60 Inspirational January Quotes For A Positive Start

Looking for inspirational quotes for January 2025? We have rounded up the best collection of Inspirational January quotes, sayings, captions, status messages, and wishes (with images and pictures) to begin your new year on a positive note.

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Starting your day on an inspiring morning thought is a great way to spend your day positively. The month of January is a symbol of positive thoughts, fresh energies, and new resolutions for the year ahead.

These inspirational Jan quotes will truly motivate you to cheer up to new beginnings for a fresh start in life. If you are looking for more uplifting quotes, check these super inspirational quotes to encourage you.

Top 10 January Quotes for 2025

“Slow as molasses in January.” — Unknown
“Trust the magic of new beginnings.” — Unknown
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“January is the month for dreaming.” — Jean Hersey
“January 1st is the first page of a 365-page novel.” — Unknown
Inspirational January Quotes
“January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” — Stewart Stafford
“Feeling a little blue in January is normal.” — Marilu Henner
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato
January Inspirational Quotes
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” — Sara Coleridge
“I blink January’s lashes and gush down December’s cheeks” — Sanober Khan

Inspirational January Quotes

“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” — Josiyah Martin
“January? The month is dumb. It is fraudulent. It does not cleanse itself.” — Anne Sexton
“It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.” — Wallace Stevens
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paul Coelho
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter waiting to be written.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“ I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.” — Jerry Spinelli
“‘Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.’” — Charlotte Eriksson
“Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page.” — Henry Ward Beecher
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“January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.” — M.L. Stedman
“I like starting projects in January. That’s the best time to start something. It’s so inward.” — Carolyn Chute

Positive January Quotes

“Welcome January: January is a time of quiet and new beginnings.” — Unknown
“In January, you can start again. Trade in the past for the future.” — Elaina Marie
“January is the month when everyone goes back to being themselves.” — Byron Pulsifer
“January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year.” — Minnie Richard Smith
“January is the beginning of a book with 365 blank pages. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley
“January is the perfect month for wishing yourself the highest good in whatever you do.” — Remez Sasson
“January is the month for taking chances, making dreams happen, and believing in miracles.” — Chinh D. Chu
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
“Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.” — Charles H. Spurgeon
Inspirational Quotes For Month January
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” — Jean Paul
“No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.” — Suze Orman
“I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.” — Helen Fielding
“If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” — Roald Dahl
“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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“January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.” — Edgar Fawcett
“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
“Like January weather, The years will bite and smart, And pull your bones together To wrap your chattering heart.” — Dorothy Parker
“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
“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
“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

Motivational January Quotes And Sayings

“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
“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, 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
Positive January Quotes
“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
“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
“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
“Leaving any bookstore is hard . . . especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth.” — Jane Smiley
“January: Sparkling winter sunshine, face all aglow, making resolutions, and angels in the snow – steaming cups of cocoa, a year that’s fresh and new…all of this is magic – unfolding just for you.” — Unknown
“New Year’s resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.” — Romesh Ranganathan
“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
“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
“Welcome January. Welcome day at a time. New month. New year. New Chapter. New Lessons. New blessings. New beginning. New mindset. New focus. New intentions. New inspiration. New opportunities. New results.” — Unknown
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Bare branches of each tree on this chilly January morn look so cold so forlorn. Gray skies dip ever so low left from yesterday’s dusting of snow. Yet in the heart of each tree waiting for each who wait to see new life as warm sun and breeze will blow, like magic, unlock springs sap to flow, buds, new leaves, then blooms will grow.” — Nelda Hartmann
“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 is the quietest month in the garden. … But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. The soil, open to the sky, absorbs the pure rainfall while microorganisms convert tilled-under fodder into usable nutrients for the next crop of plants. The feasting earthworms tunnel along, aerating the soil and preparing it to welcome the seeds and bare roots to come.” — Rosalie Muller Wright