Resolutions Quotes

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ”
― Anaïs Nin

“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, A Chesterton calendar

“The Anatomy of Conflict:

If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately.”
― Charles M. Sheldon

“I don't want to die in darkness any thicker than this. I want to bring some kind of resolution in my life.”
― Shusaku Endo, Scandal

“Begin again.

Begin again.

Every year
Every day
Every moment
Begin again.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Your worst fears are just that, fears.
All you know, all you have done
is always there with you,
will always be so.
Nothing is lost when you leap--jump in--
with openness to the great whatever.”
― Shellen Lubin

“The beauty of beginner mind
is the quality of the experience
of wonder, of gratitude,
of joy in all that is
and all that is
to come.”
― Shellen Lubin

“The beauty of beginner mind
is in the quality of the experience
and the ability to take all you know
with all your sense of wonder and possibility
into discovery...

Begin again.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not.
Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things.
I can easily reach from A to B.
I can manage from B to C.
I can then make it from C to D.
And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“It is your attitude, your choices, your habits, your companions, your values, your faith, your resolve, and your diligence that shape your future.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“But to tell the truth (to tell the truth!) I have never been particularly resolute, I mean given to resolutions, but rather inclined to plunge headlong into the shit, without knowing who was shitting against whom or on which side I had the better chance of skulking with success.”
― Samuel Beckett

“We love the pending future for its mystery, anticipation, and endless possibilities. But remember: how the future unravels is largely an up-to-you thing.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“The world asks, as it asks daily:
And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?

I count, this first day of another year, what remains.
I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands.”
― Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems

“Every year counts for something. What will 2022 count for?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Adversity is life's change agent trying to help us improve and make wiser decisions in this life.”
― Asa Don Brown

“I promise that next year will not be the same as this year.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Happy new year, make resolutions, have faith, keep going.”
― Santosh Kumar

“Whatever deadline I was currently missing was always the last deadline I was ever going to miss in my whole life ever, because tomorrow was going to be the perfect day, the most perfect day; the first perfect day of the rest of my perfect life.”
― Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

“Strictly speaking, resolutions of the UN and other international organizations cannot make international law. It is wrong, however, to regard them as having no legal significance whatever.”
― Vaughan Lowe, International Law: A Very Short Introduction

“The New Year is a fabricated line of demarcation wherein we believe that this ‘line’ gifts us with the opportunity for a new start and an excuse to celebrate it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So, today, I will not make promises to do better, to live healthier, or to save money. These are natural and valid attempts to regulate a future that is impossible to know. But, I will abandon the ritual of unwrapping a fresh package of new resolutions which feel individual in nature. They perpetuate a myth of self-sufficiency. Instead, I wish to live daringly in community and to accept the challenges our collective moment has to offer. I won’t look away in an attempt to live an anxiety-free life.”
― Major Jackson

“Something in Basie shifted. He took the key to his grief and unlocked the shackles. He was done with it. Done being pulled in a thousand different directions until his bones ached. Done wading through each day in a lukewarm haze. Done stopping in his tracks at the first sign of something good. Done holding himself back from actually going somewhere. Absolutely fucking done.”
― Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie

“Resolve doesn't need a New Year's resolution.”
― Alok Karkera