This post is all about new beginning quotes for a new year, new day or generally, a fresh start in life.
As December draws to a close and the festive season is almost over, it’s the perfect time for some quiet reflection on the year just gone by; the ups, the downs, the goals we achieved, the hardships we endured, the strength we gained, the lessons we learnt.
Whatever your own personal experience of the year passed, whether good or bad, it’s time to close a chapter and start afresh, looking onwards and upwards as we move into the new year ahead.
To inspire and motivate, we’ve put together over 100 of our favorite new beginning quotes – quotes that are not only perfect to celebrate the start of a new year, but quotes that serve as great reflection points for any new starts in life or times of new beginnings, and that serve as reminders that every day is a new beginning, whether that’s tomorrow, today .. or this very moment.
New Year Quotes
1. What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.
– Vern McLellan
2. And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
3. 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
4. The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
5. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
– Oprah Winfrey
Tomorrow is a New Beginning Quotes
6. If something great is going to happen in your tomorrow there are certain things that need to end today.
– Sope Agbelusi
7. The darkest night is often the bridge for the brightest tomorrow.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
8. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
– Brad Paisley
End is New Beginning Quotes
9. New beginnings are often disguized as painful endings.
– Lao Tzu
10. Every end is a new beginning.
– Marianne Williamson
11. There are far better things ahead than what we leave behind.
– C. S. Lewis
12. Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.
– Elana K. Arnold
13. Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
14. If you wish to be happy right from the beginning of your day, then it is about time to leave behind your past.
– Lorin Hopper
15. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
– John Dewey
16. The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
– Arnold Bennett
17. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly
– Barbara Haines Howett
18. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
– Louis L’Amour
Today is a New Beginning Quotes
19. The beginning is always today.
– Mary Shelley
20. If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.
– Richelle E. Goodrich
21. What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22. A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.
– Steve Maraboli
23. The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can.
– Mike Dooley
24. The best time for new beginnings is now.
– Unknown
Every Day is a New Beginning Quotes
25. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
– Meister Eckhart
26. It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
– Mel Gibson
27. Don’t start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every day is a fresh start. Each day is a new beginning. Every morning we wake up is the first day of our new life.
– Unknown
28. Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
– Marsha Petrie Sue
29. Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possible can.
– Douglas Pagels
30. Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.
– Catherine Pulsifer
31. The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.
– S. Ajna
32. I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
– J. B. Priestly
33. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.
– Richie Norton
34. To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.
– Tarang Sinha
35. Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.
– Catherine Pulsifer
36. As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.
– Criss Jami
Inspirational New Beginnings Quotes
37. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
– Steve Jobs
38. The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
– Dave Weinbaum
39. Start over, my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to.
– Madalyn Beck
40. Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.
– Mimi Novic
41. Everybody has a geography that can be used for change that is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or not we need to renew ourselves in territories that are fresh and wild. We need to come home through the body of alien lands.
– Joan Halifax
42. And suddenly you know… it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
– Meister Eckhart
43. The best is yet to come.
– Frank Sinatra
44. It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés
45. You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
– Barbara Shur
46. Don’t be afraid of new beginnings, of new people, new energy, new surroundings, new challenges. Embrace new chances at happiness.
– Billy Chapata
47. There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
– Zayn Malik
48. We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
– Joseph Campbell
49. Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
– Paulo Coelho
50. Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.
– Cora Coralina
New Beginnings Captions
51. No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.
– Buddha
52. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
– Seneca
53. Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.
– Rachel Joyce
54. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
55. The beginning is the most important part of the work.
– Plato
56. Be like the lotus: trust in the light, grow through the dirt, believe in new beginnings.
– Unknown
57. I hope the morning sun continues to remind you: you are worthy of new beginnings.
– Morgan Harper Nichols
58. Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.
– Mie Hansson
59. Making a big life change can be scary but living with regret is always scarier.
– Unknown
60. No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
– American Indian Proverb
61. A new beginning is a blank canvas ready and thirsty for paint.
– Chaker Khazaal
62. The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.
– Josiyah Martin
63. I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.
– Nick Frederickson
64. Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
– Ralph Blum
65. Every moment is a fresh beginning.
– T.S. Eliot
New Life Quotes
66. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
– C. S. Lewis
67. Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
– Maya Angelou
68. Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.
– Germany Kent
69. Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.
– Kristin Kreuk
70. You start whenever you decide to start.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
71. Let’s forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.
– Shahbaz Sharif
72. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
– Socrates
73. The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.
– J.R. Rim
74. 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
Fresh Start Quotes
75. Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.
– Nido Qubein
76. Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
– Carl Bard
77. No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun!
– C. Joybell
78. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
– George Eliot
79. It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.
– Laini Taylor
80. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
– Mary Pickford
81. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
– Andre Gide
82. Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
83. Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.
– Dennis E. Adonis
84. Never feel guilty for starting again.
– Rupi Kaur
85. The thrill of new beginnings is immensely alluring!
– Avijeet Das
86. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
– Guy Finley
87. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.
– J.P. Morgan
88. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
– Abraham Lincoln
89. It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet.
– Jennifer Ritchie Payette
90. Starting over can be challenging, but also it can be a great opportunity to do things differently.
– Catherine Pulsifer
Motivational New Beginning Quotes
91. The scariest moment is always just before you start.
– Stephen King
92. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
– Henry Ford
93. Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
– Desmond Tutu
94. Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.
– Muhammad Ali
95. You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
– Tina Fey
96. Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
– C. S. Lewis
97. When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
– Chinese Proverb
98. You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.
– Zig Ziglar
99. Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.
– Jessica S. Yourko
100. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
– Alan Cohen
101. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
– Walt Disney
102. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
– Joseph Campbell
103. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
– Peter Drucker
104. If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
– Dolly Parton
105. The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.
– Simon Sinek
106. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
– Henry Ford
107. If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
– Rumi
108. A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
– Bruce Springsteen
109. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
– Lao Tzu
110. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
– Ben Stein
111. Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.
– Mandy Hale
112. The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
– Malcolm Gladwell
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05/19/2023
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