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"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one." - Brad Paisley

"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

"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

"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals." - Melody Beattie

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This is the beginning of anything you want. Anonymous


2018 I'm Ready. Out with the old, in with the new. Anonymous


More Quotes Praying God's love shines bright in your new year… and his blessings over flow. Romans 5:5


We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. John Greenleaf Whittier


New Year Quotes Card     Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering 'it will be happier' Alfred Tennyson


"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can." I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life. ~Lao Tzu


Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better.


New Year Quotes Card     Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin


I honestly hope each and every one of you have the best year ever in New Year.


Happy New dreams Happy New days Happy New Desires Happy New ways Happy New Year Happy New you.


New Year New Moments New Adventures New Lessons New Memories New Challenges New Opportunities.


Have a sparkling New Year!


This New Year is Gonna be super Happy & Wild And absolutely Awesome.


New Year Quotes Card     The New year means nothing if you're still in love with your comfort zone.


Happy New Year If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, It would be to find out who I am.


A New Year Renewed Hope New Opportunities New Adventures New Ways to give and love. May this be your best year ever! Anonymous


I Feel a new beginning coming towards me & I'm running to it with open arms. Anonymous


Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha


What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year. Vern Mclellan


Ring out the false, ring in the true. Alfred Lord Tennyson


A new heart for a New Year, always! Charles Dickens


It's not luck... it's God's favor. From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. John 1:16


A good beginning makes a good end. English Proverb


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


Ignore worries, Avoid tensions, believe in you intentions, have no fears and love your dears, throughout the year.


I wish you a bright New Year, Just like every year you have brightened in my life, thank you. Happy New Year.


Here comes a New Year Have a good one!


365 new days, 365 new chances.


Today is the perfect day to be happy.


New Year Quotes Card     A New Year, a new start and a new way to go! Wish you a successful and glorious Happy New Year.


This is the year we will be stronger, braver, kinder, unstoppable and this year will be fierce.


Every end is a new beginning.


New Year Quotes Card     Page 1 of 365.


May your eyeliner be even and your holidays be bright.


This New Year Believe that anything is possible Start each day with goals Eat real food Buy good books and make time to read them Drink water Exercise daily even when it sounds like a terrible ideaShop for quality not quantity Purge the unnecessary and decrease clutter Hug the ones you love Find the best in others Show others the best in me.


New Year Quotes Card     So, I close my eyes to old ends And open my heart to new beginnings.


New Year, New Feels, New Chances. Same Dreams, Fresh Starts.


The best is yet to come. Happy New Year.


What is coming is better than what is gone.


New Year, same me because I'm already freakin' fabulous.


Oh La La, Let's go for another Happy New Year.


This is your year to sparkle.


Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. William Shakespeare


12 New Chapters 365 new chances.

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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


Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. ~Charles Lamb


New Year Quotes Card     Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years. Henry Moore


Of all sound of all bells . . . most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~JayLeno


New Year Quotes Card     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


Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that. ~Judith Crist


Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you. But your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others. ~Anonymous


New Year Wishes Quotes     Lets ring this new year with only good things wish you a happy new year.


The secret for success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli


Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment. ~Sydney Smith


A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world! ~Charles Dickens


Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth ~Martin Luther


Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. ~William Makepeace Thackeray


    First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald


People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale


    A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.- William Hazlitt


What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Happy New Year! ~Sufi Poetry by Hazrat Inayath Khan


A new oath holds pretty well; but...when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain


The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul ~G. K. Chesterton quotes


New Year Quotes     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 ~Mark Twain


The further we advance, the more difficult and more important our part in the symphony of life becomes; and the more conscious we become of this responsibility, the more efficient we become in accomplishing our task. ~Author Unknown


In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want. ~Irish Toast


May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! Aleister Crowley, Moonchild


For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"


    An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the Old Year leaves. ~Irish Toast


The secret for success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Author Unknown


Be always at War with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better person. ~Benjamin Disraeli


Cheers to New Year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey


New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. ~James Agate quotes


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


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights ~Hamilton Wright Mabie quotes


He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. ~F.M. Knowles


    Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ~Walter Scott


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


    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


A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. Edgar Guest

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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. George William Curtis


Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold. -Anonymous


You must leave your many millions, And the gay and festive crowd; Though you roll in royal billions, There's no pocket in a shroud. John Alexander Joyce


These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng. Bible


Every man/woman should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up or let out one hole more in the buckle if necessary according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man/woman gird himself once more, with his/her face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. -Henry Ward Beecher


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. -Charles Lamb


Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ~Horace


Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~Thomas Edison


New 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


    This year lets make a promise to follow the resolutions you make more strictly and achieve what you truly desire in your life. ~Author Unknown


Be so positive for the coming new year that the negative things stay away from you. ~Author Unknown


People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown


New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb


Hindi New Year Quotes Apki ankho me saje he jo bhi Sapne Or Dil me chupi he jo bhi Abhilashayen, Yah naya varsh unhe sach kar jaye Aap K Liye Yahi Hai Hamari Shubhkamna.


Mubarak Ho Apko Naya Saal, Hum Ne Advance Me Ye Piagham Bheja Hai. Happy New Year.


    Socha kisi apne se baat karein, apne kisi khaas ko yaad karein, kiya jo faislaa naye saal ki shubhkamnayein dene ka, dil ne kaha kyon na shuruwaat aapse karein


Ek dua mangten hain hum apne bhagwan se, Chahte hain aapki khushi pure imaan se, Sab hasratein puri hon aapki, Aur aap muskarayen dil-o-jaan se!!


Aap jahan jayen wahanse karen Fly all Year, Sab log aapko hi manen apna Dear, Aap ke har raste ho Always Clear... Aur Khuda de Aapko aik Jhakkas New Year!! HAPPY NEW YEAR


Romantic New Year Quotes As the new year blossoms, May the journey of ur life be fragrant wid new opportunities, Ur days be bright wid new hopes. & ur heart be happy wid love! Happy New Year!


Let this New Year be the one, where all your dreams come true, so with a joyful heart, put a start to this year anew. Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year


    Memorable moment r celebrated together, U r my best friend for now & forever, Make me Miss U even more this New Year, Hope this 2018 bring Happiness for you Dear.


New years is a time to start new so I need to say that I like you, will you be mine this new year?


There is very little I can ask from God this New Year as He was kind enough to have sent me the best possible gift already – You!


    Receive my simple gift of LOVE, Wrapped with SINCERITY Tied with CARE & Sealed with BLESSINGS to Keep you HAPPY & SAFE all the life long. HAPPY NEW YEAR my love


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


    If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. Confucius


All lasting business is built on friendship. – Alfred A. Montapert


A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. – Henry Ford


I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford


    What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche


Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if the melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche


    All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. – Orison Swett Marden


When was the last time you did something for the first time? Sally Edwards


Short New Year Quotes Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson


We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one ~John Greenleaf Whittier


    The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson


I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends. Julia Ward Howe


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


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


    As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. – Simon Newcomb


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. – Joey Adams


Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday. – Euripides


You must leave your many millions, And the gay and festive crowd; Though you roll in royal billions, There's no pocket in a shroud. John Alexander Joyce


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

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It's time to unfold new pages and start a new chapter in your life because it's a new year. Happy New Year  

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. ~Anonymous


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. ~Anonymous


    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


I wish you end up without a funny face in group photos this year.


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


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


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


New Year Resolution Quotes Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ~Abraham Lincoln


The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. Marie Edgeworth


     A dog's New Year's Resolution: I will not chase that stick unless I actually see it leave his hand! Anonymous


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


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


     Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. John Selden


When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out. St John Chrysostom


Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. Jonathan Edwards


Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. Akhenaton


To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live like a jackal for a hundred years. Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu


Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Dwight D. Eisenhower


     Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in tenacity. Louis Pasteur


An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller


A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. George S. Patton


     What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D. Eisenhower


Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi


Funny New Year Resolutions Quotes I need to finish reading the books I bought last year. I always forget doing so.


I will make sure to do all my resolutions unlike last year.


I should be fine without a beer. Yet, one for a day should be good.


I will save water. So that means less baths.


I will stop checking on my e-mail messages, especially my work mail.


Realize my potentials. What are they by the way? 


I will not smoke but if I have a problem, I need a pack to help me by.


Quit making the same excuses. I need to find new ones so they don't get suspicious.

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I liked this one best.

"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

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My very best wishes
for a blessed New Year,
filled with inspiration, confidence and many moments
of smiles and happiness with family and friends!

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Here's my pick for today:

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been ...

Rainer Maria Rilke https://www.brainyquote.com/lists/topics/top_10_newyears_quotes
("Und nun wollen wir glauben an ein langes Jahr, das uns gegeben ist, neu, unberührt, voll nie gewesener Dinge ...)

opposing
New 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
http://www.123newyear.com/new-year-quotes/

or inviting to "rinse"
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/newyears

while seeking some wisdom

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Albert Einstein
http://www.123newyear.com/new-year-quotes/

or exploring poetry 

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

Hartley Coleridge
http://www.123newyear.com/new-year-quotes/

and, of course, remembering:
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Chinese proverb

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All these good wishes, so hard to choose;

Family, friends, orgasms or booze...

But in the end, when all's been wrote,

I wish you whatever will float your boat!   :) :) :)

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Thank you Dan, you posted a beautiful new year greeting!

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Dear Dan, your wise quotes and wishes,

offer lots of brainy dishes,

feeding small and bigger fishes -

with words or tunes, wiping the tears,

soothing anger, grudges and fears - 

shaming snooty "eeks" and "pishes",

drowning them in gentle squishes.

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