When entering a new year, we look for any reason to feel inspired. We hope these quotes leave you with a fresh perspective to begin anew, in whatever way they feel meaningful to you.



“For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning." ― T.S. Eliot


“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” ― Brad Paisley


“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ― Oprah Winfrey


“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


“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ― Ellen Goodman



“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke


“In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan


"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings." ― Jonathan Huie


"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect." ― Alan Cohen


"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


Happy New Year, from your friends at Scooter’s Coffee!