New Years Eve Inspirational Quotes by Ellen Goodman, Mark Twain, Neil Gaiman, W. H. Auden, Brooks Atkinson, Aleister Crowley and many others.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
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.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding… and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: вЂTo rise above little things’.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.