Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

 —Oscar Wilde

We spend January 1 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

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

—Anaïs Nin

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

 —Brooks Atkinson

New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

 —Mark Twain

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

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.

 —John Selden

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

—Benjamin Franklin

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

 —Bill Vaughan

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

 —author unknown

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

 —Andre Gide

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

It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.

–William Thomas

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

 –George William Curtis

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.

—F.M. Knowles