"There is, indeed, something inexpressibly pleasing, in the annual renovation of the world, and the new display of the treasures of nature." 
Samuel Johnson

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

"Nothing is as new as something which has long been forgotten." Proverb

“When an environment is new, we perceive the old one for the first time.” Marshall McLuhan

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen

"The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present." Abraham Lincoln

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.” Dee Hock, Founder of Visa

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.” Charles Brower