40+ New Year wishes and messages for cards

The arrival of the New Year marks the end of the festive period, but it also begins a new chapter in our lives, and there can be a lot to look forward to about a new year starting. Sharing this optimism and joy with your friends and family can be great fun at a New Year party, but we can’t always be with our loved ones at this time of year, so sending some happy New Year wishes can be a wonderful way to let them know they are in our thoughts.

Finding the right way to send a New Year card message can sometimes be a little tricky, but that’s why you’ve got your friends here at thortful to help! From funny New Year’s messages to some more inspirational New Year quotes, here are our top picks.

Wondering where to jot down your chosen message? In one of our sparkling New Year’s cards of course! With all the champagne bottles, streamers, and fireworks you’d expect, our independent creators have absolutely nailed it: 

Marina Kromitsyna

Cards for feelings

Natalia Gonzalez

The Pattern Press

Alyona Shirokova

Pepper & Plum

OriginalByPaige

Designer By Lockdown

And if you’re looking to celebrate the arrival of the Lunar New Year, check out our traditional Chinese New Year greetings instead. 

Happy New Year messages

Start the year off in a traditional way with a New Year greeting that conveys all the happiness and excitement you feel for the year ahead. Try one of these happy New Year wishes to send to loved ones this year:

1. Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy New Year.
2. May the New Year bless you with health and happiness.
3. Happy New Year this year and every year!
4. May your year be filled with adventures, accomplishments and laughter.
5. Hoping that your year is filled with meaningful memories you will cherish forever.
6. Raising a toast to you and yours as the bells chime midnight!
7. Happy New Year! I look forward to another year of fun and love with you in my life.
8. Wishing you all the happiness that this life can bring!

Funny New Year messages

If they’re more likely to chuckle at funny New Year sentiments, why not try out one of these hilarious one-liners in one of our funny New Year cards? And if you’re looking for more NYE humour, make sure you check out our guide to what your New Year’s resolution says about you.

1. Before you get drunk, dance on the bar, wear a traffic cone as a hat, lose your phone and wake up next year with a cracking hangover… I just wanted to say an early happy new year.
2. Getting old is realising you have to force yourself to stay awake for the bells – happy New Year old man/lady!
3. The best part of marking resolutions is breaking resolutions – looking forward to another year of behaving badly with you
4. Looking forward to hearing all the New Year’s resolutions you won’t be keeping this year.
5. Happy New Year! Let us eat, drink and be merry because we’ll be miserable when the diet starts.
6. Beautiful, kind, loving and wise – you’re so lucky to have a friend like me to take into the New Year!
7. This year, may you be a little bit older, a little bit rounder, and absolutely none the wiser.
8. I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since you didn’t become a better person.

Inspirational Happy New Year messages

Here are some of our favourite quotes about New Year’s Eve and New Year to help inspire your friends and family to live their life to the fullest and feel motivated to achieve their New Year resolution. Add one of these into one of our pretty New Year’s cards so they have both a beautiful quote and picture to put on their shelf:

1. “New Year’s most glorious light is sweet hope!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
2. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” ― Melody Beattie
3. ”We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” ― Hillary DePiano
4. “Nothing is as good as coming into the new year with zeal, hope and a positive mind.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi
5. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
6. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley
8. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein

Happy New Year wishes for friends

Looking for some New Year wishes that are perfect for your pals? Send them into January with the following messages that are warm, optimistic, and full of joy:

1. Cheers to another year of laughter, good times, and spontaneous adventures! Happy New Year mate. 
2. So grateful for your friendship this past year. Here’s to plenty more good times for the year ahead. 
3. Looking forward to a fresh year of inside jokes, late-night chats, and making questionable decisions together… 
4. Wishing you a year as wonderful as our friendship! 
5. New Year, same us (I wouldn’t have it any other way). 
6. Here’s to more memories, mischief, and moments that make us laugh ‘till we can’t breathe. 
7. I’m so lucky to be going into the New Year with a friend as wonderful as you. 
8. Happy New Year to my best friend. I’m so excited to celebrate tonight! 

Happy New Year messages for partners

Whether you’ve recently got together or have shared decades of New Years together, these sentiments are perfect for popping in a card to your other half: 

1. Every year with you gets better and better. Happy New Year! 
2. Happy New Year to my favourite person. 
3. Counting down to midnight with you will always be my favourite tradition. 
4. I’m so excited to see what the year ahead brings for the both of us!
5. Here’s to another year of us! Bring on the cosy nights, summer trips, and everything in between. 
6. Here’s to another 365 days of us, happy New Year! 
7. Another year by each other’s sides? Sounds good to me. 
8. You make my life so much brighter! Happy New Year and cheers to us. 
9. Here’s to another whole year of memorable dates, inside jokes, and arguments over what movie we want to watch.

New Year wishes for bosses and coworkers

Stuck for ideas about what to say to those you spend your 9-5 with? Here are some happy New Year messages for your boss and your favourite co-workers: 

1. Huge thank you for your support and guidance, wishing you a wonderful New Year!  
2. Happy New Year! I’m super grateful to be part of such a positive, fun, and inspiring team.  
3. Thanks for making the everyday that little bit brighter. Happy New Year to my work bestie!
4. Here’s to fresh ideas, exciting projects, and plenty of coffee to get us through. 
5. Your guidance and support mean a lot, thank you for everything this year. 
6. Here’s to another year of hilarious colleagues and plenty of coffee breaks… 
7. We’ve achieved so much together this year, and I can’t wait to see what the upcoming year holds! 
8. Happy New Year to the best team!

And there you have it, a bunch of different happy New Year wishes for you to steal and jot down inside your card! If you’re still a little stuck for inspiration, just check out our what to write section of our blog to find some more hilarious, sweet and rude messages that will perfectly suit your card – and its recipients!