The start of the new year is always a hopeful time – you feel that anything is possible with this fresh start. Here are some inspirational new years quotes from celebrities both current and ancient to help you begin your new year with your beloved family on a super-positive note, including some wisdom from that master motivator, Oprah Winfrey. Happy new year!

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. — G. K. Chesterton

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin

Glory to God in highest heaven,//Who unto man His Son hath given;//While angels sing with tender mirth,//A glad new year to all the earth. — Martin Luther

We spend January 1 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. — Ellen Goodman

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. — Edith Lovejoy Pierce

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. – Charles Lamb

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey
Source: http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/2010/12/31/inspirational-new-years-quotes-draw-inspiration-from-oprah-ben-franklin-others/