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Motivational Quotes for New Year – Happy New Year Quotes to Inspire and Motivate. (G. Schouten de Jel Photo)

The new year tends to inspire and motivate people to improve their life and to become a better person. So on the eve of 2010, I thought it would be fitting to publish some motivational quotes for a new year, quotes to inspire change and improvement.

So without further delay, here are some happy New Year’s quotes about motivation and inspiration. Happy New Year, from the Great Life Quotes and Sayings website!

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”    ~Henry Ford

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~Michael Altshuler

“You have done what you could — some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”     ~Emerson

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”    ~George Bernard Shaw

“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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”    ~Aristotle

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

Readers may also enjoy reading more inspirational new year quotes on The Great Life Quotes and Sayings website:

* Inspirational Quotes – Inspiring New Year’s Quotes

* Quotes About New Year’s Resolutions

* Funny New Year Quotes and Sayings.

Inspiring Quotes – Inspirational New Year Quotes About Change and Optimism. (Michael Pascual Photo)

For many, the holiday season is a time of inspiration and hope. In particular, the new year is a time of change and new beginnings. So there are many great inspirational quotes about a new year, quotes about hope and quotations about change.

These inspirational New Year’s quotes may be a nice email signature, or perhaps you may add an inspiring quote about the new year to a scrapbook, alongside New Year’s Eve celebration photos! For those who send out Christmas cards, you could include an inspiring new year quote in your holiday card’s message.

Whatever the case, enjoy today’s quotes of the day – happy new year quotes to inspire and hope quotes for the new year.

“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

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

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”    ~Benjamin Franklin

“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

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

Readers may also enjoy The Great Life Quotes and Sayings Blog’s other New Year’s quotes, including Quotes About New Year’s Resolutions, along with Funny New Year Quotes and Sayings.