New Year’s Quotes: 15 Sayings to Start Off 2014

New Year’s Quotes: 15 Sayings to Start Off 2014
Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on January 1, 2014 in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Jack Phillips
1/2/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

Here’s a few sayings to mark the New Year.

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“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

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you,” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Great Gatsby”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot

“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,” – G.K. Chesterton, English poet and writer

“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one,” – Brad Paisley

“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

“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough,” – Mark Twain, author

“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

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” — Cavett Robert

“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time,” – James Agate, British critic and diarist

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

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. If you’re making mistakes, you’re doing something,” – Neil Gaiman, author

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

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right,” – Oprah Winfrey

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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