As we start a new chapter in our lives, both as individuals and as a community, allow me to share with you these beautiful quotes that I hope will help you start the year right. Cheers to a new beginning! God bless us all.
“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
“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. Eliot
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday”. – Charles Lamb
“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” – Psalm 118:24
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
”I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.” -Tom Hopkins
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
”You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – M.K. Gandhi
“You got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” – Happy Talk (from Oscar Hammerstein II’s South Pacific)
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Do or Do Not. There is no Try.” – Yoda
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.” – Eric Zorn
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals; adjust the action steps.” – Confucius
“A person should set his goals as early as he can, and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” – Walt Disney
“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” – Earl Nightingale
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Larry Elder
“If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.” – Zig Ziglar
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” – Brian Tracy
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” — Nelson Mandela
“Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.” – Nelson Mandela
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” – Romans 8:28
“Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” – Mark 11:22-24
“Remember when you leave this earth,
you can take with you nothing that you have received–
only what you have given:
a heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”
— St. Francis of Assisi
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Gel Santos Relos is the anchor of TFC’s “Balitang America.” Views and opinions expressed by the author in this column are are solely those of the author and not of Asian Journal and ABS-CBN-TFC. For comments, go to www.TheFil-AmPerspective.com, https://www.facebook.com/Gel.Santos.Relos
