"When all else is lost, the future still remains." - Christian Nevell Bovee

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past." - Henry Ward Beecher

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul." - G K Chesterson

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin

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

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughan

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time." - Jean Paul Richter

"All glory comes from daring to begin." - Eugene F Ware