32 New Year Resolution Quotes to Inspire You

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Explore New Year Resolution quotes to inspire you as you set your resolutions and embark on new adventures in the coming year!

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32 New Year Resolution Quotes

New Year’s Eve always finds everyone counting last year’s accomplishments and failures, reviewing past resolutions, and adding new ones. Here are some motivational quotes to help you kick-start your New Year resolutions:

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To build the new

The focus in life, like focus on photography, is everything. With the right focus, we can achieve whatever we pursue. With the wrong focus, we may wander unfulfilled. So, whatever change we dream to make this New Year we should put all our energy into the new and stop fighting.

1. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
2. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
3. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
4. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
5. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
8. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
9. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
10. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”. – Socrates

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To become what we wish

I grow up with people that always said “I can’t be like this”, or “I wish I could be like that”. Maybe I was reading so much literature from my childhood, but I thought that this phrase was unthinkable. If we wish to be something else, we should try to act like this. This quote from Socrates reminds us so clearly that we control what we are.

1. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
2. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
3. “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” – Tom Peters
4. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
5. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
6. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
8. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
9. “Be as you wish to seem”. Socrates

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What we do, defines us

Small everyday actions have a huge impact when they are repeated. The difficult part is not to lose self-motivation and the big picture when you try to establish a healthy habit. Everyday practice for an hour is the key to establishing whatever habit you wish.

1. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
2. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
3. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
4. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
5. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit”. – Aristotle

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To continue counts

It is a common rule for all of us that the resolutions usually break and then are forgotten. When we fail or we feel disappointed with an obstacle, the easiest thing is to lose motivation and stop trying. This moment is so important not to give up and embrace the power of staying decisive to succeed. Thus, the key to the success of New Year’s resolutions is not to stop trying despite the imperfection of our actions.

1. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
2. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
3. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
4. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
5. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
6. “Success is not final and failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”. –Winston Churchill

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Learn from mistakes

This is one of my favorite quotes to inspire New Year Resolutions. Commonly, we learn more from failure than from success. But, one of the mistakes we make is to feel miserable for our failure than to take the blame, analyze what we did wrong, and get over it. We underestimate the power of naming and defining things. Once we start describing our behavior and actions that lead to failure, we will have a clear view of ourselves and how we can react in these situations. So, detect what is wrong and stop repeating it. It is essential to understand that focusing on failure is not bad when you try to learn from it with an open mind and sincerity.

1. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
2. “Failure is a success if we learn from it”. Malcolm Forbes

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