150+ January Quotes – Best Quotes to Inspire your January

Welcome to our collection of 150+ january quotes — the best inspirational quotes to kick off your new year with motivation and joy. Whether you are looking for january quotes about new beginnings, funny new year quotes about resolutions, or beautiful winter sayings, you will find them all here organized by theme. Pair them with our uplifting positive quotes for a double dose of inspiration.

January is named after Janus, the ancient Roman god of beginnings, gates, and transitions — famously depicted with two faces, one looking to the past and one to the future. It became the first month of the year when Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar in 45 BC, and the tradition of New Year resolutions dates back to the Babylonians, who made promises to their gods at the start of each year some 4,000 years ago. Learn more about the month’s fascinating history on Britannica’s January page.

From laugh-out-loud takes on broken resolutions to deeply moving reflections on fresh starts, these january quotes capture everything we love about the year’s opening chapter. Browse the themed sections below to find the perfect words for your cards, captions, and New Year toasts.

Inspirational January Quotes

Start your year with purpose. These inspirational January quotes about new beginnings, fresh starts, and motivation will fuel your resolutions all year long. But what exactly makes January such a powerful moment for inspiration? Psychologists point to the “fresh start effect” — the way temporal landmarks like New Year’s Day convince our brains that we have a clean slate, making us more likely to pursue meaningful goals. That is why inspirational January quotes resonate so deeply right now: they give vivid language to the hope, determination, and quiet optimism so many of us feel when the calendar turns.

January is named for Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions, depicted with two faces looking both backward and forward — a perfect metaphor for the reflective-yet-hopeful mood of the month. These quotes lean into that duality: honoring what the past year taught us while turning decisively toward what’s next. Whether you’re setting ambitious resolutions, recovering from a hard year, or simply craving a mindset reset, the right words at the right moment can genuinely shift your trajectory. Use these quotes as journal prompts (write for five minutes on whichever line grabs you), as phone wallpapers for daily encouragement, or as the opening slide of a January team meeting. And remember the research: people who articulate their goals clearly — even just by copying an inspiring quote into a planner — are significantly more likely to follow through. Let these words be the first small step of a year you’re proud of.

The start of every new year brings you closer and closer to your dreams and aspirations. May this be the breakthrough year that your dreams finally become a reality. Wishing you a happy 1st January!

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. — Bernard M. Baruch

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius

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

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. — Paul Dudley White

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. — Plato

Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. — John Locke

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. — Arthur Helps

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy. — Dwight L. Moody

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. — William James

New Year, new beginnings, welcome January.

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

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

Fitness is like marriage. You can’t cheat on it and expect it to work. — Bonnie Pfiester

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path. — Gautama Buddha

Hello, January, it’s a fresh start!

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. — Charles Lamb

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin

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

We pass through this world but once. — Stephen Jay Gould

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ — Muhammad Ali

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. — Socrates

One of my favorite little sayings is, ‘To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.’ — Robert M. Gates

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. — Albert Einstein

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

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, but it is also the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. — John F. Kennedy

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. — Lao Tzu

Welcome, January, one day at a time.

Somewhere along the way, I realized that the new year doesn’t begin for me in January. The new and fresh has always come for me in the fall. Ironically, as leaves are falling like rain, crunching beneath my feet with finality, I am vibrating with the excitement of birth and new beginnings… My year begins in autumn. — Betsy Cañas Garmon

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live in. — Jim Rohn

The less you talk, the more you’re listened to. — Pauline Phillips

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. — Henry David Thoreau

Keep calm and hello January!

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

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

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. — William James

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. — Stephen R. Covey

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing. — Zhuangzi

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — to rise above the little things. — John Burroughs

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

Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen. Together you have a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. — Ausonius

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Number one is just to gain a passion for running. To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. — Pat Tyson

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. — Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is a habit — cultivate it. — Elbert Hubbard

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. — Michael Altshuler

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

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. — Wayne Gretzky

Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. — Abraham Lincoln

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

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. — Henry Moore

Funny January Quotes

Let’s be honest: January is funny. The gym is packed for exactly eleven days, the diet starts on Monday (which Monday? unclear), and everyone’s personality has been temporarily replaced by a vision-board version of themselves. These funny January quotes embrace the comedy of New Year optimism colliding with cold, dark reality — the resolutions, the Dry January attempts, the motivational quotes we post while eating leftover holiday cookies. If inspirational January quotes are the pep talk, these are the knowing wink that says we’re all in this together.

Humor is actually one of the best tools for surviving January. The month can feel long — post-holiday letdown is real, the days are short, and spring feels impossibly far away. A funny quote shared in the group chat or posted as a meme does genuine psychological work: it normalizes the struggle, builds connection, and takes the pressure off perfection. These are perfect for social media captions (January content performs well because everyone relates), for lightening up a workplace wellness email, or for defusing your own resolution guilt with laughter. Pair a funny one with a sincere one from the section above and you’ve got the full January experience: ambition with a sense of humor about it. After all, the goal isn’t a perfect January — it’s a human one.

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

Hello, January, please be awesome!

If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it’s gonna be cold. You don’t panic when the thermometer falls below zero. — Peter Lynch

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

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

If it’s not supportive, positivity, or coffee… I don’t want it.

Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots. — Gardening Saying

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

New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. — Mark Twain

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

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

Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. — Helen Fielding

My most embarrassing moment was when I was a student at Tufts University and decided to go ‘streaking’ with a group of girls in the middle of January. Somehow I lost them and ended up being chased by the campus police.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. — Dave Barry

Stop letting them not let you.

New Year’s resolutions have always been something to beat me 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

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

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. — Oscar Wilde

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

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February. — Gary Cole

You can’t party all the time — especially in January! — Neon Hitch

Anxiety is a liar. Breathe my beautiful friend. You got this. It will be okay.

January, the month of empty pockets!… The tourist is ruined by his equipment before even reaching the mountain-slope; what use will they be, those deep, buttoned, leather-lined pockets? Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead. With a diver’s courage more than one woman this month plunges into some neglected chest, into wardrobes given over to darkness and camphor. The purse may be empty but one must nevertheless keep up with the spring fashions… — Colette

Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde

I’m declaring it… If cellulite is normal and cute on babies, it’s normal and cute on me.

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

But then I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you? Since, because it’s an extension of New Year’s Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. — Helen Fielding

In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we’re doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, ‘I have to buy this gift… I can’t show up at this party and not have something for everybody.’ — Suze Orman

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool. — F.M. Knowles

January 26th. The day when nothing remarkable happens to anyone else. — Ashley Newell

Beautiful Winter January Quotes

There is a stark, quiet beauty to January that no other month can claim, and these winter January quotes are odes to it. Stripped of autumn’s color and spring’s promise, the January landscape — frost on the window, breath visible in the air, the particular blue of a winter dusk — invites a contemplative mood that these quotes capture perfectly. Writers and poets have long been drawn to January’s minimalism: it’s the month of clean lines, long nights made for reading, and a natural world at rest.

These beautiful quotes work wonderfully as captions for winter photography (snowy scenes paired with the right line are endlessly shareable), as inspiration for a cozy reading nook refresh, or as gentle companions for January journaling. There’s also a mindfulness angle worth noting: winter’s enforced slowness — the early darkness, the cold that keeps us inside — can be reframed as an invitation rather than a punishment. Many of these quotes do exactly that, finding warmth in the season’s austerity. If January tends to bring you down, try a small ritual: each evening, read one winter quote and note one beautiful thing you noticed that day. It’s a tiny practice, but by February you’ll have a collection of light gathered in the darkest month — which is, in its way, the whole point of these quotes.

When one reads a poet in January, it is as lovely as when one goes to walk in June. — Jean-Paul Friedrich Richter

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow-crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs. — Roman Payne

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

With bright or somber gear, with smile or frown or song, in a masque, the months go gliding perpetually along. First January is here, with eyes that keenly glow — a frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow… — Edgar Fawcett

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

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; he will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. — Robert Frost

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. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour. — Vita Sackville-West

The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is in deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, out of these gawky flitterings, intones its single emptiness, the most savage hollow of winter-sound. — Wallace Stevens

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

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

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

Snow is diamonds for a faery’s feet; blithely and bonnily she trips along, her lips a-carol with a merry song, and in her eyes the meaning… Life is sweet! — Ruby Archer

Here’s to thee, old apple tree, whence thou mayest bud, whence thou mayest blow, whence thou mayest bear apples enow. — Wassailing Songs, England, January 5th

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; a candle burned. — Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago

You’d be so lean, that blasts of January would blow you through and through. — William Shakespeare

Should auld acquaintance be forgotten and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgotten and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we’ll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. — Robert Burns

January, in ermine cloak, with crystal spangles dight, he gave the queen an ivy crown, and her fair shoulders white he happ’d with tender ferny moss from many a cozy nook, or from the rounded boulders warm beside the frozen brook. — James Rigg

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

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, it’s long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. — Hal Borland

From heaven I fall, though from earth I begin. No lady alive can show such a skin. I’m bright as an angel, and light as a feather, but heavy and dark when you squeeze me together. Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear, yet many poor creatures I help to insnare. Though so much of heaven appears in my make, the foulest impressions I easily take. My parent and I produce one another, the mother the daughter, the daughter the mother. — James Parton

Happy January Wishes & New Year Greetings

The new year deserves to be greeted properly, and these Happy January wishes and New Year greetings give you the words for every card, text, email, and toast the season requires. January is peak greeting season — New Year’s Day messages, back-to-work emails, birthday wishes for January babies, and general “hope your year is off to a great start” notes all cluster in these first weeks. Having the right wish ready means you’ll actually send it instead of letting the moment pass.

What makes a January greeting land? Warmth plus specificity. The best wishes in this collection go beyond generic “Happy New Year!” to name something real: health, courage, rest, adventure, peace — whatever you genuinely hope for the recipient. They’re organized for easy browsing: pick a heartfelt one for close family, a cheerful one for colleagues, a short one for texts. For 2027, consider pairing a greeting with a small intention — “wishing you a year of…” is more memorable than a plain greeting because it shows you thought about them specifically. And don’t forget January birthdays (Capricorns and Aquarians!): a new-year birthday is easy to overlook, so a dedicated wish means double. Send the message; future you will be glad you did.

You are a very enthusiastic person, you imagine positive things instead of negative things, this is what you are, and that is why I love you so much. You are a good and positive being. I pray for you so that this new month does not stop starting something new in your life. Amen.

Hope that all your troubles and pain last only as long as your New Year resolutions. Happy 1st January!

Your wishes will come true because you are a dream of your parents come true on a new year’s day. Happy birthday.

Hello, January, make my dreams come true.

Never stop celebrating because you brought a fair resolution to the lives of many on the day you were born.

Wishing you a happy 1st January with the hope that you will have many blessings in the year to come.

January born birthday means you are amazing and incredible enough to be synonymous with a happy new year.

Good morning. It is time to jump out of bed, brush your teeth, eat your breakfast and get ready to grab all the opportunities that will come your way. Happy first good morning of 1st January!

All roads lead to your home today because you are celebrating a new year and a birthday party that welcomed us in it.

Goodbye December, hello January!

I met love, health, peace & joy. They needed a permanent place to stay. I gave them your address — hope they arrived safely. Happy 1st January.

You must be on top of the world because you share birthdays with every beautiful birthday wish of January and a new year that is just beginning.

I hope today is just the beginning of a beautiful year for you. Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, dear — may the years not make you older but wiser. My best wishes.

Goodbye January, and hello February.

Today is a special day because you exist in my life. Happy birthday.

A dear friend, today I want to wish you a happy birthday and blessings.

May God give you many blessings today and always. May your dreams come true, and may you have much peace, love, and hope.

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More January Quotes

Still looking for the perfect January quote? This final collection gathers even more January quotes, sayings, and captions to make sure you find exactly the right words. Sometimes the quote you need isn’t inspirational or funny or wintry — it’s just the one that sounds like how you feel on a random Tuesday in mid-January, when the novelty of the new year has worn off but spring is still a rumor. These additional quotes cover that in-between space: reflective, wry, hopeful, honest.

Think of this section as the overflow shelf — every quote here earned its place, and the variety means there’s something for every use case you haven’t covered yet. Need a short January quote for an Instagram caption? A thoughtful line for a bullet journal header? A sign-off for a January newsletter? Browse with your specific need in mind and trust your gut reaction — the quote that makes you pause is the one. And if you’re building a personal collection (a notes file, a Pinterest board, a commonplace book), this is a great section to mine: save five or six favorites now and you’ll have January wisdom on tap for years. When next January rolls around, you’ll be glad past you did the curating.

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy, and Spain, they play right through the season. We, on the other hand, take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

That’s the thing about birth, we don’t get an itinerary. We have to surrender and let go and it’s in that vulnerability we find the courage and strength we forgot we’ve had since our own birth. The power is already in you.

I’m opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I’m launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued ‘Common Sense,’ advocating independence from Great Britain. — Mike Crapo

On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens. — Donald Trump

Who you choose as a provider will play the biggest role in the options, support, and respect you receive through your pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum journey. Choose carefully, be picky as hell, and don’t hesitate to change if needed. Love yourself enough to get the care you deserve. As much as you would for someone else you love. Yes, love yourself that much, darling, because you’re worth it.

Following 25 children for the TV series ‘Child of Our Time’ has been extraordinary. The BBC’s original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000. — Robert Winston

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. — Donald Trump

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

A lot of the listeners don’t realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It’s 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it’s held at the end of January, so you’re talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. — Lou Holtz

Birth is not a competition. We can celebrate all births and all women. The end.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. — Stephen Hawking

I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do. — Colin Farrell

Instead of asking a new parent if their baby is sleeping through the night, which can be a detrimental question, ask them this… ‘How is postpartum going?’

On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world. — Thomas Merton

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — Arthur C. Clarke

It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promise to water, handle with care because I was too careless, you said. Careless with things and people, around me and behind and I remember being still for just a second or two, thinking that it’s so much easier to leave and start a new than take care of what’s already here. — Charlotte Eriksson

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. — György Ligeti

I’ve had six babies as a sexy plus size woman. My vagina never once asked for my BMI. My cervix simply opened because a baby needed to be birthed.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in ’05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That’s how fast it can happen. — Rick Perry

I am in no mood to fulminate on paper — I wish the two of us were in a room together talking of what matters most, the air thick with affinity. 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

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January. — Mark Zuckerberg

I do not care what kind of birth you have… a home birth, scheduled cesarean, epidural hospital birth, or if you birth alone in the woods next to a baby deer. I care that you are supported in your choices and that you were respected.

I’ve lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that’s a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970, has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government. — George Will

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Frequently Asked Questions About January Quotes

What are some good inspirational january quotes?

Try ‘I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.’ by Jerry Spinelli, or ‘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.’ by Edith Lovejoy Pierce. You will find dozens more in our Inspirational January Quotes section above.

What is a funny january quote about new year resolutions?

Mark Twain nailed it: ‘New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.’ The tradition of resolutions goes back some 4,000 years to the ancient Babylonians — read more about New Year history at History.com. See our Funny January Quotes section for more laughs.

Why is January called January?

January is named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions, depicted with two faces looking to the past and the future. It became the year’s first month under Julius Caesar’s calendar reform in 45 BC. Learn more on Britannica’s January page.

What are short january quotes for Instagram captions?

Perfect caption-ready picks include ‘Hello, January, please be awesome!’, ‘New Year, new beginnings, welcome January.’, and ‘Keep calm and hello January!’ — all short, sweet, and ready to post.

January is a blank page, and the pen is in your hand. Whether this year brings bold resolutions or quiet new beginnings, may these january quotes remind you that every ending is just a new start waiting to happen. Here is to making this January — and this year — your best one yet.