, and texts. Let’s make the most of the next 365 days and create the year we truly desire.
Famous New Year’s Quotes for Your Instagram
- “In our perfect ways, in the ways we are beautiful, in the ways we are human – we are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.” – Beyoncé
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
- “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.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
- “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
- “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie
- “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
Funny Famous New Year’s Quotes for Friends and Family
- “I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” – Anaïs Nin
- “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde
- “I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person.” – Stephen Colbert
- “New Year’s Eve is the only acceptable time to wear body glitter without being mistaken for a stripper.” – Chelsea Handler
- “New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” – James Agate
- “May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.” – Irish Blessing
- “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
- “A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” – Phil McGraw
- “Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.” – Joan Rivers
- “Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
Short and Famous New Year’s Quotes for Your Letter Board
- “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The best is yet to come.” – Frank Sinatra
- “Every end is a new beginning.” – Proverb
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Your life is a blank page. You are the author. Write an incredible story.” – Steve Maraboli
- “This is your year. Your time. Your season. Embrace it.” – Anna Davies
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart
- “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
Famous New Year’s Quotes on Reflection and a Happy 2026
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “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
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “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
- “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” – Mark Twain
- “In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.
Famous Motivational New Year’s Quotes for Success Next Year
- “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “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
- “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
- “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
- “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent
Let’s embrace the new year with open hearts and minds, ready to take on new challenges and opportunities. As we bid farewell to the past year, let’s reflect on the lessons learned and look forward to a bright future ahead. May 2026 be a year of growth, success, and happiness for all of us.
