38. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

39. "Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to." - Bill Vaughan

40. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” - F.Scott Fitzgerald

41. "Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” -Cavett Robert

42. "Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” -John R. Dallas Jr.

43. "The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” -Leo Tolstoy

44.  “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

45. “One resolution I have made and try always to keep is this: To rise above the little things.” -John Burroughs

46. “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” -Oscar Wilde

47. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” -Albert Einstein

48. “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” -Ellen Goodman

49. "Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.” -Eric Zorn

50. "An optimist stays up till midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” -Bill Vaughn

(Tribunnews.com/Garudea Prabawati)