Around the world, IGI welcomes the arrival of New Year’s Day over a period of 16 hours. As we celebrate from one location to the next and the next – stepping into the new year with anticipation, excitement and hope – we share this collection of positive expressions and sentiments.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Ghandi
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” -Brad Paisley
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” – Hillary DePiano
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – JP Morgan
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” – Taylor Duvall
The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Some people swear there’s no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then, how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?” – Claire Morgan
“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.” – G.K. Chesterton
“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
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The best is yet to come.” – Frank Sinatra
