60 Best New Year Quotes Full of Inspiration for 2025
Celebrate new beginnings with these joyful messages and sweet words of wisdom.
Goodbye 2024, hello 2025! Whether you ring in the new year by watching the ball drop in Times Square or spending time with loved ones, a fresh start is always something to celebrate.
You can make New Year's resolutions for things you want to change or recommit yourself to goals you’re already working on. And, of course, it’s a great chance to have a little party, too! These New Year’s quotes celebrate the changing of the calendar, regardless of what happened in the past 365 days. They welcome beautiful hopes for a new year, and they can help make great New Year’s toasts or even New Year’s Instagram captions for those classic champagne selfies. While you celebrate the clock striking midnight, give these New Year’s wishes a read to start 2025 with excitement and optimism.
Rainer Maria Rilke
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Michael Josephson
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.
Beyoncé
In our perfect ways, in the ways we are beautiful, in the ways we are human — we are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.
Terri Guillemets
This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.
C.S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
David Bowie
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Munia Khan
New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future.
Charlie Brown
You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Michael Altshuler
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Hal Borland
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Buddha
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
Jonathan Huie
Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings.
Hillary DePiano
You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.
Kelly Martin
Remove shoulds from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.
Josiyah Martin
The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
Robin Sharma
Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
Cameron (she/her) is a staff writer for Good Housekeeping, where she covers everything from holidays to food. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she received a B.A. in magazine journalism. In her spare-time she can be found scrolling TikTok for the latest cleaning hacks and restaurant openings, binge-watching seasons of Project Runway or online shopping.
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