January is here with its promise of new beginnings.
It’s a time of dreaming big and then taking the first step towards making those dreams real. A time of the future looking more hopeful again if last year wasn’t so good.
But it’s also a time of freezing cold days and long and dark evenings. And the motivational burst that many of us get at the start of the month can soon start to weaken.
So to help you to stay positive and keep moving all month long I’d like to share 101 of the most motivational, funny and positive short January quotes.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here to make this a happy and successful month.
Short Motivational January Quotes and Sayings for a Successful Month
“Make January your launch pad, not your waiting room.”
– Les Brown
“Make this January the beginning of anything you want.”
– Unknown
“No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.”
– Charles Lamb
“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
“This January, be brave enough to begin what others are afraid to start.”
– Debbie Moore
“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
“Start January with determination to end it with satisfaction.”
– Jim Harper
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
“Your January habits will, in time, become your December achievements.”
– Fay Collins
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch
“If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers.”
– Marc Parent
“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
– Mehmet Murat ?ldan
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S Lewis
“The beginning is always today.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
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“January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.”
– Stewart Stafford
“If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”
– Roald Dahl
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
– Rose Bergman
“January is the Monday of months.”
– Unknown
“I think it would be more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”
– Helen Fielding
“January – the month of empty pockets!”
– Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
“I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.”
– Gary Cole
“Lots of people go mad in January. January is the third most common month for madness.”
– Karen Joy Fowler
“New Year’s resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January.”
– Romesh Ranganathan
“January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.”
– Michael Caine
“No one has ever achieved financial fitness with a resolution in January that’s abandoned by February.”
– Suze Orman
“January is the best time of year for gym owners. You all come. It’s great! And then, by Valentine’s Day, you’re not coming in anymore.”
– David Kirsch
“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
“You’d be so lean that the blast of January would blow you through and through.”
– William Shakespeare
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!”
– Joey Adams
“You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.”
– Charlie Brown
“Feeling a little blue in January is normal.”
– Marilu Henner
“I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.”
– Jade Jagger
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up and at ’em!’”
– Robert Byrne
“Winter: My new excuse for everything.”
– Sandra Shea
Short and Positive January Quotes for a Happy Season
“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese proverb
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.”
– Anusha Atukorala
“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
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”
– Jean Paul
“In January, even the smallest ray of sunshine feels like a gift of hope.”
– Sarah Kelly
“January is the quietest month in the garden. But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.”
– Rosalie Muller Wright
“January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.”
– M.L. Stedman
“January is the month for dreaming.”
– Jean Hersey
“The first day of January always feels like a clean, crisp page in a brand-new notebook.”
– Rip Miller
“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
“Little January is always full of fun.”
– Winifred C. Marshall
“I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1.”
– Jerry Spinelli
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux
“January: The month of opportunity, the month of inspiration, and the month of change.”
– Unknown
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“January teaches us that every ending contains within it a new beginning.”
– Unknown
“January is the soul’s time for deep reflection and quiet transformation.”
– Fay Collins
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
“The harshness of January reveals the strength of our character.”
– Rip Miller
“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
“January teaches us that growth often begins in darkness.”
– Elise Green
“Winter strips things down to their essence.”
– Jennifer McMahon
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“That’s what winter is: An exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.”
– Taylor Swift
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination.”
– Gary Zukav
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“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“The beauty of January lies in its simplicity and stillness.”
– Maria Santos
“January breezes have a way of clearing away yesterday’s worries.”
– Mary Oliver
“The first snow of January falls like confetti celebrating new beginnings.”
– Olivia Brown
“In January’s embrace, we find the courage to bloom despite the cold.”
– Isabella Rose
“When nature paints January in white, every day becomes a masterpiece.”
– Unknown
“January mornings sparkle with promise, each frost a reminder of beauty.”
– Sarah Williams
“The crisp air of January kisses your cheeks like an old friend.”
– Unknown
“Snow falling in January is nature’s way of showing us how to start fresh.”
– Kate Morgan
“Snowflakes are winter’s butterflies, dancing through January skies.”
– Unknown
“January sunsets paint the sky in shades of hope.”
– Emma Collins
“Winter whispers secrets only January hearts can hear.”
– Unknown
“Every snowflake that falls in January carries a wish for the new year.”
– Lisa Chen
“January frost turns the world into a lovely crystal palace.”
– Unknown
“January snow brings magic to ordinary moments.”
– Thomas Parker
“January light has a special quality that makes everything shimmer.”
– David Lee
“Each January morning offers a fresh canvas painted in frost.”
– Unknown
“Winter’s artwork decorates January windows with delicate ice flowers.”
– Sophie Martin
“January reminds us that there’s beauty in every season of life.”
– James Wilson
Want more inspiration for your month? Then check out these inspirational January quotes, the short and uplifting winter quotes here and also this one that’s full of positive and beautiful February quotes and sayings.