52 Motivational Quotes for New Year’s Resolutions

If you are thinking of setting New Year’s Resolutions this year, then check out this list of the Top 52 Motivational Quotes related to New Year’s Resolutions.

Goal setting is such a powerful process to get you motivated and focused, and by starting the New Year in the right way, you give yourself every chance of making this year your best year ever.

There is a lot of science behind goal setting, and if you want to learn how to set New Year’s Resolutions the right way, then check out this article which outlines how to apply the science of goal setting to your New Year’s Resolutions. Otherwise, you risk joining the 77% of people that don’t even make it past Quitter’s Day.

But one of the most important elements related to goal setting, especially at New Year’s, is to ensure your mindset is aligned and supporting your goals, and these top motivational quotes will definitely put you in the right mindset and psychology to set big goals and crush all your goals this year.

Quotes On New Beginnings and Setting Goals:

1. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
2. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” – Charles Kettering
3. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie
4. “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
5. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
6. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – Bill Vaughan

8. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
9. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
10. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

Motivational Quotes On Change and Growth:

11. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
12. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
14. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” – Kristin Kreuk
15. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma
16. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
17. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
18. “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue

19. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.” – Neil Gaiman

Motivational Quotes On Hope and Inspiration:

21. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
23. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
24. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
25. “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
26. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb
27. “In the New Year, never forget to thank 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
28. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
29. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
30. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” – Joey Adams

Motivational Quotes For New Year’s Resolutions

31. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
32. “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” – Alex Morritt
33. “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” – Cavett Robert

34. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
35. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen
36. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison

37. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.
38. “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
39. “Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer
40. “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” – Simon Sinek

Great Motivational Quotes Related To Goal Setting

41. ”Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
42. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
43. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale
44. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
45. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” – Pablo Picasso
46. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
47. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

48. “Goals transform a random walk into a chase.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
49. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker and Abraham Lincoln
50. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

51. “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” – Fitzhugh Dodson
52. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

So, that was a list of 52 of the top Motivational Quotes for New Year’s Resolutions.

Hopefully you are now feeling fired up, inspired and ready to get after your goals with energy and passion.

Do you have any Motivational Quotes for New Year’s Resolutions you would add to this list? Please comment with your suggestions below.

Otherwise, be sure to check out this article on how to best set your New Year’s Resolutions.

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