Inspirational Quotes for New Year's

[tiredmommy]

Hi everyone,

I came across some great quotes and thought I'd share, please add more:

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

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

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base.
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~Cecil

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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~Albert Einstein

New habits make new horizons.
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~Grenville Kleiser

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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~George Eliot

When was the last time you did something for the first time?
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~Sally Edwards

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
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~Michael Altshuler

 

[Fran]

Thanks TM, I loved them all. This is my favorite today. I keep trying to do something new just so I don't become so darn inflexible in attitude.

"When was the last time you did something for the first time?
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~Sally Edwards"

 

[Nomad]

Loved these...many thanks for posting them. GREAT IDEA!
I think my fave is "The bad news is time flies. The good new is you are the pilot."

The one Fran mentioned is my second fave...so very thought provoking.

Received these today:

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.
- Claude M. Bristol, 1891 - 1951
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
- Henry Moore, 1898 - 1986
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790
Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
- Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888