13 Quotes About the New Year

The Holidays aren't over yet, so we still have reason to celebrate. Here are some of our favorite quotes about the New Year.


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

The merry year is born, Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.  ~Hartley Coleridge

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde

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

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~Dave Beard

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ~William Thomas

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

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Celebrate what you want to see more of. ~Tom Peters


Datavo wishes everyone an exciting and prosperous New Year! Happy 2013!