These 30 New Year's Resolutions Quotes Will Inspire You To Accomplish Great Things In The New Year

1. Don’t make resolutions without an action plan. The secret to success is right in your hands. – J. Allen Shaw, Results

2. Why do New Years Resolutions fail? Mainly, because they are only a statement, or what we wish for in the coming year. There are usually no action plans, no deadlines, no backup plans. Sometimes they are unrealistic resolutions, with no other thought or plans beside the statement. – Catherine Pulsifer

3. The meaning of resolution is “a firm decision to do or not to do something.” The key words are “firm decision”. If you make a firm decision about something then you must also take action and set a deadline, in other words, set a goal! – Catherine Pulsifer

4. 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

5. I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don’t wait until the New Year. – Georgina Bloomberg

6. If you are a human being you probably use the beginning of every year to reflect on the past year, make decision and set resolutions for the New Year. It is a good thing to make resolutions, but it takes a good deal of discipline and commitment to get results that would be different and better than what you got last year. – Lionnel Yamentou Ndzogoue

7. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. – John Burroughs

8. But it is also ordained that men shall go blithely on just the same, ignoring in practice the ridiculousness which they admit in theory, and drawing renewed hope and conceit from some magic, exhaustless source. And this is the whole philosophy of the New Year’s resolution. – Arnold Bennett
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9. Like many other people, you’ve decided to make New Year’s resolutions because you know there are things you’re unhappy with in your life. – Thibaut Meurisse

10. A New Year’s resolution to stay in touch with old friends, start exercising, or get more sleep has no real painful consequence for not following through, at least in the short-term, unless you attach a consequence yourself. – Derek Doepker

11. The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. – Melody Beattie

12. So what do we do every year during the holiday season? We make outlandish, unattainable and often ridiculous resolutions that almost all of us already know we will not keep. In fact, most people don’t even remember half the New Year’s resolutions they made come Valentine’s Day. Don’t fall in the trap. – Michael L. Eads

13. Let us begin this New Year with a resolution. Be all for Jesus and with Jesus and you will be happy and holy throughout the year. Give yourselves over to prayer and close union with God and to a deep, joyful charity. – Angelo Scolozzi

14. After the holidays are over then you may want to look at setting your goals for the coming year rather than just setting a resolution. – Catherine Pulsifer

15. Are you excited about your plans for the new year? Most of us have an idea about areas where we’d like to improve. And at the beginning of the year, those ideas sometimes turn into resolutions or goals. – John Maxwell

16. We set resolutions because we want something to change in our life. But if we are not specific and have no detailed plans about how we are going to change it then we can expect things to remain as they currently are. And we will end the year without the resolution accomplished. So rather than set them if we should recognize what we have accomplished in the past year and build on them, where is there the potential to do more, to be more. Catherine Pulsifer

17. 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

18. It is no surprise that those who – Wish – may not see results, but those with a resolution get the results they desire – at least close to it! – Boomy Tokan

19. A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” – Author Unknown
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20. You may know them under their more usual name of New Year Resolutions (the capitals show how important they are!); you may also be familiar with the realisation, by the end of January, that you have either forgotten what you had resolved because the list was too long and you’ve mislaid the paper it was jotted on, or that those you do remember were simply unmanageable! – Alicia Brent

21. We are designed to thrive off of success after success, but the problem most people have with New Year’s resolutions is that they are not generally short-term plans that are wired for a quick adrenaline rush of success. – Sharlene Snow

22. Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. They whom frequent failures have made desperate, cease to form resolutions, and they who are become cunning, do not tell them. — Samual Johnson

23. There is too much said at New Year’s about turning over a new leaf. Are the old leaves all so badly written that we must hasten to forget them? Is the blank whiteness of the untouched page more pleasant to the eye or more fortifying to the will than those closely written, underlined, untidy, but familiar pages which make up the story of one’s life? – Bliss Perry

24. Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come. – Melody Beattie

25. New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. – James Agate

26. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

28. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

29. Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

30. For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice – T.S. Elliot.