88 New Year Resolution Quotes For Yogis

The New Year marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. With this comes a time for reflection, thought and the desire for personal growth and change.

These desires often come in the form of New Year resolutions – but, sticking to them can be tough.

Transformation, growth, and perseverance can be difficult to dedicate yourself to for a whole new year – and sometimes you need some words of wisdom to keep you motivated and remind you what you’re doing it all for.

Whatever it is you’re hoping to manifest in 2022, we’ve got the new year resolution quotes to help inspire and motivate you along the way.

In this article, we’ll introduce you to the best new year resolution quotes for:

New year Resolutions Quotes for Self-Love and confidence

May you be content with yourself just the way you are. – Sainte Therese de Lisieux

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. — Dr. Seuss

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. – Richard Kline

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept. – Anna Taylor

​​No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. – Iyanla Vanzant

Love yourself, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults. – Les Brown

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde

As is our confidence, so is our capacity. – William Hazlitt

Quotes for commitments and perserverence

Fall seven times and stand up eight. — Japanese Proverb

Grab today by the horns and make the most of it as you can. Do that enough times and you’ll start to see signs that your todays are getting better. – Dalai Llama

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. — Arthur Ashe

Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden

It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela 

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King

 Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford 

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. – Confucius 

Quotes for reflection and Healing

A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. — Nathan Gilkarov

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. – Heraclitus

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. – Buddha

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. – Rumi

I close my eyes in order to see. – Paul Gauguin

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Seneca 

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you. – Andrea Dykstra

Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf. – Jonatan Martensson

Healing yourself is connected with healing others. – Yoko Ono

Quotes for transformation and change

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao Tzu

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — C.S. Lewis

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start. – Nido Qubein

How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world… – Anne Frank

I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written. – Juansen Dizon

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.- Aldous Huxley

Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? – Bob Marley

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

Quotes for Acceptance and forgiveness

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. – Jewel

Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now? – Richard Carlson

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. – Buddha

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. – Maya Angelou

There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen

Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

True forgiveness is when you can say ‘Thank you for that experience’ – Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is healing…especially forgiving yourself. – Alyson Noël

Quotes for Creativity and success

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. – Brene Brown

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it – Henry David Thoreau

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Quotes for faith and Freedom

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo

May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. – Sainte Therese de Lisieux

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. – Aung San Suu Kyi

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. – Peter Marshall

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler

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

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too. – Jennae Cecelia

Quotes for strength and courage

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear… – George Addair

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. — Camus

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. – Bob Marley

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics. – Albert Einstein

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. – Steve Maraboli 

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.- Wayne Gretzky

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. – Robin Sharma

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. – Napoleon Hill

Quotes for Love, Happiness and Gratitude

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

Always have an attitude of gratitude. – Sterling K. Brown

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree. – Vietnamese Proverb

There is no path to happiness – happiness is the path. – Buddha

Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams. – Avina Celeste

Celebrate what you want to see more of. – Tom Peters

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

Looking for some balance in the new year?

Now that you’ve read the new year’s resolution quotes, time to learn about how yoga can help you find balance in your everyday life. Yoga cultivates not only physical balance but also a balance of the mind and spirit.

Interested? Check this: The 7 Best Standing Yoga Poses To Improve Your Balance