60 Best New Year Wishes for 2023

A brand-new year is a time for reinvention for many. (We’re sure you’ve all heard the phrase “new year, new me.”) And 2023 isn’t any different. With the start of a new year, you can take the time to reflect on the past and move forward with renewed intentions for the next 365 days ahead. This year, as you prepare to usher in your New Year resolutions and toast the night away at a fabulous New Year’s Eve party, don’t forget to share a few New Year wishes with your friends and loved ones. Who knows, your positive messages and prayers could make all the difference!

Our list of wishes is filled with phrases and musings that are sure to motivate you and those around you to walk right into your best year yet. There are inspiring quotes from powerhouses like Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey and Eleanor Roosevelt. We also have heart-felt sayings that could double as Instagram captions for your NYE photos. We even made sure to sprinkle in a few of these jokes so that everyone can start off 2023 with a well deserved belly laugh. For those who are religious, we also picked prayers that are steeped in gratefulness and immense blessings.

Whatever you decide to go with, be sure to add “sending New Year wishes” to everyone you love to your list of New Year traditions!

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 2023!
• 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 2023!
• 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.

New Year Wishes for Friends

• 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 2023!
• 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 2023. You got this!
• New year, new start. May all your dreams come true in 2023!
• 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.

New Year Wishes for Your Boss or Co-Workers

• 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 2023!
• Wishing you and yours a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year!
• Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, and abundant 2023!
• May you have a prosperous New Year.
• Sending you well wishes and praying for you in the coming year!

Famous Quotes to Use as New Year Wishes

• “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