Top 40 New Year Quotes

Words matter. These are the best New Year Quotes from famous people such as Bob Casey, Jr., Michael Dirda, Benjamin Franklin, Alice Roberts, Toby Alderweireld, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You always want to be open to possibilities in the new

You always want to be open to possibilities in the new year.
Bob Casey, Jr.
For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.
Michael Dirda
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin
Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the Kalendae Januariae, at the start of January – both were celebrated with parties and the exchange of gifts.
Alice Roberts
Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.
Toby Alderweireld
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
The new year 2015 will be a year of great significance, in which we will mark the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
Kim Jong-un
I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.
Monty Don
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Rainer Maria Rilke
My cameo appearance in ‘Happy New Year’ doesn’t mean I am seriously considering a shift to cinema, not at all.
Kiku Sharda
May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
Graham Nelson
I choose to lead an eco-friendly life as a New Year resolution. Global Warming is a reality. It has to be collective effort.
Rashami Desai
I love London in the rare parts of the year when it’s quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.
John Lanchester
I enjoy the New Year best by performing in front of a huge crowd.
Mahima Chaudhry
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas.’
Elif Batuman
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
With the new year comes a refueled motivation to improve on the past one.
Gretchen Bleiler
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash
When it comes to the New Year, I make it a point to catch my mum and dad awake before the clock strikes 12. Then, I celebrate the night with friends.
Amy Jackson
In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.
Paula Deen
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
Cyril Cusack
It’s always exciting to get back out there with the teammates and start a new year and get on the field.
Julian Edelman
If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting Rosh Hashana as your own.
Bari Weiss
I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it’s because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn’t want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.
Deepika Padukone
The only place I do avoid is Trafalgar Square on New Year’s Eve. I saw in the New Year there once – it was the most terrifying experience of my life.
Arlene Phillips
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
John Breaux
I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don’t wait until the New Year.
Georgina Bloomberg
The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.
John Niven
I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’s very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.
Debbie Harry
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.
Melody Beattie
When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up unt

When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would run to the front door and open it, welcoming the New Year air. This is the kind of entertainment you make in poor families, and cry to your therapist about when you’re rich.
Sara Pascoe
A part of ‘Happy New Year’ is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the ’80s.
Farah Khan
Each year is a new year.
Tim Buckley
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
George William Curtis
I don’t like to think of goals I set at the new year as resolutions. I like to think of them as summits on my personal mountain. Each year gets me closer to the dreams I want to achieve, and the goals are those benches to sit and enjoy the view along the way.
Stephanie Land
I never want to say that I had glory days. I like to think that every new year there’s something great that can happen, something great will happen, whether it’s a basketball thing or an off-the-court thing.
Maya Moore
Come to think of it, some of the most special films in my career were ‘City Of Life’ and ‘Happy New Year.’ For both these films, I stayed over a month in Dubai and just when I was thinking that I need one more film like that, that’s when ‘Kung Fu Yoga’ happened.
Sonu Sood
I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
Brittany Murphy
Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I’ve come and what’s changed.
Laurel Van Ness