Resolutions For 2017: Inspirational Quotes To Ring In New Year's With Motivation

New Year, new you. Whether you're planning on making a big change in 2017 or you don't buy into the idea of a resolution, there are words of wisdom to help you tackle the new year. Here are inspirational, motivational and funny phrases compiled from Goodreads and BrainyQuote to guide you smoothly into 2017.

"Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you'd like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious and subconscious level. Goals give our lives direction." Melody Beattie

"If you asked me for my New Year resolution, it would be to find out who I am." Cyril Cusack

"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

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something." Neil Gaiman

"Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year -- the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer." Peggy Toney Horton

"May the New Year bring you the courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue so that I triumph even when I fall." Aleister Crowley

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word." Goran Persson

"I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve. They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives." V.C. Andrews

"Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another." Alex Morritt

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better person." Benjamin Franklin

"My New Year's resolution list usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds." Nia Vardalos

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet, a new backbone, new ears and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective." G.K. Chesterton

"New Year's resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." James Agate