Sayings about New Year
Plan your life at New Year’s eve, your day at dawn. ~ Japanese Proverb
What the New Year will bring us depends a great deal on what we bring to the New Year. ~ Saying
A day to come seems longer than a year that’s gone. ~ Scottish Proverb
The harvest of a whole year depends on what you sow in the springtime. ~ Chinese Proverb
The weasel comes to say “Happy New Year!” to the chickens. ~ Chinese Proverb
Plan your year in the spring, your day at dawn. ~ Chinese Proverb
Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year. ~ Chinese Proverb
When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~ Chinese Proverb
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. ~ Michael Josephson
Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities. ~ Michael Josephson
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. ~ Anaïs Nin
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. ~ Author Unknown
A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one yearvand out the other. ~ Author Unknown
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. ~ Joey Adams
A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~ Author Unknown
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. ~ William Thomas
God bless your Christmas Season with happy days of cheer. God keep His richest favors and all His blessings near. God grant you after Christmas a bright and blessed New Year. ~ Author Unknown
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. ~ John Selden
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~ John Burroughs
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~ Charles Lamb
We spend January 1 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
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years. ~ Henry Moore
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~ Andre Gide
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ~ Sir Walter Scott
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since. ~ Dave Beard
New Year, same goal. ~ Joe King
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. ~ Cyril Cusack
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~ Bill Vaughn
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~ Charles Lamb
New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~ Jay Leno
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. ~ Mark Twain
The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~ George William Curtis
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. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~ G.K. Chesterton
A n optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~ Bill Vaughan
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
I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Year’s resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right? ~ Catherine O’Hara
My New Year’s resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. ~ James Lafferty
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~ Oprah Winfrey
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ~ Marcel Proust
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ~ Curtis Carlson
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. ~ Jean Paul Richter
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~ Thomas Mann
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~ Oscar Wilde
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool. ~ F.M. Knowles
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want. ~ Irish Toast
