It's that time of the year! Your entire Instagram might be flooded with feel-good images and optimistic captions. As Jonathan Lockwood Huie said, “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
As 31st December draws near, it's essential that you explore some quotes for reflection, excitement and hope. These quotes are tokens of celebrations, experiences and anticipations. So, let's celebrate all of the experiences from 2024; and also welcome the new year ahead.
Why wait until midnight? Send an advance happy new year message to show you care
The Significance of New Year Wishes
A new year wish is more than just a simple greeting; it’s a way to express your hopes, share positivity, and strengthen bonds. Whether it’s a formal year-end message to colleagues or a heartfelt note to loved ones, these wishes create a sense of togetherness and optimism.
Inspirational New Year Wishes & Quotes
What does 31st December teach us? It reflects upon the idea that all bad things come to an end and that there's always a chance for a fresh start. What better way to start the year than to get inspired from 'Happy new year' quotes!
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” –Emilie Coue
“The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”–Joseph Campbell
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” -Vern McLellan
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” - C.S. Lewis
“Remove 'shoulds' from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.”- Kelly Martin
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” - Arthur Rubenstein
“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings.” - Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.”- Michael Josephson
"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written." – Melody Beattie
"What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year." – Vern McLellan
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis
"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
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." – Plato
"Every moment is a fresh beginning." – T.S. Eliot
"New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday." – Charles Lamb
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." – Nido Qubein
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" – Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotes from Famous Personalities
New year wishes for new beginnings will remain incomplete if there's no mention of words of wisdom by famous personalities who encourage us to approach the year ahead with optimism and determination.
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."- Oprah Winfrey
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."- Albert Einstein
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."- Brad Paisley
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."- C.S. Lewis
"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
"All things are ready, if our minds are."- William Shakespeare:
"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."- Neil Gaiman
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."- Maya Angelou
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better person."- Benjamin Franklin
“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”- Hellen Keller
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“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
“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
“You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.” ―Hillary DePiano
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”—Steven Spielberg
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.” —Anne Frank
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” —Oscar Wilde
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself." —Steve Harvey
Looking for celebration quotes for your Instagram picture? Fill it with reflection of your past year and manifestation of the year that lies ahead.
"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
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." – Michael Altshuler
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Søren Kierkegaard
"One resolution I have made, and always try to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." – John Burroughs
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." – William Shakespeare
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better person." – Benjamin Franklin
"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
"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice." – T.S. Eliot
"Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing." – Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year." – John R. Dallas Jr.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu
"Your journey is not defined by the past year's footsteps, but by the path you choose in the new year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The past year's experiences are the ink with which you write the story of the year ahead." - Henry Ford
"As you close the door on the past year, remember that every ending is a new beginning." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The past year is a mirror reflecting the journey you've taken; let it guide your steps in the new year." - Oprah Winfrey
"In the book of life, the past year's chapters are filled with both tears and triumphs, but the story is far from over." - Jack Canfield
"As you reflect on the past year, remember that you are the author of your own destiny, and the best is yet to come." - Brad Paisley
"The past year's pages may be written, but the story of the new year is yours to create." - Melody Beattie
"The past year's trials were the seeds of resilience that will bloom in the garden of the new year." - Steve Maraboli
"The past year is a canvas painted with memories; the new year, a blank one awaiting your masterpiece." - Zig Ziglar
Another way to reflect is through journaling. You reflect, understand what could have been better which makes you consciously ready for the next time. So, pick up your phone and start jotting down your thoughts with Level SuperMind'sdiary. Set intentions, create a to-do list, show gratitude, do a 2023 recap and create your vision for 2025!
What better way to start the new year is than through some sort of motivation? These quotes will help you stay motivated in order to create goals for 2025 which is the first step in working towards what you want to achieve.
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy." – Norman Vincent Peale
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." – Bo Jackson
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." – Thomas Jefferson
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"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
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." - Chris Grosser
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Your time is now. Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill
"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the obstacles you overcome." - Booker T. Washington
"Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
Romantic New Year Quotes for Love
It's never too late to shower love on your loved ones. Take this moment to show love and gratitude to your loved ones as a part of happy new year quotes!
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting."- George Eliot
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."- Helen Keller
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."- Audrey Hepburn
"There's only one thing more precious than our time and that's who we spend it on."- Leo Christopher
"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."- Friedrich Nietzsche:
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."- Maya Angelou
"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever."- A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
"You are, and always have been, my dream."- Nicholas Sparks
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."- Victor Hugo
"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change." – Taylor Swift
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Love is not something you find. Love is something that finds you." – Loretta Young
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Walter Winchell
"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." – Hubert H. Humphre
"Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." – Tennessee Williams