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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.

Nickelback's song "If Today Was Your Last Day" has great quotes on living life to the fullest. (Mark Larner Photo)

It’s rare to find some inspiring quotes about life and living in a top 40 song, but that’s exactly what you’ll find in the song If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickelback. As the title implies, the song explores what it means to live life to the fullest; what it means to live life without regrets.

Nickelback’s song If Today Was Your Last Day was released on November 18, 2008 on the album Dark Horse, but it wasn’t until the fall of 2009 that the song made the top 40 pop charts.

(You can download If Today Was Your Last Day or Nickelback’s entire Dark Horse album on )

Here are today’s quotes of the day from Nickelback’s If Today Was Your Last Day on The Great Life Quotes and Sayings Blog:

“If today was your last day / and tomorrow was too late / could you say goodbye to yesterday? / Would you live each moment like your last? / Leave old pictures in the past? / Donate every dime you have? / Would you call old friends you never see? / Reminisce old memories? / Would you forgive your enemies? / Would you find that one you’re dreamin’ of? / Swear up and down to God above / that you finally fall in love / if today was your last day.”    ~Nickelback,  If Today Was Your Last Day

“Do whatever it takes / ’cause you can’t rewind a moment in this life. / Let nothin’ stand in your way / ’cause the hands of time are never on your side.”    ~Nickelback,  If Today Was Your Last Day

“Against the grain should be a way of life. / What’s worth the prize is always worth the fight. / Every second counts ’cause there’s no second try / so live like you’ll never live it twice. / Don’t take the free ride in your own life.” ~Nickelback, If Today Was Your Last Day“My best friend gave me the best advice; / he said ‘Each day’s a gift and not a given right.’ /  Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind / and try to take the path less traveled.”    ~Nickelback,  If Today Was Your Last Day

“If today was your last day / and tomorrow was too late / could you say goodbye to yesterday?”    ~Nickelback,  If Today Was Your Last Day

If you want to hear this song or download  If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickelback, visit .