Inspirational Quotes for a Fresh Start in 2021

Having trouble sticking to your New Year's resolutions already? Change can be difficult, and sometimes you need some inspirational quotes to help you work toward your goals. Lucky for us, some of the world's best writers and thinkers have tackled the annual New Year's shift, and their thoughts on the matter will help you get in the right frame of mind for the transition into a new decade.

With every new year comes a clean slate — so what will you do with this fresh start? Let these positive quotes about change, new beginnings and optimism from Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and even William Shakespeare motivate you to focus on all of the wonderful opportunities that this new year will bring. Without further ado, here are some New Year's quotes to motivate you to live your best life this year.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.

You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.

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.

The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!

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.

Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it.

In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate with your dreams.

Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

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Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

What the new years brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

It's a new dawn

It's a new day

It's a new life,

for me,

And I'm feeling good.

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

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

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

Each year's regret are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provide this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

You do not find the happy life. You make it.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.

Strength shows not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.

Tomorrow is the first black page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

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

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.

New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle Age is when you're forced to.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier."

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.