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Happy New Year Quotes

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

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

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

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

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~Charles Lamb

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden

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

The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~Hartley Coleridge

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

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 twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Doing Your Best Quotes

# Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.–William James

# Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.–William Faulkner

# Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.–Benjamin Franklin

# Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your won. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.–Christian D. Larsen (Creed for Optimists)

# Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.–Phillips Brooks

# Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.–Win Borden

# Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.–Lowell Thomas

# Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.–Bill Sands

# Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.–Sandra Day O’Conner

# Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.–Theodore Roosevelt

# Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.–Horotio W. Dresser

# Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.–Oprah Winfrey

# Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect thet best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.–Ralph Marston (The Daily Motivator)

# Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden

# Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)

# Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else–and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.–G. Norman Collie

# Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!–Anne Frank

# Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.–Viktor Frankl

Top 20 Love Quotes of All Time

1. “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergmen

2. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

3. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities” – Janos Arnay

4. “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” – Margaret Anderson

5. “…..I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met…” – The Wedding Date

6. “Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” – Aphra Behn

7. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

8. “In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.” – Bliss and Cerney

9. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt

10. You make me want to be a better man” – Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets

11. Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we’re gone.” – Titanic Theme, My Heart Will Go On

12. “What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…” – Elizabeth Barret Browning

13. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. “Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” – Robert Browning

15. “If every raindrop would be one of your smiles, I wish it rains heavily throughout, so that there is no space for unhappiness in your life” – Unknown

16. “I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

17. “You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block

18. “Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.” – Euripides

19. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein

20. “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.” – Victor Hugo