Dry Erase Wall Quotes for January 2022
During the month of January, the quotes you put up on your dry erase wall can come in handy for keeping you motivated to fulfill your New Year’s resolutions. Having inspirational, thought-provoking, or poetic quotes regularly posted on your wall may give you the added mental and emotional boost you need to overcome personal and professional obstacles. Especially in the cold, gray days of January, a quote may be able to offer you a quick, well-timed burst of insight or awareness to get you back on task. It could supply the antidote for a bout of low energy, supplying the stimulus you need for a given day or circumstance. An especially pithy or meaningful quote can deliver inspiration for an entire week and egg you on when your natural enthusiasm begins to falter.
Motivational Dry Erase Quotes Give Us Hope
Most of us read motivational quotes and identify ourselves with the words. We see our own reflections in the quotes. Communications experts even suggest that this trait is biological, that it’s hard-wired into our brains. The nature of human beings is to aspire to greater things by imitating successful people. In other words, we look up to and try to be like leaders, whether they’re spiritual, political, professional, or otherwise. Our desire to identify ourselves with others is a primal urge in all of us.
For this reason, quotes from great writers, scientists, educators, and the like give us faith that we, too, will succeed just like they have. Of course, not all of the quotes offered below are by people world-renowned in their fields. But they can nonetheless give you a sense of positivity or provoke a new thought process at times when you need encouragement. If you get into the habit of regularly posting quotes in your office, kitchen, schoolroom, or other area where you have a dry erase wall, you may be surprised at the benefits you’ll gain.
Good Things about January
“January is a great time to remind yourself of your achievements from the past year. Celebrate how amazing you are every day, and this may attract positivity throughout.”
– vTutor
“Flights, theatres, two-for-one deals at restaurants — everything is cheaper in January.”
– Katy Horwood
“Little January
Tapped at my door today.
And said, “Put on your winter wraps,
And come outdoors to play.”
Little January
Is always full of fun
Until the set of sun.
Little January
Will stay a month with me,
And we will have such jolly times —
Just come along and see.”
– Winifred C. Marshall, January
“Awards season — The Critics Choice Awards, The Golden Globes, The Baftas – who said January isn’t glam?”
– Katy Horwood
Starting Over in the New Year
“Forget about everything you did wrong last year — January is the first of twelve chapters ready to be filled. Make them count!”
– GoodtoKnow
“New Year ceremonies are designed to get rid of the past and to welcome the future. January is named after the Etruscan word janua, which means ‘door.'”
– New Year’s Customs
“In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better person.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Each age has deemed the newborn year The fittest time for festal cheer.”
– Sir Walter Scott
“Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.”
– Alex Morritt
“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
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful. And don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
– Neil Gaiman
“The first of January rolls around
Like clockwork it appears
I find its timing most profound
As it brings us each new year
Right on time, It’s never late
Has never ever blown it
Apparently this wise old date
Refuses to postpone it
Drink a toast to January one
For annual consistence
It’s coming means the old year’s done
Let’s drink to its persistence.”
– Stanley Cooper, Happy New Year, 1926
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”
– Josiyah Martin
“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
“Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is.”
– Temitope Ibrahim
“Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.”
– Charlotte Eriksson Beecher
“Ah, New Year’s Eve, the evening of little miracles. Take away the dazzling fireworks, the celebrations, the drinking, and the countdowns and what you are left with is hope, small human hope. The hope of better days, of fresh starts, and perhaps, if you are very lucky, a kiss.”
– Beau Taplin
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”
– Goran Persson
“You have the pencil and paper in your hand, you write the story of the upcoming year. May your story be a year filled with positive happenings and successes, with few erase marks and full of exclamation marks.”
– Theodore W. Higginsworth
“When you see a new year, see realities and limit fantasies!”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“With the dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.”
– Holly Black
“Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.”
– Michael Josephson
“This month presents an opportunity to leave all your mistakes behind. Now, you can say that those blunders took place’ last year.’ And that means they happened ages ago.”
– vTutor
“Never make a resolution which won’t be as important on the eighth of April or the tenth of July as it is on the first of January.”
– Cary Grant
“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.”
– Steven Spielberg
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”
– Anais Nin
“It’s not the resolutions you make once a year that matter, but the ones you make with every single breath.”
– Beau Taplin
The Natural World in January
“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: 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.”
– Laynni Locke