Starting a new year is the perfect time for reflection and planning, so we have put together a list of all the best short happy New Year quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short happy New Year captions, we also have you covered.
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Short Happy New Year Quotes
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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” T.S. Eliot
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” —Nick Frederickson
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” —Karen Kaiser Clark
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
“I like starting projects in January. That’s the best time to start something. It’s so inward.”- Carolyn Chute
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” —Charles Lamb
Counting my blessings and wishing you more. I hope you enjoy the New Year in store.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” —Alex Morritt
“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
“We joyfully pray with grateful heart’s to welcome blessings in New Year.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
“There’s something super special about December.” – Charmaine J. Forde
“The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change we believe that we can change with it.” ― R. Joseph Hoffmann
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” —Oscar Wilde
“There are proponents of New Year’s Eve, and there are proponents of regular Tuesday nights.” ― Amy Krouse Rosenthal
“The year is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party”
“When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” ―Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ―Josiyah Martin
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” —Arthur Rubenstein
“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.”- Sara Coleridge
“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
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin
Happiness as being happy is often the end result of any goals for the new year.
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent
“We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” —Hillary DePiano
“I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?” – Catherine O’Hara
“When dark December glooms the day, and takes our autumn joys away.” – Walter Scott
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.”- Jerry Spinelli
“You staying home all alone on New Year’s Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice … the countdown should be shared with someone, or it’s just another set of numbers passing you by.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
“A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.”―Anusha Atukorala
“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.” ―Peggy Toney Horton
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter waiting to be written.”- Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year.” —Melody Beattie
“January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.” – Anne Truitt
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” —Emilie Coue
“This bright new year is given me, To live each day with zest, To daily grow and try to be, My highest and my best!” —William Arthur Ward
“Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“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
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coehlo
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
Let the old year end and the New Year begin with the warmest of aspirations. Happy New Year!
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” —Kelly Martin
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”—Steven Spielberg
Out with the old, in with the new: may you be happy the whole year through. Happy New Year!
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” ―Hillary DePiano
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
“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
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.” —F.M. Knowles
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“I’ve come to sing you a song called December.” – Ryan Murphy
“As a kid, I thought the song Auld Lang Syne was called Old Man’s Eye. I like my version better.” ― Stewart Stafford
“JANUARY, The first month of the year, A perfect time to start all over again.”- Charmaine J. Forde
“Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page.”- Henry Ward
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Ghandi
“With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.”―Holly Black
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”- Jean Paul
“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming.” —Mike Dooley
“Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” —Buddha
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin
“No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.” – Charles Lamb
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” —Shauna Niequist
“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” —Joey Adams
“This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” —Taylor Duvall
“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” —Kristin Kreuk
“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties,” -Helen Keller
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
“The New Year is a painting not yet painted.” ―Mehmet Murat ildan
Ring out the false, ring in the true.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie
“The cold is coming. December’s winter solstice. Start of the season.” – Robert Pettit
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
“Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” —Michael Josephson
Happy New Year and good luck in the next year! We’ll both need it!
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” —David McCullough Jr.
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” —Auliq Ice
Let us look back at the past year with the warmest of memories. Happy New Year.
“Will love be true as December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June?” – Clement Scott
“January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.”- M.L. Stedman
“The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” ― P.J. O’Rourke
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” —John R. Dallas Jr.
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” —David Bowie
“A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.” – Kiran Bantawa
Happy New Year. Here’s to having a fresh start at binge eating, boozing, and slacking off.
“Last year told you what you needed to know. This year is go time! Happy New Year!” ― Richie Norton
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
“Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.” – Temitope Ibrahim
“Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
Wishing you a Happy New Year with the hope that you will have many blessings in the year to come.
“New year, old you.” ― A.D. Aliwat
“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
“You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” —Steve Harvey
“Begin doing what you want to do now.” —Francis Bacon Sr.
“Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings.” ―Peggy Toney Horton
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” —Frank Scully
“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” —Unknown
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” —Göran Persson
“I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”- Helen Fielding
“Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.” – Sara Coleridge
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” —Albert Einstein
“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
“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” —Neil Gaiman
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding” ―C.J. Cherryh
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go;
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings.”― Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We are the authors of our destinies.” ―Nike Campbell-Fatoki
Happy New Year! Here’s to a year of good health, lots of love, and plenty of laughter.
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan
― Stephen Chbosky
“Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” —Unknown
“Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!”―D.S. Mixell
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
Happy New Year now and always!
“January is the month for dreaming.” – Jean Hersey.
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –Plato
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” —Anne Frank
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan
“December was a horrible month.” – Sandy Bryant
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
Short Happy New Year Sayings
Cheers to the New Year!
New year, same me. Big goals.
I’m ready for you, 2026
And so the adventure begins
The past year was one for the books. I can’t wait to see what adventures await us in 2026!
9 p.m. is the new midnight
New Year. Fresh Start!
Cheers to 2026!
Trust the magic of new beginnings
Out with the old, in with the new. May the New Year bring you prosperity and good fortune.
Celebrating a new year and new beginnings.
I hope 2026 brings you lots of love, laughter, and joy.
New Year, new beginning.
Ringing in the New Year with 2026 vision.
Taking applications for my New Year’s kiss
A new year means a new chapter. I hope 2026 is an incredible part of your story.
New Year, New me
May 2026 be your best year yet.
Wishing you a happy and healthy 2026.
Sip sip, hooray!
Out with the old, in with the new
Cheers to the new year!
Ringing in 2026 in style!
I hope the New Year brings you endless joy.
Cheers to a new year filled with new memories.
Here’s to 2026!
Page one of 365!
May love and laughter fill your New Year.
2026, here we come!
Let’s make the most out of 2026.
See you next year!
So that is it for our list of Short Happy New Year Quotes and Captions. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Short Happy New Year Wishes, Funny Christmas Quotes and Santa Quotes.
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Laynni Locke
Laynni has been sharing her travel adventures and day-to-day life on Routinely Nomadic social media for over 15 years and appreciates the importance of finding the perfect quote or caption to showcase those experiences. Putting her extensive writing and education background to good use, Laynni has become passionate about researching and curating comprehensive lists of all the best quotes and captions for every occasion.