As the clock ticks toward midnight on December 31, 2025, many of us reflect on the past year and look forward to new beginnings. Short inspirational New Year quotes can provide that spark of motivation to set goals, embrace change, and step into 2026 with renewed energy. Whether you're jotting them down in a journal or sharing them on social media, these quotes remind us that every new year is an opportunity for growth.
Top 100 Short Inspirational New Year Quotes
Here are 100 short inspirational New Year quotes to inspire you:
- “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin
- “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” — Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (translation: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”)
- “Everything that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.” — William Shakespeare
- “Time takes all and gives all.” — Giordano Bruno
- “Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
- “We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” — Hillary DePiano
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” — Alex Morritt
- “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’...” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring.” — A.G. Howard
- “Don’t wait until February to start living in January.” — Anthony T. Hincks
- “Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.” — Samuel Johnson
- “Growth is the only evidence of life.” — John Henry Newman
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?” — Ann Patchett, “The Dutch House”
- “Forever — is composed of Nows — / ‘Tis not a different time — / Except for Infiniteness — / And Latitude of Home —” — Emily Dickinson
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” — Joey Adams
- “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
- “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 Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” — Jay Leno
- “New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” — James Agate
- “Life is just a bowl of cherries, / Don’t take it too serious; it’s too mysterious.” — Lew Brown
- “No, Thursday’s out. How about never — is never good for you?” — Bob Mankoff
- “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” — Alex Morritt
- “Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” — Mark Twain
- “New year, old you.” — A.D. Aliwat
- “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” — Karen Kaiser Clark
- “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” — L.M. Montgomery
- “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” — Stewart Stafford
- “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
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
- “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” — Yogi Berra
- “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” — Billie Jean King
- “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” — Robert Browning
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
- “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney
- “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” — Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
- “A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” — Joyce Meyer
- “We choose to go to the moon.” — President John F. Kennedy
- “The time to make your mind up about people, is never.” — Philip Barry
- “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn’t like it, and changed.” — David Sedaris
- “Let us begin. Let us restore the Earth. Let the mountains talk, and the rivers run.” — David Brower
- “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” — Orison Swett Marden
- “There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley
- “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson
- “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
- “Don’t take the new year too seriously. The only thing you should do is welcome her and send her away.” — Ljupka Cvetanova
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” — Charles Kettering
- “You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
- “March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “Everything nourishes what is strong already.” — Jane Austen
- “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life” — Eckhart Tolle
- “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux
- “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
- “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono
- “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” — William Blake
- “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” — Terri Guillemets
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
- “Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.” — Katherine May
- “Lean in.” — Sheryl Sandberg
- “Where can we live but days?” — Philip Larkin
- “And that’s the way it is.” — Walter Cronkite
- “No horizon is so far that you cannot get above or beyond it.” — Beryl Markham
- “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.” — Norman Maclean
- “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
- “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” — Charles Lamb
- “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
- “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley
- “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “It is a mere exchange of calendars. If you are not new, It is not new.” — Seun Ayilara
- “Your new start is only as far away as your fear has parked it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” — Samuel Beckett
- “The beginning is always today.” — Mary Shelley
- “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” — Richie Norton
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
- “Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “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 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
- “The ticking clock of the New Year reminds us: time is not to be spent, but invested wisely in purpose and meaning.” — Aloo Denish Obiero
- “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “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 be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” — Anne Lamott
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
- “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Jung
- “Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens
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