My Favourite Quotes on New Year Resolutions

beawolf090900003Here are some of my favourite quotes on new year resoultions.

  1. Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.  ~Author Unknown
  2. Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.  ~John Selden
  3. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~Oprah Winfrey
  4. 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
  5. New Year’s Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  ~Mark Twain
  6. Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.  ~Oscar Wilde
  7. But can one stillmake resolutions when one is over forty?  I live according to twenty-year-old habits.  ~Andre Gide
  8. It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.  ~William Thomas
  9. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.  ~Joey Adams
  10. He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. ~F.M. Knowles
  11. I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.  ~Henry Moore
  12. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.  Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.  ~Thomas Mann
  13. I made no resolutions for the New Year.  The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.  ~Anaïs Nin
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