The new year is a time of new beginnings and fresh starts, as well as a time of reflection and restored promises and plans. Whether your resolution is to live a more sustainable life, build better relationships with loved ones or hiring cleaners to help free up your time, a little motivation will go a long way in turning those hopes into habits. Use the following quotes to get motivated and take advantage of all the opportunities the turning of a year offers:

1. “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
2. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” -John R. Dallas Jr.
4. “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” -Brad Paisley
5. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” —Norman Vincent Peale
6. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7. “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
8. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” —Walt Disney
9. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C.S. Lewis
10. “Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” —Pauline Kael
11. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.” -Alfred Tennyson
12. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert
13. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” -T.S Eliot
14. “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” —George Whitefield
15. “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” -Benjamin Franklin
16. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps
17. “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
18. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth
19. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
20. "I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." —Jimmy Dean