Be inspired to restart your life this New Year with these encouraging and inspiring quotes on New Beginnings.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell
Let every day be the first day of the rest of your life, but especially let today be a new beginning. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. – Epictetus
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu
My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. – from “Forrest Gump”
Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. – Anonymous
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
I set my own course through the ocean of life. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell
I gather strength from life’s storms. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell
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
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. – Mark Twain
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela
Let us all meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. – Mother Teresa
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent van Gogh
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
All glory comes from daring to begin. – Eugene F. Ware
Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. – Ralph Blum
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. – John Steinbeck
I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers. There aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. – W. Clement Stone
Begin today. Declare outloud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Start wherever you are and start small. – Rita Baily
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. – Henry Ward Beecher
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. – Bruce Springsteen
I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully. – Alexandra Stoddard
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. – Igor Stravinsky
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. – Liz Smith
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. – William Bridges
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step. – Julia Cameron
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are. – Julia Cameron
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr. Seuss
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 Sher
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. – Buddha
All great things have small beginnings. – Peter Senge
When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. – Eileen Caddy
You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. – Barbara Sher
The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. – Mike Dooley
Don’t look further for answers: be the solution. You were born with everything you need to know. Make a promise to stop getting in the way of the blessing that you are. Take a deep breath, remember to have fun, and begin. – Jonathan H. Ellerby
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
Only begin and then the mind grows heated. Only begin and the task will be completed. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will never win if you never begin. – Robert H. Schuller
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. – Alan Cohen
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. – Meister Eckhart
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Saint Francis of Assisi
I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps. – Theodore Roosevelt –quote- If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. – Rumi
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. – Marilyn Grey
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it. – Wendy Kopp
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. – Rumi
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. – Charles Lamb
Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. – Louis L’Amour
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. – Frank Herbert
To be born is to start the journey towards death. – Madeleine L’Engle
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tsu
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. – Gilda Radner
Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake. – Marie Beyon Ray
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. – Ivy Baker Priest
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. Priestly
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
Earth, ourselves, breathe and awaken, leaves are stirring, all things moving, new day coming, life renewing. – Pawnee Prayer
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. – Nido Qubein
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson
And you? When will you begin your long journey into yourself? – Rumi
