Whether you’re sending New Year’s cards instead of traditional holiday cards or just brainstorming for your perfect New Year’s Instagram post — finding the perfect message to share with your friends, family, and even colleagues can be tricky. Do you go for something funny? Is a sweet and sentimental saying more your speed? Or maybe you want to share your highlights from the 365 days with a year-in-review card?
To get your creative wheels turning, we’ve rounded up 75+ happy New Year wishes, quotes, and caption ideas for you that run the gamut from heartfelt to hilarious. The only rule is to go with a message that feels authentic to you and your hopes and dreams for the year ahead.
Sentimental New Year Wishes
The holidays are a time to share your appreciation for friends and family. A New Year's card is the perfect place to show your loved ones you care by thanking them for supporting you through the last 12 months, or by expressing your excitement to step into a new chapter with them.
Here are some examples of sentimental messages that are sure to warm your family’s and friends’ hearts as they ring in the New Year.
- Wishing you peace and joy in the year to come!
- Love and joy in the New Year from the [Fill in your last name here]
- Happy New Year from our family to yours!
- Warmest wishes for a wonderful year ahead!
- May you find joy in the little things this year!
- You filled our year with joy and love!
- Happy New Year from your four-legged (and two-legged!) friends!
- This year, friends and family filled our hearts with a lifetime of laughter, joy, and love. Wishing you the same!
- Wishing you full hearts next year and always!
- Hoping the new year brings you the love and laughter you always bring me.
- Here’s to an unforgettable New Year with unforgettable people by our side!
- They say, “New year, new you,” but you’re already perfect, and this year will be, too!
- Every year with you is the best one yet!
- I’m so grateful for your support and love this year. Here’s to many more.
- You made last year so special for me. Wishing this coming year will be special for you.
Funny New Year Wishes
Your friends and family will likely get many New Year's cards this year, so why not stand out with a little humor? This is a great option if you don’t love traditional New Year or Holiday Card greetings — or if you’re looking to just bring a little bit of light and laughter into the lives of your loved ones. If you’re designing a photo card, consider doing something funny in the photograph to match the greeting on your card. Get creative!
- Here we go again!
- New year, same us.
- If you don’t make any resolutions, you can’t break them!
- I see no need to make more New Year’s resolutions when the ones already on the books aren’t being enforced. Happy New Year!
- 2024 is here! We need beer!
- May your troubles last as short as your resolutions do.
- I feel like I say this every year, but: Happy New Year!
- My resolution was to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter. Here’s to a happy New Year and never quitting!
- I promise this year I won’t let you do stupid things alone. Happy New Year!
- Happy New Year! It’ll be like last year, but now we’re even older.
- My New Year’s resolution is to dream more. I guess I’ll need to sleep a lot.
- Before I agree to 2024, I’m going to need to see some terms & conditions.
- Happy New Year! It’s time to make a New Year’s resolution that we never speak of again.
- It might be a new year, but old habits die hard. Here’s to a happy New Year and never changing!
- What is a New Year’s resolution? Something that goes in one year and out the other. Happy New Year!
- The most fun part about making New Year’s resolutions is breaking New Year’s resolutions. Can’t wait to mess up with you.
- I love it when they drop the ball in Times Square. It’s a nice reminder of what I did all year!
Professional New Year Wishes
Sending a New Year’s card on behalf of a business to clients and customers is a great way to remind your professional community that you are grateful for their business, and will make them more likely to think of your business in the year to come! Similarly, sending a family photo card to your current or former colleagues is a great way to strengthen professional connections and build relationships in your industry.
No matter what type of professional New Year's card you choose to send, these types of cards tend to be less personal — but they’ll be no less special if you use the right language. Consider printing your cards with one the following professional New Year's greetings, and including a handwritten sentence or two to personally thank your favorite clients, customers, or colleagues for a great year.
- Wishing you much success and good health in the year to come!
- You made our year!
- Thanks for making this a great year! See you in 2024!
- Cheers to another successful year!
- Warm wishes from our [company name] family to yours!
- Happy New Year from the crew at [company name]!
- We have some exciting things in the works for 2024. Happy New Year to you and yours!
- Happy New Year to all of our amazing team members! Your hard work is what makes us great and we’re so excited to see what 2024 has in store.
- Thank you so much for supporting us in 2023. We’re looking forward to seeing you again in 2024!
- Cheers to health, happiness, and prosperity in 2024!
- Let's make 2024 our best year yet!
- Best wishes for a prosperous New Year!
- Wishing all our clients a happy New Year. Thank you for the privilege of working together.
- Thanks for choosing us over and over again. We promise to keep up the good work and to serve you in the new year. Happy New Year.
Pet-Centric Messages
Pets are family too! A pet-centric card is really fun to get in the mail, especially if your pet is a new addition to your home, and you want to share the good news. Embrace the kitschiness of this card. If you want to go really over the top, add a longer note sharing some favorite memories and facts about your pet. Something like: “Gizmo, 18 months, naps 20 hours a day and on the rare occasion he’s not napping, he likes to eat everything he can, sniff every single blade of grass, and bark at the mailman.” You get the gist. Have fun with this one!
- Happy New Year from a very good boy!
- Wishing you a Happy New Year filled with treats!
- Happy New Year from your four-legged (and two legged!) friends!
- Happy Mew-Year from our family to yours!
- RUFF RUFF RUFF! (Translation: Happy New Year!)
New Year Quotes
Having trouble finding the right words? You can use someone else’s! There are plenty of great New Year-related quotes to share with friends and family. Some are poignant or motivational, while others are funny. Choose the one that suits your style best, and be sure to sign off with a warm greeting in your own words to keep things feeling personal.
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
- “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
- “New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” — Mark Twain
- “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
- “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right” — Oprah Winfrey
- “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
- “I’m still the same person I was last year — now I’m just hung over.” — Unknown
- “‘Out with the old, in with the new’ is a fitting expression for a holiday that is based on vomiting.” — Andy Borowitz
- “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” — Seneca
- “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” — Carl Bard
- “Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.” — Mark Twain
- “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
- "Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since." — Dave Beard
- “The best is yet to come” — Frank Sinatra
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan
New Year Captions
All of the greetings we’ve shared so far make for great New Year caption ideas. You can use your caption to be witty, funny, or a little bit snarky — as the ideas below are great examples of. Just be sure to throw in an emoji or two!
- Hello New Year!
- Cheers to a New Year!
- New year. Who dis?
- Sometimes all we need is a fresh start. And champagne — lots of champagne. Happy New Year!
- New year, same me.
- Feeling so grateful looking back on 2023.
- Bring it on, 2024.
- Page 1 of 365.
- What’s coming is better than what’s going. Happy New Year!
Because you have a little bit more space to play with in a caption on Instagram or Facebook than on a physical card, we love the idea of pairing a shorter New Year’s greeting like the ones above with a longer message that shares the highlights of the last year, or what you are most looking forward to in the year to come. (This works especially well if you’re sharing a carousel of photos that include shots from your epic New Year's party as well as your favorite pictures from the last year!)
Here are some ideas for what to share in a longer New Year’s caption:
- Past travel or travel plans for the future
- New additions to your family (including pets!)
- New jobs
- School achievements
- Sports or extracurricular activities
- Activities or hobbies you’ve enjoyed in the past year
- The purchase of a new home or plans to move to a new city
No matter how you choose to see out 2023 and ring in 2024, finding time to wish those you care about the most a Happy New year is always a good idea. We hope the New Year’s greetings we’ve shared here helped spark some ideas of your own — but, if you’re still looking for the perfect way to wish everyone a happy New Year, you can check out our full selection of New Year’s cards here.
