A collection of quotes on the topic of anniversary, new year, news, year.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you.”
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
This is actually a quotation http://books.google.com/books?id=FUIHmRHf8SUC&lpg=PA130&dq=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&f=false from a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Peaceful_Warrior, by Dan Millman.
Misattributed
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Variant: Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings”
Widely circulated on the internet, but no actual text to tie it back to Eckhart, as of yet.
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Meister Eckhart / Disputed
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
Variant: For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
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Source: Four Quartets
“Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.”
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed
“The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.”
Source: (1932), p.1
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
“The opportunity of your life, it's you.”
Original: (it) L'occasione della tua vita, sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Works and Days
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
9 November 1665 http://books.google.com/books?id=azIEAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Strange+to+see+how+a+good+dinner+and+feasting+reconciles+everybody%22&pg=PA120#v=onepage
Diary
Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
“It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy… Let's go exploring!”
Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
“Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.”
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great”
Earliest citation found in Google Books is from 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=bdTko5oHTd4C&pg=PA25&dq=%22give+up+the+good+to+go+for+the+great%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH2e_QivXLAhUps4MKHdf0A9wQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22give%20up%20the%20good%20to%20go%20for%20the%20great%22&f=false, where it is attributed to country-music singer Kenny Rogers. Not found attributed to Rockefeller until 2006 https://books.google.com/books?id=F7OGT9WTiPQC&pg=PA24&dq=%22give+up+the+good%22+%22go+for+the+great%22+rockefeller&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw_rb9ivXLAhXrmoMKHbgHBqkQ6wEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=%22give%20up%20the%20good%22%20%22go%20for%20the%20great%22%20rockefeller&f=false.
Disputed
Variant: Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
Variant: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”
“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
Unknown, but also attributed to Les Brown, a motivational speaker. Commonly attributed to C.S. Lewis, but never with a primary source listed.
Misattributed
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
Unidentified page
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“Never tell your resolution beforehand.”
Wisdom.
Table Talk (1689)
“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.”
October. A Sonnet http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page115 (1866)
“There is no knowledge that is not power.”
Old Age
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”
How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything (1970).
“Life is not living, but living in health.”
Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.
VI, 70.
Variant translations:
It is not life to live, but to be well.
Life's not just being alive, but being well.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Attributed
“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
