All over the world people mark the changing of the year when the clock strikes midnight on 31st December and wish each other a very Happy New Year. For some this is one of the most cherished annual events, for others it's simply a changing of the calendar. For those who see it as a chance at a new beginning, the dawning of a better tomorrow, we've pulled together 10 inspiring new year quotes to help spread good cheer and joy.

Read on and be inspired with your new year new beginnings:

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. - Mark Twain

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. - Brooks Atkinson

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

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. - Albert Einstein

Time has no divisions to mark its passage. There is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. - Michael Altshuler

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want. - Irish toast

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment. - Sydney Smith