Happy new year quotes
Feeling a bit tongued and need help formulating your New Year’s Day wish? Not to worry; feel free to draw inspiration from these motivational quotes:
“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
“The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn.” - Hartley Coleridge
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” - John Burroughs
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
Choose the appropriate quote for the person, who you have in mind and package it in a greeting card or postcard for the New Year.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) - New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) - Never tell your resolution, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
John Selden (1584-1654) - The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
Edward Payson Powell (1833-1915) - Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier'...
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) - Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott (1771-1832) - Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) - Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas. A. Edison (1847-1931) - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) - Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) - Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) - Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) - I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) - The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius (551-479 v.Chr.) - Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) - If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) - If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola (1840-1902) - Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) - We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder (1744-1803) - And all may do what has by man been done.
Edward Young (1683-1765) - Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire (1694-1778) - No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Proctor (1825-1864) - Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague (1795-1876) - In doubtful matters boldness is everything.
Publilius Syrus (1. Jhd. v. Chr.) - Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) - Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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