30 New Year’s Quotes to Help You Get Your Year Off to a Great Start

On New Year’s Eve, a lot of people like to think about what they’re going to do in the following year. They also like to make New Year’s resolutions that often get broken by the time January is out. If you don’t believe me, go to the gym in the first week of next year and then come back in March. It will be a lot less crowded in March.

So, let me make a small suggestion. Read these quotes BEFORE you make your resolutions this year. Commit them to memory. Let them sink into you and make some resolutions that will last you all year long.

At any point in time, we can change our lives, but it’s admittedly mentally easier to do it at the start of something “new.” That means tomorrow is going to be a phenomenal opportunity for you to change your life in ways great and small. Make the most of it!

1) "The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." -- Alfred Adler

2) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle

3) "The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it." -- Jordan Belfort

4) "Don’t go to the grave with life unused." -- Bobby Bowden

5) "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

6) "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." -- Francis Chan

7) "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

8) "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

9) "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." -- Ben Franklin

10) "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

11) "Some of our best intentions fail because we don’t have a system of execution. When it comes down to it, your new attitudes and behaviors must be incorporated into your monthly, weekly, and daily routines to affect any real, positive change. A routine is something you do every day without fail, so that eventually, like brushing your teeth or putting on your seatbelt, you do it without conscious thought." -- Darren Hardy

12) "You are never too old to reinvent yourself." -- Steve Harvey

13) "Evolution is the DNA of a continued existence. Those who don’t evolve become the subject of a ‘Whatever Happened To’ story." -- Paul Heyman

14) "Don’t wait. The time will never be just right." -- Napoleon Hill

15) "In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists." -- Eric Hoffer

16) "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." -- William James

17) "If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done." -- Thomas Jefferson

18) "If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

19) "A year from now you may wish you had started today." -- Karen Lamb

20) "Wait too long and life will pass you by. Don’t make the mistake of thinking everything will give you a second chance." -- Ed Latimore

21) "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life." -- Abraham Maslow

22) "You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." -- John Maxwell

23) "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." -- Dolly Parton

24) "Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent Peale

25) "The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life." -- Naval Ravikant

26) "Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life." -- Robin Sharma

27) "It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." -- Socrates

28) "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -- Henry David Thoreau

29) "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did." -- Mark Twain

30) "Most of us aren't defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be." -- Jocko Willink

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