110 Inspiring January Quotes To Embark On A New Journey

A new beginning and opportunity to start your life over again, that’s what January is all about.

Today’s article brings you 110 uplifting January quotes that will inspire and motivate you to start a new journey.

These inspiring quotes will encourage you to take your life in a new direction and start the things you’ve been dreaming about.

I went through tons of material and picked only the best January quotes anywhere on the web.

Let’s start exploring!

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Top 10 Most Beautiful January Quotes

Below you’ll find a selection of my personal favorite January quotes. Enjoy!

1. “New year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” — Alex Morritt

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2. “The magic in new beginnings is the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin

3. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” — Stephen King

4. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey

5. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

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6. “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paul Coelho

7. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot

8. “Every man should be born again on January 1. Start with a fresh page.” — Henry Ward Beecher

9. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan

10. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

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Inspirational January Quotes

If you could use an inspiration booster during January days, here are some amazing January quotes that will definitely inspire you.

1. “I like starting projects in January. That’s the best time to start something. It’s so inward.” — Carolyn Chute

2. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

3. “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

4. “With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.” – Holly Black

5. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland

6. “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

7. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “January is a beautiful month, a beautiful way to welcome the new year of life while witnessing the snow outside and feeling the warmth inside your heart.” — Unknown

9. “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

10. “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

11. “The new year is full of possibilities. But it’s important not to rush. Embrace being outdoors in all weather. Enjoy coming back into the warm. Let your mind wander. Sit a while. Open yourself to new ideas. See where that takes you.” — Laura Dunkley

12. “The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more easily asked than answered frequently occurs viz: How have I improved the past year and with [what] good intentions do I view the dawn of its successor?” — Charlotte Brontë

13. “If you want to be happy, set a new year goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie

14. “The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change, we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult, however, to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page.” — R. Joseph Hoffmann

15. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins

January Quotes For Motivation

These motivational January quotes will motivate you to do more, do better, and follow your dreams.

1. “Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” — Michael Josephson

2. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” — Shonda Rhimes

3. “Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” — Sylvia Plath

4. “I’m not the biggest fan of New Year’s resolutions, but I’m a huge backer for real life change – that’s why January gets me so geeked up.” — Mark Schlereth

5. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

6. “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

7. “If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers.” — Marc Parent

8. “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen

9. “I think it would be more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.” — Helen Fielding

10. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley

11. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale

12. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes… you’re Doing Something.” — Neil Gaiman

13. “No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.” — Charles Lamb

14. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma

15. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” — Dwayne Johnson

Uplifting January Quotes For New Beginnings

It’s time to turn a new page, a blank, fresh one, and start writing your own story. These January quotes will be your inspiration.

1. “I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.” — Jerry Spinelli

2. “January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.” — Anne Truitt

3. “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

4. “New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter waiting to be written.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

5. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie

6. “The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

7. “Drop the last month into the silent limbo of the past and thank God that it can go.” — Brooks Atkinson

8. “Welcome January: January is a time of quiet and new beginnings – is the perfect time to reflect on how you want to live your life. January is the perfect time to refocus on your priorities and set goals.” — Unknown

9. 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

10. “Look like she been livin’ through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.” ― Zora Neale Hurston

11. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” — Hillary DePiano

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” — Nancy Hatch Woodward

January Quotes To Keep You Going

If you ever for a second think about giving up, these January quotes will motivate you to pick yourself up and keep going. You got this!

1. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” — Sigmund Freud

2. “I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don’t wait until the New Year.” — Georgina Bloomberg

3. “Feeling a little blue in January is normal.” — Marilu Henner

4. “If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” — Roald Dahl

5. “January is the quietest month in the garden… But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.” — Rosalie Muller Wright

6. “No one has ever achieved financial fitness with a resolution in January that’s abandoned by February.” — Suze Orman

7. “I pray this winter be gentle and kind – a season of rest from the wheel of the mind. “ — John Geddes

8. “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

9. “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

10. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

11. “Leaving a bookstore is hard, especially on a day in January, when the ice is treacherous, the wind is blowing, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth.” — Jane Smiley

12. “A bad day doesn’t mean a bad week or a bad month or a bad year.” ― Anuj Jasani

13. “I killed my ex-lovers and buried them in my memories’ grave. It is January and I am tired of being brave.” — Arzum Uzun

14. “January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester’s bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.” — Patricia Highsmith

15. “Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.“ — Brian Tracy

Positive January Quotes For Encouragement

January is the perfect time to set new goals and start a journey of self-improvement. These encouraging January quotes will boost your motivation.

1. “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

2. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino

3. “Let January open with the joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.” — Charles H. Spurgeon

4. “I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” — Anais Nin

5. “Through the chill of December the early winter moans but it’s that January wind that rattles old bones.” — John Facenda

6. “I’ll never understand why everybody puts so much emphasis on January first. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days in the year that you can make a change.” — Elizabeth Eulberg

7. “January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” — Sara Coleridge

8. “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

9. “Somewhere along the way, I realized that the new year doesn’t begin for me in January.” — Betsy Cañas Garmon

10. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

11. “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

12. “I blink January’s lashes and gush down December’s cheeks.” — Sanober Khan

13. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” — Lao Tzu

14. “The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.” ― Naomi Shihab Nye

15. “New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” — April Mae Monterrosa

Beautiful January Quotes To Improve Your Mood

If you’re looking for positive vibes quotes to improve your mood during January, you’ll find them here.

1. “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

2. “To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” — Jean Paul

3. “The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer.” — Vita Sackville-West

4. “Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

5. “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” — Steven Spielberg

6. “It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.” — Wallace Stevens

7. “Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees, and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.” — Ernest Hemingway

8. “January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, a frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.” — Edgar Fawcett

9. “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

10. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” — Aristotle

11. “Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them.” — Vincent A. Simeone

12. “Let us do something incredible this New Year: Let us try to see the world from the window of other cultures!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan

13. “I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.” — Jade Jagger

14. “December is letting go, of all the past year’s fails, and starting anew in January, as time again chases its tail.” — Stewart Stafford

15. “January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.” — M.L. Stedman

Funny January Quotes To Make You Laugh

Lastly, here are some hilarious January quotes to make you laugh. Check them out!

1. “A good new year goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.” – Mary Kay Ash

2. “Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!” — D.S. Mixell

3. “January, month of empty pockets!” — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

4. “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

5. “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — Bill Vaughn

6. “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” — Stewart Stafford

7. “January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.” — Michael Caine

8. “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.” ― Jim Gaffigan

9. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” — Joey Adams

10. “January is the best time of year for gym owners. You all come. It’s great! And then, by Valentine’s Day, you’re not coming in anymore.” — David Kirsch

Words Of Conclusion

January has a beautiful energy of new beginnings. I hope these uplifting January quotes have inspired you to start a new journey and make your dreams come true.

Until next time!