100+ Christmas Inspirational Quotes to Warm Your Heart This Holiday Season

"The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things."

- Thomas S. Monson

"Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand."

- Mother Teresa

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

- Mother Theresa

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

"It's Christmas Eve. It's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be."

- Scrooged

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."

- Burton Hills

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

- Calvin Coolidge

"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it."

- Pope Francis

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

- Mother Teresa

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

- Jesse Jackson

"The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays."

- W.C. Jones

"'Maybe Christmas,' he thought, 'doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas ... perhaps ... means a little bit more!'"

- Dr. Seuss

"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting."

- Thomas S. Monson

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."

- Peg Bracken

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind."

- Calvin Coolidge

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year long."

- Charles Dickens

"It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who’s around it."

- Charles M. Schulz

"To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year."

- Joel Osteen

"Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child."

- Amy Grant

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

- Charles Dickens

"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling."

- Edna Ferber

"There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves."

- Thomas S. Monson

"For it is in giving that we receive."

- Francis of Assisi

"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

- Clement Clarke Moore

"We clap hands and welcome the Peace of Christmas. We beckon this good season to wait a while with us."

- Maya Angelou

"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

- Clement Clarke Moore

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."

- W.T. Ellis

"But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”"

- Luke 2:10

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year."

- Thomas Tusser

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old familiar carols play."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

- Roy L. Smith

"Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection."

- Pindar

"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."

- Washington Irving

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

- Bob Hope

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can be shared."

- Cecelia Ahern

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."

- Winston Churchill

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."

- Alexander Smith

"It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love."

- Moliere

"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind."

- Mary Ellen Chase

"And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment."

- Charles Dickens

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Let your heart be light, Next year all our troubles will be out of sight."

- Hugh Martin

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."

- Pierre Corneille

"At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year."

- Thomas Tusser

"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"

- Charles Dickens

"Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day."

- Helen Steiner Rice

"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness."

- Carrie Fisher

"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."

- Dale Evans

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

- Buddy the Elf

"Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it — you feel it, you know it, you believe it."

- Kevin Alan Milne

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung."

- Phillips Brooks

"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future."

- Agnes M. Pahro

"Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day."

- Helen Steiner Rice

"We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’"

- Bing Crosby

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."

- Romans 15:13

"Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift."

- 2 Corinthians

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."

- James 1:17

"You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell Him you have received His Christmas gift."

- John R. Rice

"All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ."

- David Jeremiah

"May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do."

- Rev. Richard J. Fairchild

"Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind."

- Valerie S. McCullough

"Love the giver more than the gift."

- Brigham Young

"Nothing seems to bring people together like Christmas."

- Steven Dodrill

"Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us."

- David Cameron

"Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold"

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold."

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"Christmas Day is in our grasp, as long as we have hands to clasp! Christmas Day will always be, just as long, as we have we! Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday. That’s my favorite kind."

- A. A. Milne

"What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present."

- Don Marquis

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

- Garrison Keillor

"I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!"

- Carolyn Wells

"Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart."

- The Polar Express

"T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

- Clement Clarke Moore

"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another."

- Carrie Fisher

"Christmas, my child, is love in action."

- Dale Evans

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"

- Bob Hope

"What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future."

- Agnes M. Pahro

"Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together."

- Rosie Thomas

"When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things—not the great occasions—give off the greatest glow of happiness."

- Bob Hope

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly."

- Andy Rooney

"The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart."

- Helen Keller

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."

- J.L.W. Brooks

"Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away."

- Norman Wesley Brooks

"Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows."

- Edwin Osgood Grover

"When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It’s discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values."

- Thomas S. Monson

"Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas."

- Dale Evans

"Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand."

- Dr. Seuss

"When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness."

- Bob Hope

"The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving."

- James Cash Penney

"Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it—you feel it. You know it. You believe it."

- Kevin Alan Milne

"As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see."

- Chris Van Allsburg

"The true Christmas spirit is putting others' happiness before our own, and finding you've never known such happiness."

- Toni Sorenson

"Peace on Earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day."

- Helen Steiner Rice

"The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young."

- Phillips Brooks

"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."

- Donald E. Westlake

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."

- Richard Paul Evans

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality."

- Washington Irving

"Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."

- Augusta E. Randel

"Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike."

- Julie Hebert

"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month."

- Harlan Miller

"Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room."

- Nora Roberts

"As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year."

- David Grayson

"Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed."

- Ann Garnett Schultz

"Christmas now surrounds us, Happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks as carols fill the air."

- Shirley Sallay

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick—even when you're home."

- Carol Nelson

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."

- Larry Wilde

"Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together."

- Rosie Thomas

"Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago."

- Tom Baker

"You’re skipping Christmas! Isn’t that against the law?"

- Spike Frohmeyer

"Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas."

- Stephen Graham Jones

"I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange."

- Henry Youngman

"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year."

- Victor Borge

"Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard."

- Andy Borowitz

"Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness."

- Mo Rocca

"That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season."

- Ashley Tisdale

"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."

- Carol Ann Duffy

"He’s making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice, Santa Claus is comin’ to town."

- Haven Gillespie

"During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas."

- Nancy Pearcey

"Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas."

- Johnny Carson

"The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess."

- Tess Gerritsen

"I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands."

- Gina Gershon

"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice."

- Dave Barry

"For Christmas this year, try giving less. Start with less attitude. There’s more than enough of that in the world as it is—and people will usually just give it back anyway!"

- Anne Bristow

"What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."

- Phyllis Diller

"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon."

- Deborah Whipp

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day."

- Andy Rooney

"Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name."

- Erma Bombeck

"Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas."

- Kin Hubbard

"Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music."

- Tom Sims

"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."

- John B. Priestly

"Sending Christmas cards is a good way to let your friends and family know that you think they’re worth the price of a stamp."

- Melanie White

"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."

- Phyllis Diller

"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases."

- Bridger Winegar

"I hate the radio this time of year because they play “All I Want For Christmas Is You” like, every other song. And that’s just not enough."

- Bridger Winegar

"It’s the most wonderful time of the year!"