49 Quotes About New Year’s Resolutions

Many people fail at achieving their New Year’s Resolutions year after year. Finding a way to be more focused on achieving small goals by taking small steps will increase your long term success. These quotes about New Year’s Resolutions capture the significant amount of action that is needed to succeed at your New Year goal.

“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.”

“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”

“A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.”

“All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.”

“All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”

“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”

“As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happenings of the past year and ask for direction and guidance in the new one.”

“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”

“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.”

“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.”

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.”

“Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.”

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”

“I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don’t know?”

“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”

“I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.”

“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.”

“If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.”

“In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!”

“In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray.”

“I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve.”

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come.”

“Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since”

“My New Year’s resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.”

“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”

“People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year’s resolution to a lifestyle.”

“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.”

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.”

“Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.”

“To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.”

“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

Before making a New Year Resolution, you should first understand the situation and significance of the world around you and how it will positively or negatively impact your ability to fulfill your resolution.