The holiday season is always a time to reflect and look back on the year that has gone by as well as look forward to all the potential of the year that is to come. With New Year's Eve just a few days away, here are a few quotes to get you thinking on the new year ahead.

1. "I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something." – Neil Gaiman
2. "Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change." – Sarah Ban Breathnach
3. Ring out the false, ring in the true. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
4. "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” – Hillary DePiano
6. “It isn’t only a new year; it is a new chance for everyone to restart.” – Mohammed Sekouty
7. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” – Joey Adams
8. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
9. “It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.” – Jim Bishop
10. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
11. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
12. “Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
13. “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.
14. “All of us every single year, we are a different person. I do not think we are the same person all our lives.” – Steven Speilberg
15. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
16. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T.S. Elliott
17. “Let our New Years resolution be this, we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – Goran Persson