110 New Year Quotes for the Workplace, Motivation and a Successful 2027

With a new year comes a fresh start.

With health, wealth, relationships and at work too.

It’s one of my favorites because it’s that time of the year when we look back at what worked and at what we can learn from what didn’t and refuel our motivation and hope to make the next one even better.

To help you with that I’d like to share 110 of the most inspirational, powerful and funny New Year’s quotes for the workplace.

I hope you’ll find something here to give you a jolt of energy, to make you and your coworkers laugh so the stress stays low and simply something to motivate you to go after your goals and dreams and make 2027 your best and most successful year yet.

Motivational New Year Quotes for the Workplace

“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”
– Brad Paisley

“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would 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.”
– Melody Beattie

“As the new year begins, let it be a year where you try new things, learn new things and develop to the potential within you.”
– Theodore W. Higginsworth

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”
– Bonnie Prudden

“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”
– Vern McLellan

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.”
– Charles Kettering

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.”
– Michael Josephson

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson

“I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week, and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.”
– Darrell Hammond

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
– Nido Qubein

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”
– J.P. Morgan

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
– Jim Ryun

“Last year told you what you needed to know. Now it’s go time.”
– Richie Norton

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
– Plato

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
– Meister Eckhart

“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

Funny New Year Quotes for Work and Less Stress in 2027

“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”
– James Agate

“You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.”
– Charlie Brown

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.”
– Joey Adams

“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

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.'”
– Dave Barry

“This New Year’s, I was going to make a resolution never to be late again, but I didn’t wake up until January 2.”
– Melanie White

“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work, and the other half aren’t so bright.”
– Unknown

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”
– Bill Vaughan

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
– Bill Vaughan

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb

“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold

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

“My New Year’s resolution was to stop saying ‘You go, girl’ to myself.”
– Zach Galifianakis

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
– Douglas Adams

“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”
– Franklin P. Jones

“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
– Henry Kissinger

“I’ve been on a diet for two weeks, and all I’ve lost is two weeks.”
– Totie Fields

“Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?”
– Ogden Nash

Short and Powerful New Year’s Quotes for Work

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin

“A new year can begin only because the old year ends.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

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

“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss

“The beginning is always today.”
– Mary Shelley

“Paths are made by walking.”
– Franz Kafka

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
– Diana Scharf Hunt

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs

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

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford

“Don’t make plans. Make options.”
– Jennifer Aniston

“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles

“All growth depends upon activity.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James

New Year Quotes for the Workplace and Your Coworkers

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.”
– John Burroughs

“For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman

“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
– Henry Ford

“Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.”
– Michael Jordan

“Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time, we’d like each other a little more.”
– Judy Garland

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
– Ken Blanchard

“We rise by lifting others.”
– Robert Ingersoll

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
– Steve Jobs

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”
– John C. Maxwell

“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work.”
– David Ogilvy

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with funny people.”
– Carol Burnett

“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.”
– Andy Stanley

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.”
– Susan Sontag

New Year Quotes for Work and Success Next Year

“Never make a resolution which won’t be as important on the eighth of April or the tenth of July as it is on the first of January.”
– Cary Grant

“In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate about your dreams.”
– Bamigboye Olurotimi

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
– Peter Drucker

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”
– Cavett Robert

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon

“Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

“Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than before. It adds up.”
– Dwayne Johnson

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
– John D. Rockefeller Jr.

“The book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
– Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke

“You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”
– Mia Hamm

“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
– Biz Stone

Want more motivation for success in 2027? Then have a look at these positive quotes for the workplace, the inspirational and uplifting New Year’s quotes here and also this one with short New Year sayings and quotes.