151 New Year Quotes, Wishes, Messages & Greetings

As we leave one more year behind and roll into the 2024; it’s time to get inspired, make new year resolutions and to be more optimistic in new year. A time to look back and remind  yourself that even though you didn’t succeed enough in the past year, there is much more to achieve in life and new possibilities will surely come your way in the next 365 days throughout the year. To inspire you for a great year ahead, we have curated the best new year quotes, new year wishes, greetings and messages.

These new year quotes are also perfect to send out to your friends and family to wish them a happy and prosperous New Year 2024.

New Year Quotes

1. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” ~ John R. Dallas Jr.

2. “On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” ~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

3. “Cheers to the new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

4. “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

5. “A new morning, a new day, a new month and a New Year; this is the time to learn from previous year’s mistakes. Time to unlearn to learn new things.” ~ Invajy

6. “We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” ~ Hillary DePiano

7. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” ~ Buddha

8. “Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.” ~ Joanne Raptis
9. “Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” ~ Alex Morritt
10. “Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” ~ Anonymous

Happy New Year Quotes

11. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” ~ Neil Gaiman
12. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ~ C.S. Lewis
13. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” ~ Taylor Swift
14. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” ~ Albert Einstein
15. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ~ Germany Kent
16. “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
17. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~  C.S. Lewis
18. “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.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
19. “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
20. “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.

New Year Wishes

21. “We are the authors of our destinies.” ~ Nike Campbell-Fatoki
22. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” ~ Melody Beattie
23. “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” ~ William E. Vaughan
24. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” ~ David McCullough Jr.
25. “With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.”~ Holly Black
26. “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
27. “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark; it’s midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!” ~ Ogden Nash
28. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” ~ T.S. Eliot
29. “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”~ Steven Spielberg
30. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ~ Paulo Coehlo

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Happy New Year Messages

31. “We joyfully pray with grateful heart’s to welcome blessings in New Year.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
32. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” ~ Charles Lamb
33. “And now we welcome the New Year. Full of things that have never been.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
34. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” ~ Nido Qubein
35. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous New Year by believing.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
36. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ~ Seneca
37. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” ~ David Bowie
38. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi (Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi)
39. “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
40. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ~ Plato

Happy New Year 2024 Quotes

41. “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” ~ Anne Frank
42. ”And now let us welcome the New Year, full of things that never were.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
43. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” ~ Robin Sharma
44. “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
45. “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” ~ F.M. Knowles
46. “What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” ~ Vern McLellan
47. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” ~ Phil McGraw
49. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
50. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” ~ Kristin Kreuk

New Year’s Resolution Quotes

51. “My new year resolution is not to break my resolutions.” ~ Invajy
52. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
53. “If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” ~ Cyril Cusack
54. “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
55. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
56. “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” ~ Dave Beard
57. “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” ~ Cavett Rober
58. “One resolution I have made and try always to keep is this: To rise above the little things.” ~ John Burroughs
59. “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” ~ Oscar Wilde
60. “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

Funny New Year Quotes

61. “Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average…which means, you have met your New Year’s resolution.” ~ Anonymous
62. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” ~ Joey Adams
63. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce
64. “My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.” ~ Nia Vardalos
65. “A cat’s New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don’t be like a cat; in your New Year dream something that you have never dreamed. Target for new things.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
66. “My New Year’s resolution is to stop hanging out with people who ask me about my New Year’s resolutions.” ~ Anonymous
67. “It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.” ~ William Thomas
68. “I think I made too many New Year’s resolutions this year. It took me almost a full day to break them all.” ~ Anonymous
69. “My New year’s resolution is to be a better person. I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person.” ~ Invajy
70. “Sorry for all the annoying behavior I did through the year. May you give me another chance to do that in the next New Year!” ~ Anonymous

Inspirational New Year Quotes

71. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
72. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
73. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
74. “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
75. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” ~ Joseph Campbell
76. “This cannot be the year of talking. Of wishing. Of wanting. This has to be the year, you get it done!” ~ Eric Thomas
77. “Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have 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
78. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates
79. “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” ~ Steve Harvey
80. “Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” ~ Anonymous

Quotes for New Year

81. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
82. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” ~ Hillary DePiano
83. “The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
84. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” ~ Mandy Hale
85. “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” ~ Karen Kaiser Clark
86. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
87. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings
88. “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” ~ Emilie Coue
89. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” ~ Shauna Niequist
90. “This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” ~ Taylor Duvall

New Year Wishes 2024

91. “Wishing you a happy New Year! May it be filled with new adventures and good fortunes.”
92. “I’m grateful for all the memories we’ve created this year and the ones we’ll make in the new year.”
93. “Praying that you have a truly remarkable and blissful year ahead! Happy new year to you and your family!”
94. “If I had three wishes to make; I would wish to be with you always, to love you always and to have your heart always. Happy New Year!”
95. “May the 12 months of the New Year be full of new achievements for you. May the days be filled with eternal happiness for you and your family! Happy New Year!”
96. “I knew I could make it through everything I faced this year because of you. Thank you for your amazing friendship! Happy New Year!”
97. “I wish that your next 8760 hours will be full of mindfulness, happiness and success. Happy New Year!!”
98. “Nights will be dark but days will be light, wish your life to be always bright Happy New Year.”
99. “Beyond the darkness, there is a silver lining. Hang on to the hope till the end to see brightness. Happy New Year.”
100. “Wave a goodbye to the old and embrace the new with full of hope, dream and ambition. Wishing you a happy new year full of happiness.”

New Year Greetings

101. “A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.”~ Anusha Atukorala
102. “New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” ~ Auliq Ice
103. ”Celebrate what you want to see more of.” ~ Tom Peters
104. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” ~ G. K. Chesterton
105. “Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
106. “Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” ~ Frank Scully
107. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James
108. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
109. “As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection – a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.” ~ Peggy Toney Horton
110. “When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Best New Year Quotes

111. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Altshuler
112. “The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.” ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
113. “The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult, however, to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page.” ~ R. Joseph Hoffmann
114. “The beginning is always today.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
115. “Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” ~ Kelly Martin
116. “The beginning of every New Year is always the best time to give another chance to your neglected talents!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
117. “Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” ~ Michael Josephson
118. “There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.” ~ Jason Soroski
119. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
120. “Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” ~ Mike Dooley

Happy New Year Quotes

121. “The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” ~ J. O’Rourke
122. “A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding…and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”~ C.J. Cherryh
123. “Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
124. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” ~ J.P. Morgan
125. “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
126. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” ~  S. Eliot
127. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” ~ Brad Paisley
128. “New year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” ~ Alex Morritt
129. “It’s a new year; start a fresh journey with new resolutions. The best is waiting for you.” ~ Invajy
130. “Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.” ~ Charlotte Eriksson

New Year 2024 Quotes

131. “I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” ~ Henry Moore
132. “Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
133. “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.” ~ Brooks Atkinson
134. “Life is a progress, and not a station.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
135. “We do not remember days, we remember moments”~ Cesare Pavese

New Year 2024 Captions for Instagram

136. Downloading….New Year
137. Bye Bye COVID Year.
138. New Year, new beginning.
139. Time to make and break new year resolutions.
140. 365 Days to a better you.
141. The final countdown begins … welcome new year
142. Good Morning “New Year”!
143. New Year, New You, New me.
144. Cheers to the new year!
145. Page 1 of 365!
146. See you next year guyz!
147. Out with the old, in with the new.
148. I’m still the same person I was last year, just hungover.
149. New year, same office.
150. Less bitter, more glitter.
151. New book, 12 new chapters, 365 pages.

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