85 Inspirational End of Year Quotes to Reflect & Start Fresh

Get ready to wrap up the year with some of the best inspirational end-of-the-year quotes that will leave you feeling inspired and prepared to take on 2025!

I’m not really into the whole “New Year’s resolutions” thing—they never seem to stick. But I love reflecting on wise words that remind me of what I’ve done or overcome and what’s possible in the year ahead.

Here’s a collection of thoughtful quotes to close out the year and start fresh. Whether you’re celebrating big victories or quietly patting yourself on the back for making it through, I hope these words lift you up and give you a dose of encouragement for the year ahead!

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Why Quotes for End of The Year

Why not end the year with a little inspiration boost? As the year wraps up, getting caught up in all the highs, lows, and everything in between is easy.

Looking back on the good (and even the tough stuff) can be a great way to appreciate how much you’ve grown.

These quotes add motivation and help you head into the new year feeling more positive and grateful. Think of them as a reminder of how far you’ve come and a little nudge toward all the good things to come!

Ways to Use These Quotes All Year Long

Rather than just reading these quotes once, here are a few ideas to keep them handy whenever you need them:

Vision Boards: Add a favourite quote to your 2025 vision board to keep your intentions front and center.
Journal Prompts: Use these quotes as prompts for self-reflection or goal-setting in your journal.
Pin It: Save any quotes that speak to you on Pinterest or share them with a friend who could use a lift.
Print It Out: If a quote resonates, print it out and place it somewhere you’ll see it often, like your wallet, workspace, or bedside.
DIY Projects: Turn your favourite quotes into a personal art project! Make bookmarks or greeting cards, add them to woodwork, or make a mini wall print as a fun, meaningful reminder.
Social Media: Share a powerful and encouraging quote on your Instagram or other social media accounts. Social media often spews negativity and hatred, so seeing something positive and uplifting is always refreshing!

85+ Inspirational End of Year Quotes to Reflect On

I sectioned these inspirational end-of-the-year quotes into six categories to help you find what you’re looking for quicker, as follows:

Inspirational End of The Year Quotes
Quotes On Year-End Reflection
End-of-the-Year Motivational Quotes
Short End Of The Year Quotes
Funny New Years Quotes
Hopeful End-of The Years Quotes

Inspirational End of The Year Quotes

I love these quotes as they excited me and made me look forward to the new year. Our mindset is the most powerful tool we can use to make this a good year, so I hope these wise words inspire you to have a more positive outlook for the days ahead.

1. What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.

Anne Frank

2. There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C.S.Lewis

3. 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

4. The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

Charles Dickens

5. As the new year begins let it be a year where you try new things, learn new things and develop to the potential within you.

Theodore W. Higginsworth

6. Plant seeds every single day that you know who you are, you know what you’re about, and you know what goals you’ve set for yourself.

Stephen Curry

7. When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

Shauna Niequist

8. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Brad Paisley

9. Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

10. Don’t ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!

Phil Wohl

11. And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rauber Maria Rilke

12. Start over, my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to.

Madalyn Beck

13. Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein

14. In the New Year, never forget to thank 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

15. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Oprah Winfrey

16. We will open the book. It’s pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and it’s first chapter is New Year’s Day.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Quotes On Year-End Reflection

These quotes are great for reflecting on and thinking about how you can improve or do things differently. Or maybe you had a great year, and there’s not much to improve on, and that’s fine, too! Personal growth isn’t always about massive changes but the small steps and effort you make!

17. Take the lessons you’ve learned and apply them to your next journey.

Unknown

18. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

19. The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.

Unknown

20. It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

21. The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

22. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you are a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

23. For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.

Gisele Bundchen

24. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

25. New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately, we write it. The choice is ours.

Alex Morritt

26. Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless.

Maxime Legace

27. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

28. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Seneca

29. Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly.

Bear Grylls

30. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

31. Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

John R. Dallas Jr.

32. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

Rumi

End-of-the-Year Motivational Quotes

Do you find you need a boost of motivation for the new year? Personally, I like to choose one word for the year that keeps me motivated and on track with my goals. These quotes are reminders to take action, no matter how small, to continue to evolve into the best version of yourself.

33. Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.

Paulo Coelho

34. The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

35. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Michael Altshuler

36. Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.

Avina Celeste

37. The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

Eleanor Roosevelt

38. Time passes, yesterday has gone forever but tomorrow never comes. Let’s make the most of today.

Robert Ashby

39. Maybe this year, we ought to walk through rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

Ellen Goodman

40. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

41. I’ve been fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week, and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.

Darrell Hammond

42. Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Roy. T. Bennett

43. You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

Steve Harvey

44. Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Mark Twain

45. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Alan Cohen

46. Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time.

Ann Landers

47. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

48. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

Short End Of The Year Quotes

I always love a simple but powerful quote to encourage me. The quotes below are perfect for a bit of encouragement; they’re short and sweet but to the point.

49. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Albert Einstein

50. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

51. It doesn’t matter where you came from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

52. Stop trying to press rewind. It’s life, not a movie.

Unknown

53. Paths are made by walking.

Franz Kafka

54. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

56. Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Rose Kennedy

57. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Addair

58. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

59. Every ending is a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time.

Mitch Albom

60. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

61. The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

62. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

63. The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King

64. The best is yet to come.

Frank Sinatra

Funny New Years Quotes

I can never resist adding fun to my posts with comical quotes that make you laugh out loud and, at the same time, give you clever food for thought! 😂 🎉

65. Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

Bill Vaughan

66. It’s time to make old mistakes in new ways!

Unknown

67. Last year’s resolution was to lose 20 pounds by Christmas. Only 30 pounds to go.

68. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!

Joey Adams

69. A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Unknown

70. You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time, I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

Charlie Brow

71. No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.

Drake

Hopeful End-of The Years Quotes

Finally, I couldn’t end this post without sharing some wise quotes that will inspire you and give you oodles of hope for the new year. And these days, who doesn’t need some? On a personal note, my hope comes from my faith, and #74 below is one of my favourite Bible verses. It always makes me smile and gives me peace, which is also one of my hopes for you. ❤️ 🙏

72. Whatever happened over this past year, be thankful for where it brought you. Where you are is where you’re meant to be!

Mandy Hale

73. May the blessings of God be upon us from the beginning of the year to its end.

Lailah Gifty Akita

74. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29:11

75. Believe you can and you’re half way there.

Theodore Roosevelt

76. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

77. The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.

Josiyah Martin

78. If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coehlo

79. What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.

Vern McLellan

80. Going through things you never thought you’d go through will only take you places you never thought you’d get to.

Morgan Harper Nichols

81. Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

82. God is so good to give us new days and New Years since He knows we need so many times to start over.

Lacey Sturm

83. We should celebrate every year that we made it through.

Ellen DeGeneres

84. Let’s celebrate the inception of improved us, not the new year.

Mohith Agadi

85. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me, and I’m feeling good.

Nina Simone

86. Life isn’t perfect, any failures you have are actually learning moments. They teach us how to grow and evolve.

Phillipa Soo

87. So, I close my eyes to old ends, and open my heart to new beginnings.

Mandy Hale

Looking Ahead: Let These Inspirational End-of-Year Quotes Inspire 2025

I hope these quotes helped you reflect on how far you’ve come this year. Remember, each new year brings a fresh start—with 365 days packed with possibilities, growth, and little joys along the way.

I wish you a fantastic new year! I hope it brings you closer to your dreams and is filled with peace, joy, and purpose, even in tough times. No matter what’s ahead, here’s to a year that feels just right for you!