Ready or not, 2025 is right around the corner! Find inspiration and positive vibes with these New Year quotes.
It’s hard to believe we’ll be wrapping up 2024 and welcoming 2025 very soon. With the new year, there are opportunities for a fresh start.
I always like to reflect on the past year and find all the reasons I’m grateful. This brings me joy to see how far I’ve come in the past 365 days.
At the same time, a new year brings excitement for new adventures and opportunities for growth.
Quotes are one way to reflect on the old and the new.
You can use these quotes to look back on the year ending to find reasons to be thankful. And also look forward to the incoming year and the possibilities that lie ahead.
Whether you’re looking to crush your goals, find love, work on your personal development or just continue to feel happiness in 2025, these quotes will motivate and inspire.
New Year Quotes for Positive Wishes
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -Oprah Winfrey
“Cheers to a happy, healthy New Year!” -Unknown
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“May 2025 bring you health, wealth and happiness!” -Unknown
“The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.” -Richard L. Evans
“Happy New Year! I hope 2025 brings you all the love, joy and happiness you deserve.” -Unknown
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -Les Brown
“Out with the old, in with the new. Happy New Year!” -Unknown
“Cheers to a new year and new opportunities!” -Unknown
“New year, new possibilities! May 2025 be your best year yet.” -Unknown
Short New Year quotes
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” -Tom Peters
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” -Criss Jami
“Last year told you what you needed to know. This year is go time!” -Richie Norton
“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.” -Henry Moore
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
“You can’t escape the old year without starting a new year.” -Anthony T. Hincks
“I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve.” -Debbie Harry
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” -Charles Lamb
“New Year is a new time in life to seek new adventures.” -Lailah Gifty Akita
“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” Walter Scott
“Why wait until New Year’s to create a new you?” -Jen Selinsky
Inspirational New Year Quotes
“Everytime you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” -Charles Kettering
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” -John R. Dallas Jr.
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 day book. Write a good one.” -Brad Paisley
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, “It will be happier.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” -Edith Lovejoy Pierce
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” -Benjamin Franklin
“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” -Helen Keller
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
“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.” -Goran Persson
New Year, New Beginning Quotes
“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
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” -T.S. Elliot
“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” -Cavett Robert
“No brooding over old worries, let’s start a new series. Forget about all the negativities, think of new possibilities. Here to conquering a new frontier, that’s all I wish in the upcoming new year.” -Shon Mehta, The Timingila
“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
“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.” -Neil Gaiman
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” -Susan Sontag
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” -Alex Morritt
“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to 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.” -Melody Beattie
Funny Hilarious New Year Quotes
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” -James Agate
“You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” -Charlie Brown
“I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.” -Unknown
“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!” -Aleister Crowley
“I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Year’s resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ‘til December, right? -Catherine O’Hara
“Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s Resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!” -D.S. Mixell
“My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.” -Nia Vardalos
“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
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” -F.M. Knowles
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” -Joey Adams
“Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” -Bill Vaughan
New Year Quotes for Instagram
“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, Confessions of a Wallflower
“I promise that this year too, I won’t let you do stupid things alone.” -Unknown
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” -Albert Einstein
“New Year, New opportunities.” -Lailah Gifty Akita
“Remember when we were young and wanted to stay up for New Year’s? Now we are old and all we want to do is sleep.” -Unknown
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” -Francis Bacon Sr.
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” -Pablo Picasso
“I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.” -Robert Paul
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.” -Phyllis McGinley
New Year Quotes for Myself
“All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.” -Steven Spielberg
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
“We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we’re happier and healthier.” -Ellen DeGeneres
“What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!” -Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Approach the new year with resolve to find opportunities hidden in each new day.” -Michael Josephson
“As the New Year dawns, let your genius not be just a spark but a relentless flame, igniting paths unseen and potential untapped.” -Dr. Tracey Bond
“Life is not about expecting, hoping and wishing; it’s about doing, being and becoming.” -Mike Dooley
“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” -Cyril Cusack
“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.” -Ellen Goodman
“Each new year presents a yet unshaped time for us to become greater or lesser versions of our current selves. May yours be a great one.” -C.A.A. Savastano
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” -J.P. Morgan
New Year Quotes for love
“Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year—the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.” -Peggy Toney Horton
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” -Ingrid Bergman
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” -Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” -Henry Van Dyke
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” -William W. Purkey
“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.” -Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
“Where there is love there is life.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” -Tom Bodett
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” -Audrey Hepburn
Final Thoughts
As we prepare for 2025, it’s the perfect time to reflect, reset and set new intentions.
I hope the quotes shared here provide some inspiration, laughs and insight into your feelings for the new year.
While the past year may have brought challenges, it has also given you lessons, growth, and countless reasons to be proud. Now, think of the new year as an opportunity to help you write your next chapter.
Embrace this moment as a fresh start and allow yourself to be open to change and transformation in 2025. Whether you’re aiming for personal growth, professional success, or simply more joy in everyday moments, remember that the journey starts with believing in yourself.
The road ahead might be full of surprises, but with the right mindset and a positive outlook, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.
So take a deep breath, step forward with confidence, and make this year your best yet.
I hope these quotes provide the encouragement and inspiration you need to make 2025 a year of happiness, success and fulfillment. Here’s to the new adventures awaiting you!