As we stand at the threshold of a new year, it is a time for reflection and contemplation. Looking back on the past year, we can learn valuable lessons and insights that will guide us as we journey into the year ahead. What are your dreams and goals for the coming year? How will you use this blank canvas of time to create a fulfilling and meaningful 2026?
To help you navigate these questions and embark on a successful and positive 2026, here are 101 short New Year quotes that are motivational, uplifting, funny, and meaningful. These quotes are designed to inspire and empower you as you embark on a new chapter in your life.
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“This is your year. Your time. Your season. Embrace it.” – Anna Davies
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie
“Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” – Nick Frederickso
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.” – Joan Rivers
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma
“Life is a series of new beginnings. Embrace each one with courage.” – Roy T. Bennett
“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
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” – James Agate
“Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.” – Unknown
“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” – Mark Twain
“A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” – Phil McGraw
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb
“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
“My new year’s resolution is to be more optimistic by keeping my cup half-full with either rum, vodka, or whiskey.” – Bill Murray
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” – Joey Adams
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” – Hillary DePiano
“I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person.” – Unknown
“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” – Henry Moore
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – Bill Vaughan
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde
“Every year I make a resolution to change myself; this year I’m making a resolution to be myself!” – Unknown
“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions.” – Mark Twain
“My New Year’s resolution is to stop lying to myself about making lifestyle changes. Maybe I can do it this time.” – Unknown
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
“Courage starts with showing up and letting yourself be seen.” – BrenĂ© Brown
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.” – Earl Nightingale
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” – Simone Biles
“In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate with your dreams.” – Bamigboye Olurotimi
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
“The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.” – W.E.B. Du Bois
“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” – Cavett Robert
“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
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“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
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“Strength shows not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Every new year is a new beginning, a chance to start fresh and write a beautiful story with your life.” – Elsie Green
“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.” – BeyoncĂ©
“Let this year be the year of growth, courage and endless possibilities.” – Brittany Burgunder
“I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.” – Juansen Dizon
“Remove shoulds from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” – Kelly Martin
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” – Steven Spielberg
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
“New year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” – Alex Morritt
“In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step.” – Naeem Callaway
“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
“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” – Kristin Kreuk
“Your life is a blank page. You are the author. Write an incredible story.” – Steve Maraboli
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
For more inspiration for your New Year’s celebration and for a successful 2026, explore these quotes and let them guide you on your journey to a brighter and more fulfilling year ahead.
