Dear Annie: Inspirational quotes to start off the new year on the right foot

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy new year. I hope it is filled with lots of joy and love. Below are some quotes that I put together in hopes that they inspire you to live your best life. With an open mind, an open heart and a sense of wonder, each year is a new beginning to start fresh. Remind yourself that the best is yet to come.

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — CS Lewis

“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — CS Lewis

“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

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: / The year is going, let him go; / Ring out the false, ring in the true.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — TS Eliot

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — EE Cummings

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

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — JP Morgan

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates

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

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” — TS Elliot, “Little Gidding”

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘it will be happier.’” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” — Anne Frank

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller

“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. Vaughan

“Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

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