-- Charles Lamb
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left."
-- Charles Lamb
"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
"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty."
-- John Selden
"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
"The merry year is born/ Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. "
-- Hartley Coleridge
"From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humour lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining."
-- Leonard Bernstein
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart. "
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"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
"Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
-- Thomas Mann
"Good habits result from resisting temptation.-proverb."
--Proverb
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. "
-- Chinese proverb
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
-- General George S. Patton
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
-- Henry Ford
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
-- Yoda
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-- Thomas Edison
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
--Mark Twain
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
-- Andrew Marvell
"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."
-- Euripides "Wisdom begins in wonder."
-- Socrates
"Each age has deemed the new-born year/The fittest time for festal cheer."
-- Sir Walter Scott
"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. "
-- George William Curtis
"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."
-- Anais Nin
"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
-- Jean Paul Richter
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
-- Bill Vaughn
"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."
-- James Agate
