Get your 2024 off to a good start! (Picture: Getty Images)

Whether you have big plans to usher in 2024 or are planning a quiet night in front of the telly, you’ll still want to get your New Year off the right way -so why not send a nice message or quote to a loved one?

2023 was an interesting year, to say the least. As such, it’s only natural to hope that 2024 will be kind, both in the world at large and on a more personal level, for those struggling.

Hope is the key, so it’s always nice to send your loved ones a positive text, card, or note to ring in the New Year, wishing them good health, success, and happiness over the next 12 months.

Whatever you have planned for New Year’s Eve – here are some apt New Year quotes, wishes and thoughtful messages to send as January 1, 2024 beckons.

New Year quotes for 2024

If you are looking for an inspiring quote to get your 2024 off to a good start, you might like to pick one of these as a toast to the occasion.

‘Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.’ – Brad Paisley

‘There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.’ – CS Lewis

‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.’ – Albert Einstein

‘He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.’ – F.M. Knowles

‘All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.’ – Walt Disney

‘Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘No one can go back and back a brand new start. But anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.’ – Carl Bard

‘You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.’ – Dr Seuss

The New Year is something to celebrate. (Picture: Getty)

‘New Year’s most glorious light is sweet hope!’ – Mehmet Murat ildan

‘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

‘In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!’ – Mehmet Murat ildan

‘I resolve to write a new chapter of my life every new day in the New Year.’ – Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great Mind

‘Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.’ – Michael Josephson

‘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

‘Ring out the false, ring in the true.’ – Lord Tennyson

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‘Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.’ – Craig D. Lounsbrough

‘It’s never too late, never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.’ – Jane Fonda

‘The best is yet to come.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘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

‘Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.’ – Lucius Seneca

Send your Happy New Year wishes – as 2024 is here! (Picture: Getty)

‘For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.’ – T.S. Eliot

‘May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!’ – Aleister Crowley

‘You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.’ – C.S. Lewis

Happy New Year messages and wishes to send to start 2024

Looking to kick off 2024 by sending a nice message to friends, family, or other loved ones? One of these New Year messages might be just the right sentiment.

New year, new feels, new chances. Same dreams, fresh starts.

We are all stories in the end – let’s make ours a good one.

You are never too old to set another goal or dream another dream.

This is your year to sparkle.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

This is the beginning of anything you want.

It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.

This is your year to shine. Happy New Year!

The best is yet to come. Happy New Year!

This is the beginning of anything you want. Happy New Year!

Live long and prosper!

Here’s to an amazing 2024.

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Ready to say goodbye to 2023 and hello to 2024? Start the New Year right with these thoughtful notes.