A new year is a time full of hope - of new beginnings, new experiences in life, and much more. No matter how the past year has been, this is a time to reflect on the year gone by and plan for a better future. And some authors beautifully express this feeling of starting afresh and hope through their words. Here we share some such quotes by popular authors on new beginnings which will inspire you to achieve more this year. Read on!
1. “For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot
2. “The beginning of every New Year is always the best time to give another chance to your neglected talents!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
3. "The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”
― Melody Beattie
4. “There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.”
― Jason Soroski
5. "A new year ... a fresh, clean start! It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... let's go exploring!”
— Bill Watterson
6. “Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson
7. “The object 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. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.”
― G.K. Chesterton
8. “Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
9. “Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.”
― Sir Walter Scott
10. “The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
― Ezra Pound
11. "I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing."
― Annie Dillard
12. “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, Neil Gaiman's Journal
13. “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
14. “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild
15. “The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.”
— G.K Chesterton
16. “A new heart for a New Year, always!”
― Charles Dickens
