33 Inspiring January Quotes To Welcome This Chilly Month

January is a month when we get to start afresh! It is a time when many people make new year’s resolutions and start new projects with fresh zeal and enthusiasm.

If you are looking for new opportunities, this is the perfect month to explore your ideas. New beginnings are always a good time.

January is typically a slow month in the business world, so if you are launching your product or service this month, you may want to consider having a steady revenue stream going before your big launch date.

There is no better time for you to think about starting your own business this year.

Read out 33 inspiring January quotes to welcome this snow month

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

2. “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

3. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ― Plato

4. “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

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

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

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

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

9. “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” ― Stewart Stafford

10. “No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.” ― Suze Orman

11. “Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

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

13. “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.” ― Richard Adams

14. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ― Josiyah Martin

15. “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” ― Stewart Stafford

16. “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

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

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

19. “January? The month is dumb. It is fraudulent. It does not cleanse itself.” ― Anne Sexton

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

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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” ― Roald Dahl

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

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

27. “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

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

29. “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

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

31. “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

32. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ― Plato

33. “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

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