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- When the shadows begin to lengthen on the afternoon of December 31st we experience a feeling of buoyancy as we hurry home. The air is already charged with hope for the New Year, now so close at hand. – Author Unknown
- “The ending of year is also a time when serious people want real changes in their lives. Change offers a fresh new start, a new beginning, and rightly so.” – Boomy Tokan,
- Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind. – Joel Osteen
- All the joy and love that surrounds the season leaves us and others wondering; wondering; “Why can’t life be this way all year long?” – Claude Jennings
- Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind. – Joel Osteen
- All the joy and love that surrounds the season leaves us and others wondering; wondering; “Why can’t life be this way all year long?” – Claude Jennings
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
- Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it. —Rafiki, The Lion King
- If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe. —Abraham Lincoln
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
- Fight till the last gasp. —William Shakespeare, Henry VI
- Do or do not. There is no try. —Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
- Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. —Judy Garland
- The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. —Charles Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. —Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
- When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. —Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend. — Walt Disney
- So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
- Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.—Albert Einstein
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- Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower. —Steve Jobs
- I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
- The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real. it is possible… it’s yours.—Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing. —Aristotle
- It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.— Muhammad Ali
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.—John Quincy Adams
- Speak softly and carry a big stick. —Theodore Roosevelt
- Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.―Mark Twain
- Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind—and the mind is adaptable.—Daniel Kish
- Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn’t make a difference in the world. I think that’s just a horrible thing. —John Skoll
- When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.– Eileen Caddy
- Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. – Prince
- Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. – Dale Turner
- Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next. –Mie Hansson
- New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. – Lao Tzu
- The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. –Mike Dooley
- Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Carl Bard
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.– Walt Disney
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