January has begun.
A fresh start (or restart) for many. A time to chart out what this year will be and what possibilities and opportunities you want to explore.
But it’s also a time of crisp and beautiful winter days and of dark, cold and long nights.
In today’s post I’d like to share 90 of the most positive, motivational and deep January quotes.
To help you make the most of this month and the start of a new year. To help you to keep going towards your dreams and what you deep down need and want despite the oppressive darkness and cold days.
I hope you’ll find something helpful and uplifting here.
Positive January Quotes
“January is the month of new beginnings, new hopes, and renewed faith in the magic of everyday life.”
– Charlie Daniels
“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.”
– Sara Coleridge
“January is the perfect time to reset your life’s compass and chart a new course towards your dreams.”
– Rip Miller
“Every January, I make a fresh start by forgetting yesterday’s troubles and focusing on tomorrow’s possibilities.”
– Elise Green
“Every January sunset writes a poem about hope on the winter sky.”
– Emily Dickinson
“January is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s begin again.’”
– Unknown
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”
– Jean Paul
“January’s crisp air whispers stories of new possibilities.”
– Unknown
“In January, even the smallest ray of sunshine feels like a gift of hope.”
– Sarah Kelly
“The first day of January always feels like a clean, crisp page in a brand-new notebook.”
– Rip Miller
“January is the quietest month in the garden. But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.”
– Rosalie Muller Wright
“In winter, nature teaches us the art of patience and the beauty of stillness.”
– Mary Oliver
“January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.”
– M.L. Stedman
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“January’s cold embrace reminds us that warmth comes from within.”
– Unknown
“January is the month for dreaming.”
– Jean Hersey
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell
Motivational January Quotes for a Successful Month
“No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.”
– Charles Lamb
“Turn January’s challenges into February’s victories.”
– Elise Green
“The first month of the year sets the tone for all twelve – make it count.”
– Unknown
“This isn’t isn’t just a month, it’s your opportunity to write the opening chapter of your success story.”
– Fay Collins
“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
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Start January with determination, end it with satisfaction.”
– Unknown
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
“It’s not about perfection, it’s about progress.”
– Brené Brown
“January’s challenge is not the weather, but your willingness to persist.”
– Rip Miller
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch
“Your January habits become your December achievements.”
– Unknown
“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
“This January, be brave enough to begin what others are afraid to start.”
– Debbie Moore
“Make January your launch pad, not your waiting room.”
– Les Brown
“If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers.”
– Marc Parent
“Make this January the beginning of anything you want.”
– Unknown
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Deep January Quotes
“January teaches us that every ending contains within it a new beginning.”
– Unknown
“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle
“Winter strengthens what summer cannot conquer.”
– Saul Bellow
“The silence of January speaks truths that summer never knows.”
– Anna Davis
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan
“In January’s mirror, we see our truest reflections.”
– Unknown
“January teaches us that growth often begins in darkness.”
– Elise Green
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
“January is the soul’s time for deep reflection and quiet transformation.”
– Fay Collins
“Winter strips things down to their essence.”
– Jennifer McMahon
“January reminds us that life’s greatest changes often begin in stillness.”
– Unknown
“The harshness of January reveals the strength of our character.”
– Rip Miller
“January’s solitude is nature’s invitation to get know ourselves better.”
– Unknown
“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
“January’s darkness is but a canvas for our inner light.”
– Unknown
“That’s what winter is: An exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
Beautiful and Inspirational January Quotes
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“January paints in colors of pearl and poetry.”
– Unknown
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese proverb
“January snowflakes dance like stars in the winter light.”
– Unknown
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“The poetry of January is written in frost and starlight.”
– Sarah Kelly
“January whispers promises of spring in winter’s ear.”
– Alice Jones
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“January teaches us to find beauty in simplicity.”
– Unknown
“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination.”
– Gary Zukav
“January wraps the world in a blanket of pristine possibilities.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
“The first month arrives like a fresh canvas, waiting for life’s art.”
– Debbie Moore
“January’s beauty lies in its ability to make us see magic in the ordinary.”
– Unknown
“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event.”
– J.B. Priestley
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
– Andrew Wyeth
“Each January day is a gift wrapped in silver frost.”
– Louise Finder
“Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring.”
– Jack Kornfield
Short January Quotes
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake
“New year, new chapter, new you.”
– Unknown
“January is the Monday of months.”
– Unknown
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
– Rose Bergman
“January whispers what December shouts.”
– Anna-Beth Mulgrew
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
– E.E. Cummings
“January: nature’s reset button.”
– Unknown
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleeff
“Begin again, begin better.”
– Elise Green
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“In winter, we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.”
– James Ellis
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein
“Never take shortcuts in winter.”
– Bear Grylls
“January dreams bloom in December.”
– Unknown
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Get inside!’”
– Bill Watterson
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”
– Anne Bradstreet
Want more inspiration for the winter season? Then have a look at these 101 inspirational winter quotes, these short January captions and also these beautiful December quotes. Plus these inspirational New Year’s quotes, the short New Year’s captions in this post and the funny New Year’s quotes here.