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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
Sep 29, 2025
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
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.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
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.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.