New Years Day Quotes

New Years Day Quotes by Ellen Goodman, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Charles Lamb, Henry Ward Beecher, Mark Twain, Orison Swett Marden and many others.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by

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
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
Charles Lamb
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
Henry Ward Beecher
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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Ellen Goodman
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
William Arthur Ward
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
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
Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.
Ben Affleck
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
Mark Twain
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.
Henry Moore
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Charles Lamb
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering