This year went by quickly… Am I right?

We barely had the time to breathe or to make sense of everything.

Here are a few quotes to get yourself back together and motivate you for the New Year.

This year is going to be your best year yet. Each step that you take will help you overcome your fears and lead you closer to your goals and make you more excited for the year to come.

1. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Carl Bard

2. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

3. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations. – Michael K. Williams

5. Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. – Robin Sharma

6. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

7. Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined. – Andrew Hendrixson

8. Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein

9. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

10. Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan

11. Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. – Brian Tracy

12. Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you. – Grace Coddington

13. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi

15. Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Dr. Robert Schuller

16. Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. – Helen Keller

17. The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir

18. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve

19. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. – Charles Kettering

20. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. – Mary Kay Ash

21. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

22. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

23. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

24. A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

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

26. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. – Teddy Roosevelt

27. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

28. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. – Tim Ferriss

29. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard

30. Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

31. Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. – Victor Kiam

32. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

33. Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

34. Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso

35. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

36. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

37. It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

38. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

39. Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. – Doug Ivester

40. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. – Epictetus

41. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller

42. It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed. – Doe Zantamata

43. If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit

44. It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius

45. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

46. Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher

47. Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life is too short to think small. – Tim Ferriss

48. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. – Henry Ford

49. The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. – Zig Ziglar

50. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

51. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. – Eleanor Roosevelt

52. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

53. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. – Jim Rohn

54. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein

55. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

56. You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. – Maya Angelou

57. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

58. Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll

59. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Jimmy Dean

60. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

61. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

62. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein

63. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey

64. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford

65. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

66. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

67. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

68. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama

69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

70. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

72. We become what we think about. – Earl Nightingale

73. Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

74. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs

75. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

76. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn

77. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

78. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

79. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

80. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. – Aristotle

81. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie

82. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

83. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

84. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. – Tony Robbins

85. You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. – Robert Anthony

86. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill

87. Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald

88. Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. – Henry Ward Beecher

89. The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. – Nelson Boswell

90. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

91. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche

92. We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. – Virginia Satir

93. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

94. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle

95. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis

96. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown

97. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali

98. You will succeed because most people are lazy. – Shahir Zag

99. The grass is greener where you water it. – Neil Barringham

100. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. – Earl Nightingale

101. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. – Seth Godin

102. If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. – Seth Godin 

103. If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney

104. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

105. Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. – George Whitefield

106. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

107. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. – Babe Ruth

108. Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

109. When you know what you want,and you want it badly enough,you’ll find a way to get it. – Jim Rohn

110. Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what. – Spryte Loriano

111. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

112. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan

113. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier

114. ll progress takes place outside the comfort zone. – Michael John Bobak

115. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin

116. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

117. Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

118. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins

119. You can’t give up! When you give up, you’re like everybody else! – Chris Evert

120. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho

121. Victory is not always winning the battle…but rising every time you fall. – Napoleon Bonaparte

122. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. – Earl Nightingale

123. Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. – Mary Lou Retton

124. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia

125. One finds limits by pushing them. – Herbert Simon

126. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Sir Winston Churchill

127. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hepburn

128. Success is not what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennett

129. Good is the enemy of great. – Jim Collins

130. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. – Alexander the Great

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