From starting a new diet or setting new exercise goals, focusing on self-love and personal growth, or kicking old habits, many of us commit to starting something new each January 1. The new year gives us a new opportunity to turn a new page and start fresh, and it also allows us to reflect upon where we came from and look ahead to what we want to accomplish in our lives. The commencement of a new calendar year isn’t the only time when people start a new chapter of their lives. Beginning a new job (or even retiring from an old one!), moving to a different city, embarking on parenthood, or making a lifestyle change are all the kinds of big milestones that bring up anxiety and anticipation as people break out of their comfort zone and forge a new path. If you are about to embark on a new journey yourself, we hope this collection of quotes about new beginnings inspires and motivates you in your journey ahead. There are quotes about new starts, wise words about welcoming each morning as a new day, encouraging messages about taking a leap of faith, and quotes that will inspire you to make the most out of the new year ahead. Cheers to a new you!
105 Quotes About New Beginnings
- “The beginning is always today.” — Mary Shelley
- “Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.” — Paulo Coelho
- “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
- “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
- “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford
- “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper and re-imagines the world.” — Malcolm Gladwell
- “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” ― L.M. Montgomery
- “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Hermann Hesse
- “I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.” ― Oprah Winfrey
- “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ― Meister Eckhart
- “Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.” — Douglas Pagels
- “There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive
- “I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey—a journey that requires a plan.” — Vivian Jokotade
- “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, Confessions of a Wallflower
- “There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.” — Bamigboye Olurotimi
- “To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.” ― Tarang Sinha, We Will Meet Again…
- “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.” — Richie Norton RELATED: The Best Inspiring Quotes About Change
- “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” — C. JoyBell C.
- “It’s never too late to begin for one who is on the path of making the most of the moment. Where you are is good enough place to begin.” ― Abraham Omorogiuwa
- “When night fails you, look toward the morning.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- “Every day is a brand-new day, to start over again and live as if nothing has happened yesterday.” ― Shaa Zainol
- “Today is not necessarily a new beginning. However, it is a chance to do something new with yesterday’s beginning.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha
- “Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.” ― Germany Kent
- “The future begins today.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “Man starts over again every day, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.” — Emil Cioran
- “The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.” — Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
- “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It
- “New day, new hopes, new life!” — Lailah Gifty Akita
- “All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.” — Shannon L. Alder
- “Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too.” — Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
- “I feel a new beginning coming towards me and I’m running to it with open arms." — Unknown
- “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ― Seneca
- “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” ― Louis L’Amour
- “Every morning’s dew is a fresh breath of a new beginning.” ― Jessica Edouard
- “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” ― Joel Osteen
- “Each day is filled with promise, potential, and possibility.” ― Tony Curl RELATED: 150 Good Morning Quotes to Start Your Day
- “Right at the end of the road, a new way will be revealed.” ― Hiral Nagda
- “Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.” ― Dennis E. Adonis
- “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
- “Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.” ― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
- “Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.” ― Stephen King
- “With this morning’s sunrise comes a day of things that have never been.” ― Toni Sorenson
- “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” — Barbara Shur
- “Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.” ― TemitOpe Ibrahim
- “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
New Beginnings Quotes to Inspire
- “New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” ― April Mae Monterrosa
- “Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.” ― Dwight Howard
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
- “No one can ever take your memories from you—each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day.” — Catherine Pulsifer
- “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale
- “Every day is a chance to change your life.” — Unknown
- “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot 58.“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” — Anne Sullivan
- “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” ― Ralph Blum
- “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ― Plato, The Republic RELATED: 100 Inspirational Quotes
- “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton
- “New beginnings are exciting! They become exciting to us because they offer the promise of hope, the anticipation of change in our lives, and the prospect that our dreams will indeed come true!” — Squire Rushnell, When God Winks on New Beginnings
- “Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” ― John Dewey, Democracy and Education
- “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” — Desmond Tutu 65, “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.” — Muhammad Ali
- “Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.” — Cora Coralina
- “The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.” — Marquise du Deffand
- “Let’s forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.” — Shahbaz Sharif
- “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.” — Marsha Petrie Sue
- “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “Let your first success be just a beginning. Let your dreams chase you.” — Amit Ahlawat, Seven Ways To Sustained Happiness
- “Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.” — Rachel Joyce
- “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin
- “Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan
- “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” — Alan Cohen
- “The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.” ― J.R. Rim
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “A Sunrise is God’s way of saying, “Let’s start again.” — Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose 80.“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close." — John Ruskin
- “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” ― J. B. Priestley
- “If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
- “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” — Demosthenes
- “The fear of failure is a common motivation killer. People don’t try something new because they fear they will fail at it.” — Cary Bergeron
- “It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet.” — Jennifer Ritchie Payette
- “New beginnings bring new possibilities. A chance to this time get it right.” — Lynn M. McHale, There’s Got to Be a Better Way
- “One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a sure beginning." — Maya Angelou
- “It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.” — Mel Gibson
- “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.” — Mimi Novic
- “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” — Guy Finley
- “Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” — Elana K. Arnold
- “Every day is a new opportunity to begin again. Every day is your birthday.” ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy
- “Rock bottom is the end of what wasn’t true enough. Begin again and build something Truer.” — Glennon Doyle
- “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford
- “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.” — Tony Robbins
- “Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.” — Natalya Neidhart
- “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” — Carrie Underwood
- “Every morning is a chance at a new day.” — Marjorie Pay Hinckle
New Beginnings Quotes About the New Year
- “There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.” — Bamigboye Olurotimi
- “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
- “Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
- “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan
- “Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.” — Avina Celeste
- “New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future.” — Munia Khan Next, check out these 50 New Year wishes to share with your family and friends!
