76+ Best Year End Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational year end quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

Famous Year End Quotes

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard

In this new year, be grateful that God has given you victory over many things over the past year.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Paulo Coelho

A worthy New Year’s resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose.

What feels like the end is often the beginning.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J.R.R. Tolkien

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love. Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons

Be grateful to God, every year you live.

I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. Oliver Herford

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Hal Borland

Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.

Every task, goal, race and year comes to an end therefore, make it a habit to FINISH STRONG. Gary Ryan Blair

You know how I always dread the whole year? Well this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let’s make the most of today. Robert Ashby

This year’s book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.

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

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Every ending is a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time. Mitch Albom

New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream lined pathway of future.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions. Tony Robbins

If plan A didn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? Charles Bukowski, Post Office

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. Ellen Goodman

You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer

In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.

Stop trying to press rewind. It’s life, not a movie.

The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.

As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection  a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future. Peggy Tony Horton

Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!

Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try. William Arthur Ward

I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter F. Drucker

Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. Margaret J. Wheatley

In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate with your dreams.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas Edison

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow. Shauna Niequist

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.

It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein

We spend January 1st 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.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. W. P. Kinsella

Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Karen Kaiser Clark

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.

I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements. Darrell Hammond

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end

Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we’d like each other a little more. Judy Garland

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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