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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.

New Year Quotes – Funny and Inspirational New Year's Resolutions Quotes and Sayings. (Jean Scheijen Photo)

The new year is a time for new beginnings, change and hope. And many partake in New Year’s goal setting – resolutions to lose weight, exercise more frequently, quit smoking, stop procrastinating, stop drinking and resolutions to spend more time with family and/or friends.

New Year’s resolutions are often over-ambitious. This means that goals for the new year are notoriously difficult to accomplish and often abandoned. These qualities make New Year’s resolutions a frequent topic of discussion during the holiday season – and this means plenty of quotes about New Year’s resolutions, both cynical and encouraging.

So today’s quotes of the day are both humorous and a bit inspiring quotations – they’re New Year quotes about resolutions and goals.

“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

“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”    ~John Selden

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

“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.”    ~Unknown

“I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you?  Since, because it’s an extension of New Year’s Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system.  Also dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary — moment by moment — in order to ease your hangover.  I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began on January the second.”    ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’ Diary

Readers who enjoyed these New Year’s resolution quotes may also want to check out Inspirational Quotes About a New Year, along with The Great Life Quotes and Saying’s site’s Funny New Year Quotes and Sayings.