80 Best New Year’s Quotes 2023 – New Year Short Quotes

Can you believe 2022 is coming to an end already? As you welcome the new year, you’re likely feeling excited about a fresh start and new beginnings, and maybe even coming up with a practical New Year’s resolution to ensure 2023 is your best year yet. Another way to really get in the spirit is to read up on some of the best New Year’s quotes—including motivational quotes, funny quotes, and quotes that even make for great Instagram captions.

Whether you are busy planning a glamorous New Year’s Eve party or a trip to go see the ball drop, we’re sure you’ll ring in 2023 with tons of excitement and cheer. After all, in the wise words of Oprah Winfrey, another year brings “another chance to get it right.”

However you choose to celebrate the beginning of the new year, make it a memorable one with these funny, inspiring, and pop culture-inspired quotes to keep in the back of your mind or caption your Instagram posts with for the happiest, healthiest year yet.

“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” —Bill Vaughan
“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” —Neil Gaiman
“This year better be amazing. After last year and…well…the year before that one. It has to be amazing.”—unknown
“Less bitter, more glitter.”—unknown
“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.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.”—unknown
“My New Year’s resolution is to remember to write 2023 instead of 2022.”—unknown
“I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 2022!”—unknown
“Here’s to 2023 actually being a new year and not just 2020 part three.”—unknown
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” —Karen Kaiser Clark
“Merry fitmas and a happy new rear.”—unknown
“Let’s try this again…”—unknown
“Before I agree to 2023 I need to watch the trailer first.”—unknown
“Another year bites the dust.”—unknown
“8 p.m. is the new midnight.”—unknown
“Cheers to the people who love us, the losers who lost us, and the lucky ones who still get to meet us.”—unknown
“But first, champagne.”—unknown
“New year. Who dis?”—unknown
“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” —Vern McLellan
“Pop, clink, fizz! (That’s Alka Seltzer, not champagne.) ”—unknown
“Celebrate endings–for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Huie
“To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.” —Ben Johnson
“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
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
“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
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan
“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.” —Charles Kettering
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” —T.S. Eliot
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler
“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.” —Beyonce
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”—Plato
“You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” —Charlie Brown
“I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” —The Incredibles
“When that ball drops at midnight—and it will drop—let’s remember to be nice to each other, kind to each other. And not just tonight but all year long.” —New Year’s Eve
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
“You don’t roll the dice on New Year’s.”—A Lot Like Love
“And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” —When Harry Met Sally
“Yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it—you can either run from it or learn from it.” —The Lion King
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent
“Jonah, wake up. The ball’s dropping.” —Sleepless in Seattle
“Only creeps and crazy people go out on New Year’s Eve.” —Radio Days
“This is going to be just like senior year, only funner!” —Legally Blonde
“I thought one of the perks of having a family was that you didn’t have to spend New Year’s Eve alone with Chinese food.” —Sex and the City
“It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.” —Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
“525,600 minutes. How do you measure a year in your life?” —Rent
“If you focus on what you’ve left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.” —Ratatouille
“A new heart for a New Year, always!” —Charles Dickens
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” ―Hillary DePiano
“Happy New Year. May we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbor is a friend.” —ABBA
“So listen, dear, won’t you meet me here, while I’m bringin’ in a brand new year?” —B.B. King
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous New Year by believing.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
“I got to perk up a little funky new year.” —The Eagles
“Let’s watch the old year die with a fond goodbye.” —Bing Crosby
“It’s the final countdown.” —Europe
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”—Steven Spielberg
“A long December and there’s reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.” —Counting Crows
“Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.” —Natasha Bedingfield.
“A little party never killed nobody, so we gon’ dance until we drop.” —Fergie
“Thank you, next!” —Ariana Grande
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coehlo
“Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight when it’s exactly twelve o’clock that night.” —Ella Fitzgerald
“Or maybe baby, I’ll see you on New Year’s Day.” —Sugarland
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” —Anne Frank
“Here comes the jackpot question in advance. What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve?” —Kacey Musgraves
“The best is yet to come.” —Frank Sinatra
“Kiss me at midnight. Dance into the morning light. Party into the new year.”—NSYNC
“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.” —Melody Beattie
“Let’s toast to new beginnings, raise our glass and say, for all of our tomorrows and what was yesterday.” —Jon Bon Jovi
“Raise your glass and we’ll have a cheer, My dear acquaintance, a happy new year, happy new year.” —Regina Spektor
“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
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” —Socrates
“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
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”—David Bowie
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”—Buddha
“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

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Arielle Weg

Arielle Weg is the associate editor at Prevention and loves to share her favorite wellness and nutrition obsessions. She previously managed content at The Vitamin Shoppe, and her work has also appeared in Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Cooking Light, MyRecipes, and more. You can usually find her taking an online workout class or making a mess in the kitchen, creating something delicious she found in her cookbook collection or saved on Instagram.

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