140+ January Quotes to Inspire You in the New Year

As we move into the New Year, it’s important to remember that we all have the power to achieve our goals. With a little bit of motivation and inspiration, anything is possible! That’s why we’ve gathered over 140 quotes to help get you motivated for the year ahead. Whether you’re looking for some words of wisdom or just a good laugh, these quotes will help you start this year on the right foot.

What are the benefits of reading January quotes?

Reading quotes can help motivate and inspire us to take action. They can give us the push we need to overcome any obstacle and make our dreams come true. Quotes also offer a way for us to reflect on our lives and be reminded of what is important. They can provide an insight into other perspectives, show us a different viewpoint or remind us of our dreams. Quotes can also make us feel less alone and remind us that we are not the only ones facing adversity. Ultimately, quotes can help us stay positive and focus on the positives in life.

So, take a few moments this month to read some inspiring January quotes. Let the words spark creativity and ignite your passion for life. Be sure to share these quotes with friends and family to help them stay motivated too! Here are our top 100 January quotes for you to enjoy.

January Quotes

1. “The beginning is always today” – Mary Shelley
2. “January is the month for dreaming” – Jean Hersey
3. “The future begins today.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
4. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
5. “A goal is just a dream with a deadline.” – Drake
6. “January is the month for dreaming.” – Jean Hersey
7. “Nothing burns like the cold.” – George R.R. Martin
8. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
9. “In this world only winter is certain.” – George R.R. Martin
10. “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” – Stewart Stafford
11. “Feeling a little blue in January is normal.” – Marilu Henner
12. “Life is a progress, and not a station.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “January, month of empty pockets!” – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
14. “One kind word can warm three winter months” – Japanese proverb
15. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
16. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be” – Lao Tzu
17. “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” – Paul Theroux
18. “There better things ahead than any we leave behind” – C.S. Lewis
19. “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tom Allen
20. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland
21. “If you wait, all that happens is you get older.” – Larry McMurtry
22. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” – Pietro Aretino
23. “Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.” – Temitope Ibrahim
24. “It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground.” – Charlotte Eriksson
25. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
26. “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it .” – Ted Williams
27. “Don’t wait until February to start living in January.” – Anthony T. Hincks
28. “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.” – Jim Gaffigan
29. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
30. “Kindness is like snow, it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran
31. “January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” – Sara Coleridge
32. “A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.” – Anusha Atukorala
33. “No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.” – Charles Lamb
34. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
35. “Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.” – Rachel Joyce
36. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living some else’s life” – Steve Jobs
37. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” – Hillary DePiano
38. “A bad day doesn’t mean a bad week or a bad month or a bad year.”- Anuj Jasani
39. “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
40. “Work hard, never give up and don’t fall in love with yourself .” – Martha Sturdy
41. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” – Joey Adams
42. “Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif
43. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
44. “A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.” – Mary Kay Ash
45. “A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” – Bo Bennett
46. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” – Patricia Briggs
47. “Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.” – Stephen King
48. “If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?” – Steph Curry
49. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
50. “When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
51. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
52. “What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.” – bell hooks
53. ‘Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
55. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
56. “New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter waiting to be written.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
57. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
58. “It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.” – Wallace Stevens
59. “Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.” – Andy Andrews
60. “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paul Coelho
61. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” – Ted Turner
62. “It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.” – Wallace Stevens
63. “Once you really know yourself, can’t nobody tell you nothing about you.” – Megan Thee Stallion
64. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle
65. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
66. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie
67. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
68. “I pray this winter be gentle and kind-a season of rest from the wheel of the mind. “ – John Geddes
69. “It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.” – Pat Summitt
70. “…I pray this winter be gentle and kind – a season of rest from the wheel of the mind…” – John Geddes
71. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
72. “I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.” – Jerry Spinelli
73. “New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” – April Mae Monterrosa
74. “Drop the last month into the silent limbo of the past and thank God that it can go.” – Brooks Atkinson
75. “My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jina and Jacey Jones.” – January Jones
76. “It is worth taking the time to stop and contemplate at the beginning of each new month.” – Nadine Locke
77. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
78. “Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
79. “January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.” – M.L. Stedman
80. “The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.” – Naomi Shihab Nye
81. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
82. “Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.” – Henry Ward Beecher
83. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
84. “Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.
85. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
86. “Look lak she been livin’ through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.” – Zora Neale Hurston
87. “I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.” – Helen Fielding
88. “Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” – Alexandra Guarnaschelli
89. “I like starting projects in January. That’s the best time to start something. It’s so inward.” – Carolyn Chute
90. “No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.” – Suze Orman
91. “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” – Terri Guillemets
92. “If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” – Roald Dahl
93. “Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.” – Jentezen Franklin
94. “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” – Bill Vaughan
95. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
96. “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” – Steven Spielberg
97. “Snow brings a special quality with it – the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” – Nancy Hatch Woodward
98. “Through the chill of December the early winter moans… but it’s that January wind that rattles old bones.” – John Facenda
99. “New year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” – Alex Morritt
100. “The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” – G. K. Chesterton.
101. “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.” – Richard Adams
102. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
103. “If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.” – Jill Koenig
104. “Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
105. “January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.” – Anne Truitt
106. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
107. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” – Mandy Hale
108. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
109. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
110. “Let us do something incredible this New Year: Let us try to see the world from the window of other cultures!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
111. “And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
112. “The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo
113. “December is letting go, Of all the past year’s fails, And starting anew in January, As time again chases its tail.” – Stewart Stafford
114. “I’ve grown most not from victories, but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us.” – Serena Williams
115. “January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.” – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
116. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson
117. “January is the quietest month in the garden. But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.” – Rosalie Muller Wright
118. “Here is an unchanging truth valid for all the New Year’s: The more you believe in luck, the less successful you will be!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
119. “There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogs.” – Hal Borland
120. “January is the quietest month in the garden. … But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.” – Rosalie Muller Wright
121. “The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.” – Chuck Todd
122. “The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st – are you riding your bike?” – Lance Armstrong
123. “Welcome January: If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17
124. “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer
125. “Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.” – Karen Joy Fowler
126. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet
127. “I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.” – Taylor Swift
128. “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.” – Neil Gaiman
129. “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” – Edith Sitwell
130. “New Year is a new morning and a new morning is a new opportunity and a new opportunity is a new path and finally a new path is a new richness!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
131. “January, the first month of the year. A perfect time to start all over again. Changing energies and deserting old moods. New beginnings, new attitudes.” – Charmaine J Forde
132. “I’ll never understand why everybody puts so much emphasis on January 1. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days in the year that you can make a change.” – Elizabeth Eulberg
133. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce
134. “This year I invested in pumpkins. They’ve been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they’re going to peak right around January. Then bang! That’s when I’ll cash in.” – Homer
135. “There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.” – Bamigboye Olurotimi
136. “Call it ‘the New Year’s resolution effect’; it’s why gyms that were crowded in January are only half full in July and why so many slightly used guitars are available on Craigslist.”- Anders Ericsson
137. “This January, Kevin Costner will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his contribution to film. This gives Costner just two months to make a contribution to film.” – Tina Fey
138. “I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what I was doing, but we didn’t have all the pieces put together.” – Donna Shalala
139. “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder-no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.” – Candace Bushnell
140. “I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that’s really why I’m preparing for January, because I’ll finish in June; then I’ll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.” – Max Lucado
141. “January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year’s resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.” – Sendhil Mullainathan
142. “Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.” – Steven Wright

Wrapping Up

January is a month of new beginnings, fresh starts and resolutions. Whether you’re inspired by the words of well-known authors or eager to make changes in your life, this is the perfect time to take advantage of opportunities. Make the most of it! Happy New Year!

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