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
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Edith Lovejoy Pierce
We spend January 1 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.
- Ellen Goodman
If you want something you have never had, be prepared to do something you have never done.
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
- Doris Mortman
Evermore people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
- Viktor Frankl
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
There are two kinds of pain: pain of risk and pain of regret.
- Kare Anderson
If opportunity does not knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
