Motivation to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions

Stick to your New Year’s resolutions

Ready to make 2024 the year you stick to your New Year’s resolutions? 

Motivate yourself to start and inspire yourself to stay on track with powerful, uplifting motivational quotes. 

New Year’s Resolution #1: To exercise, lose weight, or get fit

Hitting the gym? Running a 5k? Not surprisingly, the most common New Year’s resolutions center on fitness. 

Here are some motivational quotes to help stick to your resolution so you can look and feel your best. 

1. The transformation might not happen overnight. But small, daily changes will still get you to where you want to be.
2. Stop dreading that you have to work out, and start being thankful that you get to work out.
3. Someone can be faster, stronger, or more powerful. But in the end, success belongs to the one who works hardest.
4. You can make excuses or you can make progress.
5. A healthy attitude is the first step to achieving a healthy lifestyle.
6. A 30-minute workout is only 2% of your day. Yes, you can make time.
7. Getting fit may be hard, but living an unhealthy life is even harder.
8. The only bad workouts are the ones you skip.
9. Your strength doesn't begin in the gym, it begins in your mind.
10. Committing to fitness is committing to your health, your happiness, and your longevity.

New Year’s Resolution #2: to find a new job, get a promotion, or find career success

Ready to jump-start your career in 2024? Or launch a new business? 

Whatever your career goals are for the year, here are our favorite quotes to keep you on track. 

1. Success does not depend on your age, a degree, your wealth, or your IQ; it does depend on your belief in yourself and consistent action toward your goals.
2. Let your hustle whisper and your success roar.
3. Career success will never be just about money or a title. It's about waking up in the morning and looking forward to the rest of your day.
4. Successful people see hard work as an opportunity not punishment.
5. You are only as successful as your mindset. Think bigger! 
6. Your passion and your consistency are what lead to your success.
7. Trust in yourself, in your abilities, and in your talents. You've got everything it takes to reach your goals.
8. You deserve a career that makes you happy.
9. You weren't born to make money, you were born to do what you love. When you can do both at once, you have found your calling.
10. Keep going the extra mile. It's what makes the difference between a job and a career.

New Year’s Resolution #3: to deepen your connections or spend quality time with loved ones

If life is a piece of cake, your loved ones are the icing, sprinkles, and everything that makes it, well, sweeter! 

Here are some motivational quotes to inspire you to turn off your electronics and spend more time bonding with the people you love the most. 

1. Someday, all you'll have of them are memories and photographs. Love them as hard as you can, for as long as you can, in all the ways that you can.
2. You never know what tomorrow will bring. Love your family, your friends, your life, and yourself with all of your heart… right now.
3. If you can end the day by hugging someone you love, you're succeeding at life.
4. Always let the people you love know how you feel.
5. Love them for who they are, not for who you want them to be. 
6. Make time for the people and things that matter to you, before you run out of time to give them.
7. Time shared with loved ones heals your heart and fuels your soul.
8. As long as your loved ones come first, it doesn't matter what comes second.
9. You don't need to share blood or a last name to be a family. All you need to share is love.
10. Never underestimate the importance of being able to spend time with the people you love. It is, quite possibly, the biggest blessing of all.

New Year’s Resolution #4: to learn to love yourself and make time for self-care

Treat yourself with the same love, kindness, and understanding that you treat others.

Be your own best friend with these encouraging quotes. 

1. You have so much love to give. Make sure you give some to yourself, too.
2. Take a good, honest look at everything going on around you. Then start eliminating anything that doesn't bring positivity into your life.
3. You don't have to wait until you see a masterpiece in the mirror. You deserve to love yourself as a work in progress, too.
4. Self-Care Tip: Choose yourself. Prioritize yourself. Love yourself.
5. Love yourself first. Be kind to yourself first. The rest of the world can wait a little bit longer.
6. Self-care is when you're improving yourself instead of proving yourself.
7. You’re allowed to make choices that support your happiness.
8. Self-care isn't always bubble baths and cupcakes. It's also setting boundaries, having difficult conversations, and letting go of the past.
9. The highest form of happiness comes from loving yourself as much as you love others.
10. You'll never talk to anyone as much as you talk to yourself, so make sure the words you speak to yourself are filled with love and compassion.

New Year’s Resolution #5: to chase your boldest dream and achieve your biggest goal

Do you have something completely different in mind? 

Here are some general motivational quotes to help you accomplish whatever you set out to do this year. 

1. Do it for yourself, not for applause.
2. Passion + Determination = Success
3. Keep your eyes on your goal. When you're tempted to quit, remember why you started.
4. If you want it badly enough, you'll find the time and energy to make it happen.
5. Success comes with consistency. Keep going, even on the most challenging days.
6. Motivation gets you going, discipline keeps you growing.
7. Light your own fire and chase your success single-mindedly, while ignoring anyone or anything that tries to stop you.
8. Reset, restart, refocus. But don't you dare give up on your dreams. 
9. Set a big, bold goal. Let it power your dreams and fuel your passions.
10. The results you want to see tomorrow will be based on the efforts you put in today.

Final Thoughts

Sticking to your New Year’s resolution can be tough, but you’re tougher! 

Read through these motivational quotes whenever you need an extra boost of encouragement to keep going. Or, for more content and categories curated just for you and your resolutions, check out the Motivation app (available for iPhone or Android). 

You’ve got this!