Monday, December 28, 2009

Getting ready for the New Year? Let these 12 New Year's quotes help you make your resolution stick

2009 is almost at an end. What are you resolving to do this year? Whether you desire to change or stop a bad habit, or you resolve to change a part of your personality... let these New Year's quotes inspire you into 2010.

1. "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. " ~Bill Vaughn

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

3. "New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

4. "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

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. "We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

8. "People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas" ~Anonymous

9. "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man." ~Benjamin Franklin

10. "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." ~Hal Borland

11. "But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits." ~Andre Gide

12. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." ~John Burroughs

Celebrate 2010 in style and remember these New Year quotes as you dance your way into another year. Happy New Year!

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