New Years Day Quotes by Ellen Goodman, Orison Swett Marden, William Arthur Ward, Helen Fielding, Charles Lamb, Alfred Lord Tennyson and many others.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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!
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
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.
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.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
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.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
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.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
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.