Carolyn Chute Quotes

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.

New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

With the new year comes a refueled motivation to improve on the past one.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Everyone wants to start the year off well.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.

As we look forward to the New Year, let's resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.

New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.

You always want to be open to possibilities in the new year.

I can improve and make my game more complete, but I keep on working and try my best.