New Year is the time for new days, new beginnings, and new possibilities, where all the troubles of the past year disappear.
In case you lack the motivation to make a fresh start, here’s a great list of end of year quotes to inspire you and prepare you for all that is about to come.
These motivational end of year quotes will give you that extra push you need to pick yourself up, start working on achieving your goals, and live the best life in the new year.
I gave my best to collect the most inspirational quotes the internet has to offer about closing the past year and being blessed to see another year.
Hope you’ll like them as much as I did!
Top 20 End Of Year Quotes
1. “New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” ― Alex Morritt
2. “On New Year’s Eve, the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” ― Akilnathan Logeswaran
3. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” ― Hal Borland
4. “New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give, how you will live.” ― Anthony Robbins
5. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” ― Brad Paisley
6. “Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
7. “Reflect upon your present blessings ― of which every man has many ― not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” ― Charles Dickens
8. “I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week, and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.” ― Darrell Hammond
9. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better person.” ― Benjamin Franklin
10. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” ― Vern McLellan
11. “At the end of the day, it’s all about what’s on the shelf at the end of the year.” ― Steve Coppell
12. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
13. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
14. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” ― John R. Dallas Jr.
15. “As this New Year approaches, find inspiration around you, and motivation within you, to be all that you can be.” ― Kate Summers
16. “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” ― Steven Spielberg
17. “Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.” ― Ellen Goodman
18. “Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories.” ― Munia Khan
19. “The first few days of each new year have always seemed to be filled with a special magical quality of anticipation. What will the new calendar produce in our lives?” ― Og Mandino
20. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ― Oprah Winfrey
Inspirational Quotes For The Year’s End
1. “Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
2. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” ― Paulo Coelho
4. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ― C.S. Lewis
5. “Let us embrace the coming year with a living hope for everyday life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
6. “The year end brings no greater pleasure than the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.” ― Charles Dickens
7. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ― Socrates
8. “Rather than saying good luck and good fortune to you this New Year, let me say work hard, laugh often, continue to learn, be kind, help others, pray for wisdom, and then good fortune will see you this coming year.” ― Robert Rivers
9. “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
10. “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ― Carl Brad
11. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler
12. “You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ― Martin Luther King Jr
13. “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” ― Karen Lamb
14. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
15. “One day, you will wake up, and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” ― Paolo Coelho
16. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” ― Nido Qubein
17. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
18. “I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.” ― Oliver Herford
19. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ― Edith Lovejoy Pierce
20. “Instead of trying to change your entire life in January, the simpler strategy is to adopt a 12-month plan where you’re making constant improvements.” ― S. J. Scott
See also: 170 Self-Improvement Quotes To Make Your Life Better
Last Day Of The Year Motivational Quotes
1. “Everyone should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
2. “In the New Year, never forget to thank 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
3. “The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming 12 months!” ― Edward Payson Powell
4. “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” ― Brooks Atkinson
5. “This cannot be the year of talking. Of wishing. Of wanting. This has to be the year you get it done!” ― Eric Thomas
6. “Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.” ― Michael Josephson
7. “If you wrote a book for each day of the year that has passed. And then reread it on New Year’s eve, what things would you change, what things would you cherish? Take the things that are cherished and vow to focus more on that in the coming New Year.” ― Theodore W. Higginsworth
8. “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ― Ellen Goodman
9. “Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.” ― William Arthur Ward
10. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” ― Albert Einstein
11. “New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach
12. “One resolution I have made and try always to keep is this: To rise above the little things.” ― John Burroughs
13. “There are greater things to be achieved in every New Year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by a lot of sacrifices.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
14. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” ― J.P. Morgan
15. “Time passes: yesterday has gone forever, but tomorrow never comes. Let’s make the most of today.” ― Robert Ashby
16. “As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection ― a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.” ― Peggy Toney Horton
17. “Another fresh new year is here… Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and give!” ― William Arthur Ward
18. “How the New Year will turn out is entirely up to you. The attitude you bring, the determination you have, the goals you set all will result in the type of year that you will have. So let your attitude be positive, your determination be strong!” ― Theodore W. Higginsworth
19. “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
20. “Every task, goal, race and year comes to an end…therefore, make it a habit to FINISH STRONG.” ― Gary Ryan Blair
See also: 60 Inspirational You Are Stronger Than You Think Quotes
New Year Quotes For A New Beginning
1. “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” — Nick Frederickson
2. “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
3. “What feels like the end is often the beginning. Don’t worry, everything will be ok because better days are ahead of you/” — Unknown
4. “Every ending is a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time.” ― Mitch Albom
5. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ― Seneca
6. “Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” ― Karen Kaiser Clark
7. “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” ― Neil Gaiman
8. “A new year brings not only happiness, it makes us happy with a hope to fulfill our dreams or a new beginning of our life. So, a new year is very special to everyone.” ― Santonu Kumar Dhar
9. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
10. “Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings.” ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
11. “For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of New Year, we look at our own. It is a good habit.” ― Arthur H. Sulzberger
12. “Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time, we’d like each other a little more.” ― Judy Garland
13. “Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams. Start a new day with positive vibes.” ― Unknown
14. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ― Plato
15. “As the new year begins, let it be a year where you try new things, learn new things, and develop to the potential within you.” ― Theodore W. Higginsworth
16. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain
17. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ― Josiyah Martin
18. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” ― Tony Robbins
19. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” ― Neil Gaiman
20. “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
Funny End Of The Year Quotes
1. “It’s time to make old mistakes in new ways!” ― Unknown
2. “My New Year’s resolution is to tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” ― Hunar Hali
3. “Last year’s resolution was to lose 20 pounds by Christmas. Only 30 pounds to go.” ― Unknown
4. “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” ― Unknown
5. “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
6. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” — Joey Adams
7. “Out with the old, in with the new” is a fitting expression for a holiday that is based on vomiting.” ― Andy Borowitz
8. “Never make a resolution which won’t be as important on the eighth of April or the tenth of July as it is on the first of January.” ― Cary Grant
9. “I would say happy new year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.” ― Robert Clark
10. “What is the funniest thing people do on 1st January? They make resolutions.” ― Pearl Aman
11. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas Edison
12. “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” ― Bill Vaughan
13. “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” ― Oscar Wilde
14. “Tonight’s December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark, and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!” ― Ogden Nash
15. “Let us celebrate this New Year’s Eve in honor of the time we successfully wasted this year.” — Unknown
16. “The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” ― P.J. O’Rourke
17. “Save a little money each month, and at the end of the year, you’ll be surprised at how little you have.” ― Ernest Haskins
18. “I can’t wait to control-alt-delete 2022 and start anew.” — Unknown
19. “A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” ― Phil McGraw
20. “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” ― Bill Vaughan
See also: 90 Inspiring & Funny Quotes About Aging Gracefully
Final Thoughts
As fast as we’ve reached the end of this year, we reached the bottom line of my collection of end of year quotes.
I hope it provided you with a good dose of inspiration to make a closure on this year and get ready for transitioning to the next one.
Are you ready?
