Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
—Barbara Walters
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
—George EliotCheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
—Oprah WinfreyThe beginning is the most important part of the work.
—Plato All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
—Mae WestFor last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.
—TS EliotYou may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
—Mary PickfordThe beginning is always today.
—Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.
—John Pierpont MorganYou are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
—CS Lewis
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.
—Henry Moore

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
—Seneca
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(This story appears in the 19 January, 2018 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)