Happy New Year Quotes: Short, Inspirational & Funny New Year Quotes

Short New Year quotes you can send as a text, post as a status or write in a card. Every line here is our own, grouped by mood: new beginnings, hope, time, gratitude, love and friendship, and a few to make people laugh.

Short New Year quotes about new beginnings

  1. A new year doesn't ask you to become someone else. It just gives you room to become more of yourself.
  2. The calendar turns one page. You get to decide what goes on the next one.
  3. Every year ends with a door closing and starts with one left open. Walk through it.
  4. New beginnings rarely feel big on the first day. They just feel like trying again.
  5. You don't need a new life this year. A few better days, repeated, will do the job.
  6. The first page of a new year is blank on purpose. Write slowly and write kindly.
  7. A new year brings with it new opportunities.
    It is the time to make new beginnings
    as you open a new chapter of your life.
  8. Let the old year keep its mistakes. You only need to carry the lessons.
  9. Begin again. It's allowed, and a new year is the best excuse.

Inspirational New Year quotes about hope

  1. Hope isn't waiting for a good year. It's getting up on the second of January and trying anyway.
  2. Even after the darkest year, the sun still rises on the first morning of the next one.
  3. Plant a little hope in January and keep watering it. You'll be surprised what's growing by December.
  4. Hard years teach you how strong you are. Good years remind you why it was worth it.
  5. Let this year be lighter than the last, and if it isn't, may you be stronger than you were.
  6. There's always one more chance tucked inside a new year. Look for it.
  7. Years come and go,
    but this year I specially wish 4 u
    a double dose of health n happiness
    topped with loads of good fortune.
    Have a great year ahead!
    Happy New Year!!!
  8. May your hopes be bigger than your worries this year, and may most of them come true.

New Year quotes about time

  1. Time doesn't slow down for anyone. Spend the new year on what matters and on who matters.
  2. Twelve months, fifty-two weeks, one life. Don't waste too much of it waiting.
  3. The clock strikes twelve for everyone at once. What we do after that is our own.
  4. Another year passed quicker than we expected. Let's make the next one count before it does the same.
  5. Time is the one gift everyone gets in equal amounts on New Year's Day. Use yours well.
  6. You can't get last year back, but you still have every single day of this one.
  7. Not every day of the new year will be great, but every one of them is yours.

Gratitude quotes for the New Year

  1. Before making new wishes, thank the old year for the ones it already granted.
  2. Gratitude is the best way to close one year and the kindest way to open the next.
  3. I didn't get everything I wanted last year, but I got through it, and that's worth a thank you.
  4. Count your blessings at midnight. You'll find you had more than you noticed.
  5. Thankful for the people who stayed, the lessons that hurt and the days that made me smile. Happy New Year.
  6. A grateful heart makes any year feel like a good one.
  7. This year, I hope we notice the small good things a little more often.

New Year quotes about love and friendship

  1. The best thing I'm taking into the new year is you.
  2. New year, same old friends. Some things don't need an upgrade.
  3. Love doesn't start fresh every January. It just gets a little deeper.
  4. Friends are the people who make an ordinary year feel like a good one.
  5. May the new year bring us more evenings together and fewer reasons to say we're busy.
  6. Whatever this year holds, I'd like to face it holding your hand.
  7. A year with true friends is never a wasted year.
  8. Little keys open big locks,
    simple words reflect great thoughts,
    your smile can cure heart blocks,
    so keep on smiling, it rocks.
    Happy New Year

Funny New Year quotes

  1. My plan for the new year: do everything I didn't do last year, starting next week.
  2. New year, new me? No thanks. The old me still has unfinished business.
  3. This year I will finally stop putting things off. Tomorrow.
  4. Every year I promise to wake up early. Every year my bed wins.
  5. The only thing I'm giving up this year is giving up on snacks.
  6. Hoping the new year is like a phone update: fewer bugs and a better battery.
  7. Just a reminder that I'll be writing the wrong year on everything until March.
  8. Cheers to a new year and another chance for me to get it right. Or at least less wrong.

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