Happy New Year Quotes and Pics

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,French-Cuban AuthorGood resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

— Oscar Wilde,Irish Writer & PoetFrom New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.”

— Leonard Bernstein,

American Conductor, Composer, AuthorAn optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

— Bill Vaughn,

American Columnist & AuthorNew Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”

— Mark Twain,

American Author & Humorist

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.”
— Brooks Atkinson,
American Theatre Critic

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things.”

— John Burroughs,

American Naturalist & EssayistWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson,

American Essayist, Lecturer & PoetThe bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”

— Michael Altshuler,

Speaker & Trainer Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”

— John Selden,

English Jurist

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,
American Author & Journalist

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.”
— F.M. Knowles,
American Artist

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.”

— Henry Moore,

English Sculptor & ArtistMay all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!”

— Joey Adams,

American Comedian

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!
— William Arthur Ward,
American Writer & Author

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
— P.J. O’Rourke,
American Political Satirist

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,
American Poet & Pacifist

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,
American Journalist