Dry Erase Wall Quotes for January 2022: A Perfect Time to Reflect via your Dry Erase Painted Wall

Starting each morning by reading an inspiring, funny, or thought-provoking quote from your dry erase wall is a great way to get off on a positive note to handle life’s daily challenges. The month of January symbolizes positive thinking, fresh energy, and a new path to follow during the year ahead. January is also a perfect time to think about the changes you may make in your life to give it new meaning and value for you and the world at large. You can make the most of January’s potential for creating exciting new changes, elevating your thoughts, and lifting your mood by regularly posting one of the following observations on your dry erase wall.

Thoughts on the Month of January for your Dry Erase Painted Wall

1. “Welcome January: January is a time of quiet and new beginnings, the perfect time to reflect on how you want to live your life.”
– Anonymous

2. “January is 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 (US novelist and short-story writer)

3. “January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.”
– M. L. Stedman (Australian author)

4. “Feeling a little blue in January is normal.”
– Marilu Henner (US actress, producer, radio host, singer, podcaster, and author)

5. “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 (US author, journalist, and naturalist)

6. “Welcome January; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
– 2 Corinthians 5:17 (Holy Bible)

7. “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.”
– Vita Sackville-West (English novelist, poet, and journalist)

8. “Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth.”
– Jane Smiley (US novelist)

9. “Married in January when the year is new, he’ll be loving, kind, and true.”
– New Zealand Proverb

10. “I like starting projects in January. That’s the best time to start something. It’s so inward.”
– Carolyn Chute (US writer and populist political activist)

11. “January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.”
– Anne Truitt (US sculptor)

12. “I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”
– Helen Fielding (English novelist and screenwriter)

13. “January: Sparkling winter sunshine, face all aglow, making resolutions, and angels in the snow, steaming cups of cocoa, a year that’s fresh and new, all of this is magic unfolding just for you.”
– Anonymous

14. “If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers. February is for doers.”
– Marc Parent (French-Canadian business executive, mechanical engineer, and philanthropist)

15. “January 26th — the day when nothing remarkable happens to anyone else.”
– Ashley Newell (Canadian fiction writer), Freakhouse
On Mother Nature in January

16. “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 (US author and magazine editor)

17. “January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.”
– Sara Coleridge (English author and translator)

18. “It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.”
– Wallace Stevens (US poet and insurance executive)

19. “January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, a frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.”
– Edgar Fawcett (US novelist and poet)

20. “Through the chill of December, the early winter moans, but it’s that January wind that rattles old bones.”
– John Facenda (US broadcaster and sports announcer)

21. “I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.”
– Jade Jagger (British-French jewelry designer, home designer, and former model)

22. “Like January weather, the years will bite and smart, and pull your bones together to wrap your chattering heart.”
– Dorothy Parker (US poet, writer, critic, and satirist)
Thoughts on the New Year’s Holiday and the New Year

23. “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 (US author)

24. “No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.”
– Charles Lamb (English essayist, poet, critic, and antiquarian)

25. “The first day of January always presents to my mind a question more easily asked than answered: How have I improved the past year and with what good intentions do I view the dawn of its successor?”
– Charlotte Brontë (English novelist and poet)

26. “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 (US clergyman, social reformer, and speaker)

27. “This is a new year, a new beginning. And things will change.”
– Taylor Swift (US singer-songwriter)

28. “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 (US writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer)

29. “Every man should be born again on January first. Start with a fresh page.”
– Henry Ward Beecher (US clergyman, social reformer, and speaker)

30. “I thought one of the perks of having a family was that you didn’t have to spend New Year’s Eve alone with Chinese food.”
– Miranda Hobbes (fictional character on the US TV series Sex and the City)

31. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton (English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic)

32. “May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early.”
– Aleister Crowley (English author, occultist, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer)

33. “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous New Year by believing.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach (US author, philanthropist, and public speaker)

34. “I would say happy New Year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.”
– Robert Clark (US novelist and writer of nonfiction)

35. “A New Year — a fresh, clean start. It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on.”
– Bill Watterson (US cartoonist)

36. “In order to be successful in the New Year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude and be passionate with your dreams.”
– Bamigboye Olurotimi (Nigerian writer, poet, and technologist)

37. “Somewhere along the way, I realized that the New Year doesn’t begin for me in January.”
– Betsy Cañas Garmon (US artist, life coach, and speaker)

38. “It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.”
– William Thomas (Welsh actor)

39. “Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So, let’s just wish each other a New Year.”
– Judith Crist (US film critic and academic)

40. “A new heart for a New Year, always!”
– Charles Dickens (English writer and social critic)