Only Eight Percent Fulfill New Year’s Resolutions – Ten Quotes of Solace for the Dropouts

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Exercising and losing weight is the number one New Years’s resolution. Photo: Adobe Stock

“Failure Is Not Fatal, and Most Likely Inevitable”

The time of year is once again upon us when we ask the perennial question, what changes do we want to make in the coming New Year.

Because humans are dreamers, many of us will make at least one New Year resolution, committing to changes we have no realist possibility of keeping.

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Eating healthy is a top ten New Year’s resolution. Photo: rawpixel.com / Pexels

Knowing exactly what you want to accomplish and how you will do it can help increase your chances of success, but 80 percent of New Year resolutions have failed by January 20, with only eight percent successfully achieving their New Year’s resolutions.


Popular New Year’s Resolution Are to Exercise More, Lose Weight, and Save Money.

For the per-annul optimists, the other 92 percent, who resolved to commit but for whatever reason/s did not achieve the set goal/s, the following ten quotes may help soften the bitter reverberation of the perennial “perhaps next year.”

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Twenty-five percent of people can play the piano, learning to play it is a popular NY resolution. Photo: Pixabay

Alice Bag

“What a waste my life would be without all the
beautiful mistakes I’ve made.”

Jean-Luc Picard

“If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.”

Douglas Adams

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes”.

W.C. Fields

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”

Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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New Year’s resolution favorites is to save money. Photo: Raw Pixel.com / Pixabay

Jerry Seinfeld

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason”

George Carlin

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

Simone Elkeles

“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class…”

Winston S. Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”