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73 Best New Year Quotes to Ring in 2023 With Inspiration

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

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2023 is right around the corner, and it's time to celebrate! So get to planning that annual New Year's Eve party complete with just the right curated New Year's Eve song playlist and all your favorite New Year's Eve traditions like watching the ball drop and holding a New Year's movie marathon. In addition to all the festivity to ring in the New Year, it's also a great time to reflect on all that 2022 brought and all the new beginnings 2023 will usher in. To inspire more of those thoughts for yourself or to share in them a card to a family member or friend, we've rounded up 62 New Year's quotes to help fill the start of 2023 with joy.

These words of motivation and positivity are sure to energize you to step into new beginnings with new resolutions (perhaps even funny ones). Some quotes will likely be familiar, others will be new to you. Some are funny, others are inspirational. So scroll through these sayings and see which stand out to you. Perhaps write them on a notecard to continue to speak to you as you step into New Year's Day or pair them with just the right photo for an New Year's Instagram caption win. Cheers to the new year!

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Dave Beard

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"Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since."

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Fred DeVito

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"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

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Albert Einstein

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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

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Henry Ford

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"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."

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Mark Twain

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"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

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Kimberly Snyder

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"Progress not perfection."

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Jane Fonda

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"It's never too late—never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

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Michael Jordan

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"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

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Taylor Swift

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"I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day."

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Henry David Thoreau

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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it."

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Vidal Sassoon

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"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

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Jonathan Huie

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"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

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Dr. Seuss

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"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

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Alan Cohen

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"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

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Ben Jonson

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"To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure."

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Frank Sinatra

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"The best is yet to come."

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Ellen Goodman

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"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched."

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Beyoncé

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"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."

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C.S. Lewis

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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

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Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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"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."

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