New Year's Quotes 2019: 15 Inspirational Sayings About New Beginnings, Resolutions

There’s nothing like the idea of a fresh start, and that is something the beginning of every new year brings. Before ushering in 2019, celebrate New Year’s Eve by taking in these 15 inspirational sayings about new beginning and resolutions.

The following quotes are courtesy of GoodReads, Brainy Quote, and DGreetings.

1. “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

2. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”

- Vern McLellan, Author

3. “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, Author

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, Author/Activist

5. “A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.”

- Phil McGraw, Author/TV Personality

6. “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, Filmmaker

7. “Hope. Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier.'”

- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

8. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”

- Charles Lamb, Essayist

9. “For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.”

- T.S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”

10. “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 ”

11. “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

- Göran Persson, Former Prime Minister of Sweden

12. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”

- Brad Paisley, Musician

13. “The objects of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton, Author

14. “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. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

- Neil Gaiman, Author

15. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

- C.S. Lewis, Author