The most magical time of the year doesn’t start and end with Christmas. Many would even argue that the beginning of the year holds the most promise, and therefore is exceptionally magical in its own right. This year, between hosting a chic New Year’s Eve celebration and making all of your totally attainable New Year resolutions, take the time to send and share these Happy New Year wishes and messages with all of your closest friends and family members.

If the thought of coming up with what to say in your holiday toast or how you should caption photos of your New Year’s Eve countdown leaves you scratching your head, you’ll want to check out this that's filled with great words for 2024. Any of these inspirational phrases, light-hearted jokes, uplifting quotes and beautiful prayers can even be sent over text to those you can't be with at the stroke of midnight.

No matter how you celebrate, make it a New Year tradition to welcome in the next 365 days with gratitude, love and everyone who makes your life a little brighter!


New Year Wishes for Spouses or Partners

  • Every year with you is the best one yet... cheers to many more.
  • Here’s to making more cherished memories in 2024!
  • I’m so proud of all your accomplishments this year — and I just can’t wait to see what you do in the next.
  • Whatever the new year has in store, we’ll be in it together. Happy new year to the love of my life.
  • The best thing I did this year was fall in love with you. Cheers to making more memories together in 2024!
  • Whatever the new year brings, I know I’ll achieve my goals with you by my side. Happy new year to my forever love!
  • Time flies when you’re with the love of your life. Cheers to another year together — and forever to go!
  • The new year brings in new opportunities, but I am forever grateful that all those changes will include having you by my side.
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New Year Wishes for Friends

  • Wishing you the best year yet! You deserve it!
  • We're so grateful that you could be here to celebrate the holidays with us and share in our good cheer! May our hopeful wishes follow you home and warm you through the new year.
  • May the closeness of your loved ones, family, and friends fill your heart with joy. Happy New Year!
  • Wishing you nothing but health, wealth, and endless blessings in the New Year ahead.
  • Happy New Year! We know that this past year has been full of challenges, and we pray that the coming year brings brighter days. Sending all our love and good wishes.
  • New year, new adventures with my best friend. I can’t wait!
  • In an extraordinary year, I’ve been grateful for your extraordinary friendship…. thank you. And cheers to new beginnings!
  • I’m so grateful for your support and love this year. Here’s to many more years of friendship!
  • Here’s to another year of making memories with you, my cherished friend. Happy New Year!
  • Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. Cheers to another year of sisterhood.
  • You deserve all the best: May all your wishes come true in 2024!
  • The future is your story to write… make next year the best one yet.
  • New Year’s Day is the first page in a blank book: Write a phenomenal story!
  • May all your wildest dreams manifest in 2024. You got this!
  • New year, new start. May all your dreams come true in 2024!
  • Cheers to a new year, new beginnings and the same friends!
  • Our friendship is like wine, and it's a new year of us getting better with age. Thank you for being you and cheers to what is coming our way.
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New Year Wishes for Your Boss or Co-Workers

  • Happy New Year team! I'm beyond proud of everything we have managed to accomplish this year!
  • I can't wait to see how we continue to hit our mark in the new year!
  • Cheers to more shared successes in the new year!
  • Wishing you and yours some well-deserved downtime and a very happy new year to come.
  • Cheers to health, happiness, and prosperity in 2024!
  • Wishing you and yours a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year!
  • Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, and abundant 2024!
  • May you have a prosperous New Year.
  • Sending you well wishes and praying for you in the coming year!
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Famous Quotes to Use as New Year Wishes

  • “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” —Göran Persson
  • “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift
  • “One thing with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” —Michael Cibeuko
  • “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
  • “In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.” —Beyoncé
  • “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a new year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.” —Susan Sontag
  • “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.” —T.S. Eliot
  • “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”—Bill Vaughn
  • “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”—Oprah
  • “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”—Albert Einstein
  • “All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.”—Steven Spielberg
  • “I do not make resolutions for the New Year, but visualize and plan things.”—Amala Akkineni
  • “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”—Walt Disney
  • “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”—Mother Teresa
  • “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” —William Shakespeare
  • “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” —Plato
  • “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” —Jack Kornfield
  • “I think I made too many New Year’s resolutions this year. It took me almost a full day to break them all.” — Anonymous

Funny New Year Wishes

  • Live it up on New Year's Eve — you've got the whole year to live it down!
  • Happy New Year! Let's eat, drink, and be merry — for tomorrow we diet!
  • A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
  • May all of your troubles last as long as my New Year's resolutions! Happy New Year!
  • Before I get drunk, dance on the bar, lose my phone, get naked and get arrested, let me wish you a Happy New Year!
  • I’m so excited for the new year. Unfortunately, I don’t have to make any resolutions because I am already perfect.

New Year Prayers

  • “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • May God shower you and your family with love and happiness! Best wishes and season's greetings for the New Year.
  • This New Year, may God answer your prayers and fulfill your heart's desires.
  • Wishing you a Happy New Year and blessed year ahead. May God's light guide your way in 2024.
  • May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. —Psalm 20:4