It’s almost 2024, and there’s no doubt that the end of the year is a magical time. Excitement is high, plans are being made, dreams are being seen for the first time, and some are fulfilled. And I’m sure there’s some fear mixed in there too.
Regardless of how you feel about the upcoming year, you can’t deny that there’s anticipation in your gut that’s looking forward to a new start.
So, here are 101 end of year quotes that will inspire you to finish this year strong and motivate you to be fearless in 2024!
101 End of Year Quotes
1. “What feels like the end is often the beginning.” Unknown
2. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius
3. “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
4. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier
5. “Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful.” Beau Taplin
6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
7. “Always find time for the things that make you feel happy to be alive.” Matt Haig
8. “Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to, doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you ever imagined.” Unknown
9. “You don’t want to look back and know you could’ve done better.” Unknown
10. “Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a new chance to rebuild what you want.” Unknown
11. “Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey.” Michael Josephson
12. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” T.S. Eliot
13. “You can. End of story.” Cory Lewis
14. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.” Charles Kettering
15. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” Unknown
16. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” Muhammad Ali
17. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato
18. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Sun Tzu
19. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” Mark Twain
20. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” William Shakespeare
21. “Let’s do what we love, and let’s do a lot of it.” Marc Jacobs
22. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” Michael Jordan
23. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun
24. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis
25. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” Unknown
26. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” Maya Angelou
27. “For there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” Amanda Gorman
28. “Sometimes you have to do what you don’t love, so that you can do what you love.” Unknown
29. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” Carl Sagan
30. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” Anthony Robbins
31. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Abraham Lincoln
32. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
33. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
34. “Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes
35. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
36. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein
37. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.” Alfred Lord Tennyson
38. “At any given moment, you have the power to say, “This is not how the story is going to end.” Christine Mason Miller
39. “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. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.” Peggy Toney Horton
40. “The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.” Unknown
41. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard
42. “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
43. “Every ending is a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time.” Mitch Albom
44. “Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.” Ellen Goodman
45. “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” Charles Bukowski
46. “Stop trying to press rewind. It’s life, not a movie.” Unknown
47. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” Shauna Niequist
48. “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” Nido Qubein
50. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs
51. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.” Regina Brett
52. “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” Steve Harvey
53. “I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.” Darrell Hammond
54. “Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself.” Unknown
55. “In this new year, be grateful that God has given you victory over many things over the past year.” Steven M. Hitchcock
56. “Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we’d like each other a little more.” Judy Garland
57. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. “Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.” Joanne Raptis
59. “Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” Michael Josephson
60. “We are the authors of our destinies.” Nike Campbell-Fatoki
61. “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” F.M. Knowles
62. “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” Unknown
63. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” David Bowie
64. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” Michael Altshuler
65. “Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.” Unknown
66. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” Josiyah Martin
67. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” Robin Sharma
68. “I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.” Juansen Dizon
69. “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” Criss Jami
70. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” C.S. Lewis
71. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” Neil Gaiman
72. “Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.” Joan Rivers
73. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.” Hal Borland
75. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
76. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi
77. “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” Margaret J. Wheatley
78. “One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” Paolo Coelho
79. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” John R. Dallas Jr.
80. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” J.P. Morgan
81. “Don’t ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!” Phil Wohl
82. “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
83. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” Germany Kent
84. “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” Anne Frank
85. “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” Cavett Robert
86. “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” Steven Spielberg
87. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” Neil Gaiman
88. “Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.” Brittany Murphy
89. “We are now at the New Year season. Isn’t this a peculiarly appropriate time to look ahead, to indulge in solemn thinking, to formulate life plans, to lay down a definite course to follow?” B.C. Forbes
90. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
91. “The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on our spiritual progress. Whether you set goals at the beginning of this year or not, it is certainly good to ask where you have been this year and whether you are heading in the right direction.” Christopher Perry
92. “On this new year, be someone you yourself can admire.” Pearl Aman
93. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that counts. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
94. “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person.” Benjamin Franklin
95. “This cannot be the year of talking. Of wishing. Of wanting. This has to be the year, you get it done!” Eric Thomas
96. “For eleven months and about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.” Arthur H. Sulzberger
97. “As the new year begins let it be a year where you try new things, learn new things and develop to the potential within you.” Theodore W. Higginsworth
98. “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
99. “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” Alex Morritt
100. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E. Cummings
101. “There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.” Zayn Malik
Final Thoughts
I wish you success, growth, and loads of peace this 2024!
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