Top 125 Inspirational January Quotes & Sayings 2023

Inspirational January Quotes

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a ‘better man’.’

– Benjamin Franklin

‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.’

– Albert Einstein

‘Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.’

– Oscar Wilde

‘Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.’

– Oprah Winfrey

‘One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this – to rise above the little things.’

– John Burroughs

‘Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.’

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.’

– Michael Altshuler

‘He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.’

– F. M. Knowles

‘I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.’

– Henry Moore

‘May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!’

– Joey Adams

‘The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. ‘

– P. J. O’Rourke

‘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

January Quotes

‘Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.’

– Charlotte Eriksson

‘Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.’

“January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,

A frost-mailed warrior

striding a shadowy steed of snow.”

–  Edgar Fawcett

“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

“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, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“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

“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, Editor of Sunset Magazine, 1/99

“There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter.  One is the January thaw.  The other is the seed catalogues.”

–  Hal Borland

“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

Best Quotes For January

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot

and never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

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, Auld Lang Syne

“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, January Morn

“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, A Riddle – On Snow

“The twelve months…

Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,

Showery, Flowery, Bowery,

Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,

Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.”

–  George Ellis

“Every man should be born again on the first day of January.  Start with a fresh page.  Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first day of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.”

–  Henry Ward Beecher

“The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!”

–  Edward Payson Powell

“The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;

The times are winter, watch, a world undone:

They waste, they wither worse; they as they run

Or bring more or more blazon man’s distress.

And I not help.

Nor word now of success:

All is from wreck, here, there, to rescue one—

Work which to see scarce so much as begun

Makes welcome death, does dear forgetfulness.

Or what is else?

There is your world within.

There rid the dragons, root out there the sin.

Your will is law in that small commonweal…”

–  Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Times Are Nightfall, Look, Their Light Grows Less

“That grand old poem called Winter”

–  Henry David Thoreaqu

“January brings the snow,

Makes our feet and fingers glow.”

–  Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse

“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 the time for home.”

–  Edith Sitwell

Born In January Quotes

“In the sniffed and poured snow on the tip of the tongue of the year

That clouts the spittle like bubbles with broken rooms,

An enamoured man alone by the twigs of his eyes, two fires,

Camped in the drug-white shower of nerves and food,

Savours the lick of the times through a deadly wood of hair

In a wind that plucked a goose,

Nor ever, as the wild tongue breaks its tombs,

Rounds to look at the red, wagged root.”

–  Dylan Thomas, January, 1939

“Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.”

–  John Boswell

For the Lakota Sioux (Eastern U.S.) the month of January was the period of  “The Hardship Moon.”

“Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,

and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.”

–  Plutarch, Moralia

“We stand watching the yellow leaves go queer,

flapping in the winter rain,

falling flat and washed. …

I tell you what you’ll never really know:

all the medical hypothesis

that explained my brain will never be as true as these

stuck leaves letting go.”

–  Anne Sexton, The Double Image

“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.”

–  Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;

Improve each moment as it flies!

Life’s a short summer, man a flower;

He dies, alas! how soon he dies!”

–  Samuel Johnson, Winter – An Ode

“Look into the garden,

Where the grass was green;

Covered by the snowflakes,

Not a blade is seen.

Now the bare black bushes

All look soft and white.

Every twig is laden-

What a pretty sight!”

“Winter is icumen in,

Lhude sing Goddamm,

Raineth drop and staineth slop,

And how the wind doth ramm !

Sing : Goddam.”

–  Ezra Pound, Ancient Music

“Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.

For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;

Spice it with love and stir it with care,

And I’ll toast our bright eyes,

my sweetheart fair.”

–  Minna

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