New Year Quotes 2016: Funny Sayings To Celebrate The Holiday And Motivate Your Resolutions

The year has come and gone, and let's hope selfie sticks go with it. After 365 days full of Donald Trump, #squadgoals and an international debate over a blue-black dress, the world is finally ready to welcome 2016. As you remember 2015's man buns and Zayn Malik departure, celebrate the start of a new year with eloquence.

Here are 16 motivational and funny quotes to say and share on New Year's Eve and Day, collected from Goodreads, the Telegraph and the Quote Garden.

"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

"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

“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.” — G.K. Chesterton

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

“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” — Charles Kettering

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” — Neil Gaiman

"New Year's Day now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." — Mark Twain

"All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives." — Steven Spielberg

"Thirty ways to shape up for [the new year] — number one: eat less; number two: exercise more; number three… What was I talking about? I’m so hungry right now." — Maria Bamford

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person.” – Benjamin Franklin

“For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." — C.S. Lewis

"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets." — William Thomas

"My New Year’s resolution list usually starts with the desire to lose between 10 and 3,000 pounds." — Nia Vardalos

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." — Charles Lamb

"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." — Joey Adams