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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.

Looking for some great spring quotes?

Here’s some spring quotations and sayings as we prepare for winter to turn into springtime at the Vernal Equinox, which falls around March 20 of each year in the northern hemisphere and around September 21 in the southern hemisphere.

These spring quotes and sayings all have an underlying theme of hope, change and optimism.

Enjoy!

“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” ~Virgil A. Kraft

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.” ~Susan Bissonnette

“No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.” ~Proverb

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ~Anne Bradstreet

(Jay Simmons Photo)