Kickstart 2026 with these Dry Erase Wall Quotes for January

The “Fresh Start” Collection

• “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato
• “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
• “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart
• “I closed my eyes to look inward and found a universe waiting to be explored.” — Yung Pueblo
• “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
• “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates
• “Whatever you do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
• “Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” — Mary Engelbreit
• “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

Resolution Reality Checks: Habits Over Hype

• “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” — Cavett Robert
• “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
• “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” — Peter Drucker
• You do not decide your future. You decide your habits and your habits decide your future.” — F.M. Alexander
• “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
• “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
• “It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” — Molière
• “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” — Peter Marshall
• “The distance between dreams and reality is called action.” — Unknown

Specifically “January”: Seasonal Wisdom

• “January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.” — M.L. Stedman
• “New Year’s Day… is a more 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 at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin
• “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
• “January is the rubbish heap of regret.” — Patti Smith
• “I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1st.” — Jerry Spinelli

Workplace Productivity: Fueling the Hustle

• “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
• “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King
• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
• “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
• “Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso
• “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
• “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
• “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
• “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” — Paul J. Meyer
• “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” — Tim Ferriss

Discipline Over Motivation: For the Mid-January Slump

• “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” — Seneca
• “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” — Benjamin Franklin
• “If you cannot fly then run, if you cannot run then walk, if you cannot walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
• “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
• “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
• “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” — Robert Tew

Winter Wisdom: Finding Warmth in the Cold

• “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
• “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
• “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?” — Lewis Carroll
• “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck
• “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland
• “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” — Victor Hugo
• “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen

Short & Punchy: Perfect for Small Whiteboard Areas

• “The beginning is always today.” — Mary Wollstonecraft
• “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
• “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
• “Well begun is half done.” — Aristotle
• “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden
• “One day or day one. You decide.” — Unknown
• “Create the things you wish existed.” — Unknown
• “Grow through what you go through.” — Unknown
• “Do it with passion or not at all.” — Rosa Nouchette Carey
• “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” — Steve Jobs

Designing and Maintaining Your Wall

1. The “Hero” Layout: Choose one quote to feature in the center in large block letters.
2. Color Coding: Use Blue for the quote (calm/winter theme) and Red for the author (contrast).
3. Wait for the Cure: If you recently applied Dry Erase paint, wait 3-7 days before writing to avoid permanent damage.
4. Avoid Ghosting: Use high-quality markers and perform a wet clean with whiteboard spray every time you swap out a quote.