Hello, 2021! New beginnings quotes about life to welcome in the new year

New year, new intentions, new energy. As we go into 2021, we hope these new beginnings quotes about life bring a renewed sense of excitement and purpose into this next year– and beyond.

(And if you need some inspiration for new year’s resolutions, we’ve got you covered: 8 Eco-friendly Resolutions We’re Going to (Actually) Keep This Year.)

20+ New beginnings quotes about life

1. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
2. “Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose — not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” – Anne Sullivan

3. “The past, the present and the future are really one: They are today.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

4.  “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
5. “Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
6. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginnings.”- Desmond Tutu
7. “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.” – Mimi Novic
8. “The journey of a thousand miles begin with one step.” – Lao Tzu
9. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
10. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
11. “You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinds on and plow right ahead.” – George Lucas
12. “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
13. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah

14. “The beginning is always today.” – Mary Shelley

15. “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.” Rainer Maria Rilke
16. “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. “It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.” – Cheryl Strayed
18. “Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.” – Paolo Coelho
19. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” -Meister Eckhart
20. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
21. “It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to start.” – Angelia Trinidad

22. “Forever is composed of nows.” – Emily Dickinson

23. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” – Louise Hay
24. “And suddenly you know; It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Meister Eckhart
25. “Be brave enough to suck at something new.” – unknown

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