Ring in 2021 with 25 of the Best New Year’s Quotes

Each new year offers an exciting opportunity for a fresh start and new beginnings, which is probably why we all look forward to New Year’s Eve so much. No matter what your goals are for the coming year are or how many new year’s resolutions you plan on making for 2021, ringing in the start of a new year is a moment to acknowledge. One, to celebrate all of your experiences from 2020 (#pandemiclife); and two, to welcome the new year ahead.

Whether you plan on greeting 2021 with optimism, the perfect toast or a well-timed joke, these 100 best New Year quotes 2021 are just what you need to help you celebrate the start of a (hopefully) happy new year.

1. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

3. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma

4. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ―Josiyah Martin

6. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan

7. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley

8. “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt

9. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson

10. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

11. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein

12. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

13. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk

14. “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

15. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan

16. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent

17. “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.” —Neil Gaiman

18. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie

19. “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan

20. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

21. “Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson

22. “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

23. “On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” ―Akilnathan Logeswaran

24. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” ―Hillary DePiano

25. “The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” ―Mehmet Murat ildan