“Begin with the end in mind.”
- Stephen Covey
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”
- Charles Lamb
“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”
- John Selden
“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
“The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!”
- Edward Payson Powell
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
- Oprah Winfrey
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“… on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
- T.S. Elliot
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.”
- Jean Paul Richter
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
- Buddha
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
“It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.”
- William Thomas
Happy 2012,
Cliff Dunn
- Cliff Dunn
Cliff Dunn is the Contributing Editor Florida Agenda. He can be reached at Editor@FloridaAgenda.com
