New Year Quotes
Edmund Burke, in 1791, gave the most useful advice for the occasion: you can never plan the future by the past. The page is built from the pages on change, hope, the future and time, with Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Horace and Byron supplying most of the entries. It has no New Year collection behind it.
If you want something about resolutions, the Change page has better material. The famous line about a small group of citizens changing the world, credited to Margaret Mead, is marked disputed. Nobody has found where it comes from.
Most quoted on new year:
Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery.
Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.
The glories and obstacles of the past are just a speck compared to the vastness of the future.