80 Hello January Quotes to Inspire Your New Start
January marks a fresh start and a chance to set new goals, so we’ve gathered all the best January quotes for your next post. And if you’re looking for short and inspiring sayings to kick off the new year, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Our Favorite January Quotes
“January is the coolest month of the year for most of the Caribbean. . . daytime highs are typically comfortably hot, while the nights remain warm.” – Liz Osborn
“January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” – Stewart Stafford
“January 26th. The day when nothing remarkable happens to anyone else.” – Ashley Newell
“The year is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter waiting to be written.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding.” – C.J. Cherryh
“I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.” – Jade Jagger
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
“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
“On the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take interest in the things that are and are to be, and not in the things that were and are past.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“January is the key to a year of wonder.” – Unknown
“January is not about perfection; it’s about progress and growth.” – Unknown
“Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” – Michael Josephson
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” – Craig Lounsbrough
“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 day 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.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“January, month of empty pockets! … let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.” – Colette
“I killed my ex lovers and buried to my memories’ grave. It is January and I am tired of being brave.” – Arzum Uzun
“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
“There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.” – Bill Skarsgard
“Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
“It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground.” – Charlotte Eriksson
“One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.” – Shirley Ann Grau
“In January a man crawls into a cave of hopelessness; he hallucinates sympathies catching fire. Letters are glaciers, null frigates, trapping us where we are in the moment, unable to carry us on toward truth.” – Carlene Bauer
“There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.” – Hal Borland
“Married when the year is new, He’ll be loving, kind and true . . . Married in January’s roar and rime, Widowed you’ll be before your prime.” – New Zealand Proverb
“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
“Little January Tapped at my door today. And said, “Put on your winter wraps, And come outdoors to play. Little January Is always full of fun; Until the set of sun. Little January Will stay a month with me And we will have such jolly times – Just come along and see.” – Winifred C. Marshall
“January is the quietest month in the garden. … But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.” – Rosalie Muller Wright
Inspirational January Quotes
“I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.” — Jerry Spinelli
“No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.” — Charles Lamb
“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” — Ellen Goodman
“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
“If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers.” — Marc Parent
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter waiting to be written.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.” – Jerry Spinelli
“New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” – Alex Morritt
“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
“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
“If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers.” – Marc Parent
“Somewhere along the way, I realized that the new year doesn’t begin for me in January.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential.” – Ellen Goodman
“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
“Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.” – Temitope Ibrahim
Welcome January Quotes
“Welcome, January! A new year and a new chance to chase our dreams.”
Welcome January! Nice to see you!
Welcoming January one day at a time
Welcome January: Chapter 1 of 12
“January brings the promise of a fresh start; let’s embrace it with open hearts.”
“Hello, January! Time to set new intentions and welcome the unknown.”
“Welcome the new year with a smile and a grateful heart.”
“January is a blank canvas; let’s paint it with our dreams.”
“Here’s to January, the month of new beginnings and fresh opportunities!”
“January is the time to start anew, to renew our faith, and generate hope.”
“Welcome, January! A month for new beginnings.”
“In January, we welcome new beginnings and fresh perspectives.”
“Say hello to January—the month of fresh starts and new goals!”
“January is the month that gives us hope for the future.”
“Cheers to January! Let’s make it a month of joy and new adventures.”
“January is not just the start of a new year, but the start of new possibilities.”
“January is the month where we welcome the hopes of tomorrow.”
“Cheers to January! Let’s welcome new opportunities and adventures.”
Famous Quotes About January
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” — Jean Paul
“Feeling a little blue in January is normal.” — Marilu Henner
“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” — Sara Coleridge
“January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, a frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.” — Edgar Fawcett
“January is the quietest month in the garden. But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.” — Rosalie Muller Wright
“January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.” — M.L. Stedman
“January is the month for dreaming.” — Jean Hersey
Quotes for Awareness Holidays in January
New Year’s Day (January 1)
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” — Neil Gaiman
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot
Poverty Awareness Month (January 1 – January 31)
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” — James Baldwin
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” — Mother Teresa
“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest.” — Nelson Mandela
Self-Love Month (January 1 – January 31)
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” — Brené Brown
“Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.” — Fred Rogers
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (3rd Monday of January)
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
