The turn of the New Year is a time for reflection, hope and new beginnings. It’s a chance to look back on the past year and all that has happened, while also looking ahead to all the possibilities that the coming year holds.
Some people like to start the year off with resolutions, others enjoy winter sports, and still others simply appreciate the change of pace that comes with a new year. No matter what your January looks like, these quotes will help you appreciate all that this month has to offer.
Hello January Quotes List
If you’re looking for some inspiration, here are 51 hello January quotes to help motivate you through January!
Whether you’re gearing up for a fresh start or just trying to stay positive, these hello January quotes will inspire you to make the most of this New Year.
| “January is the blank canvas of a new year. You can start over, paint it however you want.” -Unknown |
| “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” -Rainer Maria Rilke |
| “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” -T.S. Eliot |
| “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 |
| “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 |
| “There’s something magical about January… a fresh start, a new chapter, a new beginning.” Unknown |
| “January: The standard month for proving how strong your resolution to start eating right, getting in shape, and opening your heart is.” Dauvoire |
| “New Year’s Day: A fresh start. A new chapter. A new page.” Unknown |
| “A new year brings with it new horizons.” Unknown |
| “January is the door to the year.” Emily Dickinson |
| “OUT with the old, IN with the new!” -Unknown |
| “New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new possibilities present themselves.” Mr. Wizard |
| “Every morning we are born again. What we do today matters most.” -Unknown |
| “I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” Henry David Thoreau |
| “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.” Edward Stanley |
| “January: the perfect time to write ‘Hello’ at the top of a fresh page.” Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke |
| “New year a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” Alex Morritt |
| “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” Benjamin Franklin |
| “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” Charles Lamb |
| “A year ago everything was so different.” Unknown |
| 22. “Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.” Henry Ward Beecher |
| “Resolutions are most often made because we feel less than satisfied with how we have lived our lives up to this point.” Richard Andersen |
| “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work required, cracks to be patched, and maybe some furnishing to be thrown out.” Ellen Goodman |
| “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “No one can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” -Maria Robinson |
| “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 |
| “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 |
| “Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.” Jean Paul Richter |
| “January: The gateway to new beginnings.” Unknown |
| “A new year brings new blessings.” Unknown |
| “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” Joey Adams |
| “New year, new chapter, new page.” -Shane Koyczan |
| “New year, new me.” -Unknown |
| “In those past New Year days when we were young together We put white roses in each other’s hair.”-Alice Duer Miller |
| “New Year’s Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of creation. Time itself seems confused and does not agree as to whether this year has ended or begun.” — Voltaire |
| “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 Rod |
| “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” Unknown |
| “January: the day after Christmas when all your money is gone.” Unknown |
| “One more start. One more try. One more resolution.” Unknown |
| “New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” Smokey Robinson |
| “A new year is like a blank canvas, and you can paint it any way you want.” -Unknown |
| “A new year brings not only happiness, it makes us strong and hopes alive for a better tomorrow.” -Lailah Gifty Akita |
| “Bringing in the New Year is like cleaning the slate and being given another chance to fix everything that you messed up last year.” -Edan Lepucki |
| “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie |
| “I think it’s time for a change. It’s time to start over. This is my January moment.”- Darren Hardy |
| “The old year has passed away, and the new year lies before us like a blank book. Fill it with interesting stories.”- Unknown |
| “January: the standard opening line of a New Year’s letter.” Ambrose Bierce |
| “A good beginning makes a good ending.” English Proverb |
| “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” T.S. Eliot |
| “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” Lao Tzu |
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