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New Year Quotes 2024 | Short happy New Year Quotes and Wishes

Read these quotes on time, its meaning, and its passage. Stressing on the value of time and its proper usage, these quotes provides for wonderful reading at the time of new year, and preparing ourselves for the time to come. Click here to forward these quotes to your friends.

New Year Quotes

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

New Year Quotes - To make an end is to make a beginning

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
~ Helen Keller

A warm house is the best New Year present for every child!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
~ P.J. O'Rourke

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
~ Cyril Cusack

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

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

There are greater things to be achieved in every New Year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by a lot of sacrifices.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

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

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

New Year Quote on resolutions

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

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
~ Arthur H. Sulzberger

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Years resolutions, and I have stuck with it ever since.
~ Dave Beard

Let our New Years resolution be this, we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
~ Goran Persson

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?
~ John Dos Passos, 1917

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
~ Jean Paul Richter

Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.
~ Ben Affleck

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

New Year Quote - Opportunities hidden in each new day

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~ Bill Vaughn

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.
~ Anonymous

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

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 generally on January the second.
~ Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
~ Jay Leno

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

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
~ Bill Vaughn

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.
~ Jay Leno

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
~ Anais Nin

What A Grand Thing To Be Loved!
What A Grander Thing Still,To Love!
Like To Spend Time With You
I Am Completely In Love With You
You Mean A Lot To Me
I Wish You The Very Best With A
Year Full Of Happiness
And Hope Love,Joy,Peace
May Follow On Every Day The Whole
New Year Through…

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~ Oprah Winfrey

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is
either quietly with friends or in a
brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends
and people pair off, someone is bound to
be left in tears.
~ W.H. Auden

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

New Year Quotes - Cheers to a new year

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
~ Bill Vaughn quotes
(American industry author, mentor and subject-matter expert)

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
~ Jean Paul Richter

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
~ W.H. Auden

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick "Let us not drink to the past, but to the future."
~ Anon
Quote taken from cardboard box from a bottle of Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky.

"As Time Goes By" You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.
~ Herman Hupfeld

The Lost Lover No time like the present.
~ Mrs Manley

Metamorphoses
Time the devourer of everything.
~ Harry A. Overstreet

A dance to the music of time.
~ Anthony Powell

Maltese
Time gives good advice.

Time discovered truth.
~ Seneca

King John
Old Time the clock-setter.
~ William Shakespeare

New Year Quotes on optimists and pessimists

Othello
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
~ William Shakespeare

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
~ H. G. Wells

The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time.
~ Shakespeare

We burn daylight.
~Shakespeare

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
~ Byron

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~ Queen Elizabeth I's last words

All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lat moment.
~ French

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