25+ January Quotes to Inspire Your New Year

January is here, and this year it seems to be more welcome than it’s ever been. In addition to marking the beginning of a new year, January is often a time when many of us set resolutions for self-improvement. For others, January provides a welcome respite from the hectic energy of the holiday season.

Regardless of your rationale, there is a lot to celebrate in January. This year, we’ve collected some of the best January quotes to uplift and inspire your journey of personal growth this year.

On Finances

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

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

On the Weather

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

There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. — Bill Skarsgard

There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn’t exist in LA. Sometimes I don’t know if it’s February or April or October, because you’re always sitting outside on the same patio, and it’s 70 degrees. — Alexander Skarsgard

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

January brings the snow, Makes our feet and fingers glow. ― Sara Coleridge

Like January weather, The years will bite and smart, And pull your bones together To wrap your chattering heart. ― Dorothy Parker

On Resolutions

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

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

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

Every January we see these fad diets promoted. These aren’t promoting healthiness, these aren’t promoting a way of embracing exercise and eating fruit and veg and doing things which will actually help people. — Jo Swinson

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

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

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

On Self Reflection

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

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

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

On New Beginnings

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

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

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

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

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

On the Meaning of January

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. ― Wallace Stevens