Turning Over a New Leaf Quotes

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Each year is a new year.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

You get a new year, you get a new start, you get a new opportunity.

I'm not ready to die yet. I have, like, 40 years left that I have to make up for all of the trouble I caused in my first 50 years.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.

It is a good thing to start fresh.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

You don't get many do-overs in life.

Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.

With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?