Quit smoking. It’s easier said than done, but you will thank yourself for decades to come. — The Sun Journal

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn. — Hartley Coleridge

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. — Simon Newcomb.

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. — Brooks Atkinson

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. — James Agate

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back. — Tucker Carlson

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. — F.M. Knowles

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. — Martin Luther

Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to. — Bill Vaughan

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you, a better person. — Benjamin Franklin

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. — Sir Walter Scott

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. — Charles Lamb

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. — T.S. Eliot

Of all sound of all bells … most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. — Charles Lamb

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

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden

The new year begins in a snowstorm of white vows. — George William Curtis

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can not explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can not coach. —Bobby Bowden

The secret for success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. — Benjamin Disraeli

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. — Arthur H. Sulzberger

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I have stuck with it ever since. — Dave Beard

Let our New Year’s resolution be this, we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. — Goran Persson

You must leave your many millions, And the gay and festive crowd; Though you roll in royal billions, There’s no pocket in a shroud. — John Alexander Joyce