The year 2016 is coming to a close. The year 2017 is approaching fast and everyone is preparing themselves for another year. For a source of inspiration and motivation going into the next year, here are 16 quotes to end 2016.

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."- Dennis P. Kimbro

"The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will."- Vince Lombardi

"If not us, who? If not now, when?"- John F. Kennedy

"A new you can still emerge from the old you."- Bamigboye Olurotimi

"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life."- Proverbs 4:23

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." - Helen Keller

“You can be clumsy yet clever. You can be classy yet poor. It’s not tearing a leaf off a calendar which will make you a better or a worse man but the attitude that you have from dusk till dawn every day.”- Indeewara Jayawardane

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”- Oprah Winfrey

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one."- Brad Paisley

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."- Mark Twain

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This bright new year is given me.To live each day with zest.To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!"- William Arthur Ward

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..." - Alfred Tennyson

"It isn't only a new year, it is a new chance for everyone to restart."- Mohammed Sekouty

"You know, sometimes all you need is 20seconds of insane courage. Just, literally, 20seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it."- Benjamin Mee

2017 is the chance to start new and leave the past year behind. These 16 quotes set a tone for a great new year.