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Quotes and Toasts for a New Year and New Beginnings

Besides weddings and retirements, New Year is ripe for quotes and toasts.  Here are some quotes and toasts that are appropriate for the new year and new beginnings.


Anonymous Quotes and Toasts for the New Year and New Beginnings

  • Here’s a toast to the future, a toast to the past, and a toast to our friends, far and near. May the future be pleasant, the past a bright dream; may our friends remain faithful and dear
  • 2022 is the beginning of anything you want.
  • Here’s a toast to the future, a toast to the past, and a toast to our friends, far and near. May the future be pleasant, the past a bright dream; may our friends remain faithful and dear.
  • Here’s to our friends and the strength to put up with them.
  • Cheers to you, Cheers to me, Have a Happy New Year’s Eve.
  • Cheers to a New Year
  • 365 new days –  365 new chances
  • The New Year brings 52 Mondays to start
  • The best is yet to come
  • This is your year to sparkle.
  • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.
  • Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter. 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of Joy, 525600 minutes of good luck and 31536000 seconds of happiness.  Happy New Year
  • You know all those things you’ve always wanted to do? You should go do them.
  • And so the adventure begins
  • Page 1 of 365.
  • Twelve new chapters. 365 new chances
  • The Year is yours. What will you do with it?

Irish Quotes and Toasts

  • As you slide down the banisters of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.
  • And if you must drink, drink with all of us because we love you
  • As we start the New Year, let’s get down on our knees to thank God we’re on our feet.
  • Love to one, friendship to many, and goodwill to all.
  • In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.
  • May we all be alive at this same time next year.
  •  May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
  • May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.
  • Here’s to a long life and a merry one.  A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold beer–and another one!
  • May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.
  • In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.
  • May we all be alive at this same time next year.
  • May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
  • May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
  • And if you must drink, drink with all of us because we love you
  • As we start the New Year, let’s get down on our knees to thank God we’re on our feet.
  • Love to one, friendship to many, and goodwill to all.

Attributed Quotes and Toasts

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.  ~Michael Josephson

Each age has deemed the newborn year the fittest time for festal cheer. ~Sir Walter Scott

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

Write it in your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. ~C. S. Lewis

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got. ~ William Feather

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C.S. Lewis

The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

Life is like a book.  Some chapters are sad, some happy, and some exciting.  But if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds.  Wishing you the best chapter in this coming New Year. ~Leticia Rae

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever. ~Walt Disney

New Year. New feels, New breathe. New Chances. Same Dreams, fresh starts. I dare you to believe in yourself. You deserve all things magic ~author Overexclusive

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

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 Years Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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