96 New Year Wishes to Celebrate the Beginning of 2025 (2024)

Whether you spend New Year's Eve at a fun party or snuggled up in pajamas at home watching New Year's movies, when the calendar hits January 1 a fresh start begins. One way to kick off 2025 when the clock strikes midnight is to wish your friends and family a Happy New Year in an inspiring, uplifting way. These Happy New Year wishes and messages can help with that!

With this list, you can choose to share warm sentiments with your loved ones, funny jokes with your friends, thoughtful prayers and blessings, or simply a New Year quote about prosperity, health, and happiness in the year ahead.

Make it one of your New Year's resolutions to share something sweet (or silly) the first time you see someone in the new year, or use any of these short messages as the perfect caption for all the selfies and snapshots you took at the end of 2024. Cheers to your family and friends, and cheers to 2025!

New Year Wishes for Spouses or Partners

  • Every year with you is the best one yet ... cheers to many more.
  • Let's make 2025 our best year yet! I love you!
  • I can't believe all the places the past year has brought us, and I can't wait to see where we go in 2025. I love you!
  • Time flies when you're with the one you love most. Here's to another year together!
  • Happy New Year! I love you now and every new year after this.
  • Here's to loving you in 2025 and each year after that. Happy New Year!
  • Here’s to making more cherished memories in 2025!
  • Happy New Year to my favorite person.
  • I’m so proud of all your accomplishments this year — and I just can’t wait to see what you do in the next.
  • You made this past year so joyful and full of love. Here's to stepping into a new year with you!
  • I've been lucky to spend 2024 with you. I feel even luckier to know that 2025 is ours, too.
  • Every day with you feels like a gift. Here's to another 365 days of "presents."
  • Whatever the new year has in store, we’ll be in it together. Happy New Year to the love of my life.
  • I couldn't imagine a better way to kick off the new year than with you in my life.
  • The best thing I did this year was fall in love with you. Cheers to making more memories together in 2025!
  • 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!
  • A new year, a new chapter and tons of new memories to be made together!
  • 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! Here's to living life to the fullest in 2025 ... and every year after that!
  • Happy New Year to one of my most cherished friends.
  • 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 2025!
  • 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 2025. You got this!
  • New year, new start. May all your dreams come true in 2025!
  • 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

  • Here's to 2025! I'm excited to see what the new year brings.
  • I can’t wait to see how our team will grow in the new year!
  • Wishing you and your family health, happiness, and prosperity in the new year.
  • Thank you for everything this past year — looking forward to seeing you in 2025.
  • Here’s to more success in the new year!
  • Happy New Year team! I'm beyond proud of everything we have managed to accomplish this year!
  • Happy New Year! Thank you for being an important part of an amazing year.
  • Here's to another great year of inspiring productivity!
  • Thank you for your leadership over the last 365 days. Here's to the next!
  • 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 2025!
  • Wishing you and yours a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year!
  • Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, and abundant 2025!
  • 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

  • "A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." — Unknown
  • "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
  • "New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday." — Charles Lamb
  • “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.” — Unknown

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Funny New Year Wishes

  • I was going to give up all of my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that no one likes a quitter. Happy New Year!
  • Have a carefree New Year’s Eve and a hangover-free New Year’s Day
  • New year, new mistakes.
  • Sorry for all the annoying behavior I did throughout the year. May you give me another chance to do that again in the new year!
  • Live it up on New Year's Eve — you've got the whole year to live it down!
  • Roses are red, violets are blue. It's another year — what else is new?
  • It’s time to make old mistakes in different ways. Hurray! Happy New Year!
  • Happy New Year! Let's eat, drink, and be merry — for tomorrow we diet!
  • 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 and Blessings

  • May the New Year bless you with unwavering faith that guides your steps, illuminates your path, and fills your heart with hope and strength throughout the year ahead.
  • "As the dawn breaks on a new year, let us give thanks for all we hold dear: our health, our family and our friends." — Rev. Marcy Sheremetta
  • "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." — Jeremiah 29:11
  • "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come" — 2 Corinthians 5:17
  • “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 a blessed year ahead. May God's light guide your way in 2025.
  • May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. — Psalm 20:4

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Alesandra Dubin

Contributing Writer

Alesandra is a digital travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Prevention, Insider, Glamour, Shondaland, AFAR, Parents, TODAY and countless other online and print outlets. Alesandra has a masters degree in journalism with an emphasis on cultural reporting and criticism from NYU, and a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley. An avid traveler, she trots the globe with her husband and their twins.

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Cameron Jenkins

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Cameron (she/her) is a staff writer for Good Housekeeping, where she covers everything from holidays to food. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she received a B.A. in magazine journalism. In her spare-time she can be found scrolling TikTok for the latest cleaning hacks and restaurant openings, binge-watching seasons of Project Runway or online shopping.

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