I’m so excited to begin this New Year 2019 with you!  I compiled these inspirational and motivational quotes to help you start the New Year off right.  I hope that 2019 brings you much prosperity and happiness!

After reading these quotes, be sure to check out last year’s post called New Year, New You: A Different Approach to Resolutions.

Each year’s regret are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the new year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. Vaughn

New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. ~Alex Morritt

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year. ~Vern McLellan

New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way. ~Auliq Ice

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

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. ~Helen Keller

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on. ~Hal Borland

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas. ~Charles Kettering

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. ~Brad Paisley

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

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

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Celebrate what you want to see more of. ~Tom Peters

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C.S. Lewis

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now. ~Dr. Phil McGraw

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

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, “It will be happier.” ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. ~Senaca

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ~Abraham Lincoln

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~Thomas Jefferson

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. ~Cavett Robert

The beginning is the most important part of the work. ~Plato

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ~William Shakesphere

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ~Maya Angelou

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ~Winston Churchill

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~Abraham Lincoln

You do not find the happy life. You make it. ~Camilla Eyring Kimball