December Inspirational Quotes: A Heartwarming Collection to Brighten Your Month

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

- Paulo Coelho

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things."

- Maya Angelou

"It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That’s how you win."

- Muhammad Ali

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."

- Oprah Winfrey

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

- Hal Borland

"To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold."

- Aristotle

"I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December."

- Oliver Herford

"Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

"May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Your life is your story. Write it well. Edit it often."

- Susan B. Anthony

"December is a month of enormous potential. It’s a time when we can all give and receive, a time when the spirit of humanity shines brightest."

- Michael Josephson

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

- Mary Ellen Chase

"December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

- Hal Borland

"Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!"

- T.A. Barron

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

- Charles M. Schulz

"Winter forms our character and brings out our best."

- Tom Allen

"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 time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

"December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come."

- Fennel Hudson

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

- Hal Borland

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

- John Steinbeck

"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

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year."

- Vern McLellan

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Buddy the Elf

"What the new year brings to you depends on what you bring to the new year."

- Vern McLellan

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

- J.L.W. Brooks

"Dream big, start small, but most of all, start."

- Simon Sinek

"Don’t count the days; make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"As we look to the new year, hold on to what is good. Let go of what is bad. It really is that simple."

- Mandy Hale

"December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life."

- Vivian Swift

"If we make it through December, everything’s gonna be alright I know; it’s the coldest time of winter and I shiver when I see the falling snow."

- Merle Haggard

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

- Agnes M. Pahro

"You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"New Year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately, we write it. The choice is ours."

- Alex Morritt

"Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes."

- Janelle Monáe

"Good morning, happy first day of December. Keep looking up. That’s the secret of life."

- Charles M. Schulz

"A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last."

- Adam Duritz

"Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting."

- Jane Fonda

"December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there’s anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface"

- Lois Duncan

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness."

- Helen Keller

"December is a month of invitation to forget ourselves in the service of others."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours."

- Beyoncé

"I believe it’s time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them."

- Janelle Monáe

"One of my mantras is, ‘Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.’ I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair."

- Janelle Monáe

"‘Everyone is welcome’ is drastically different from “we built this with you in mind.” People do not want to go where they are merely tolerated; they want to go where they are included."

- Terence Lester

"The empowerment, the affirmation of the dignity of all people, is that which makes true community. it is that which helps make every member flourish."

- Terence Lester

"I think the real power of social change comes through the power of community. That when I offer my gifts and skill sets in collaboration with other people who were being responsible for the role they play in the larger fabric of social change, then together we make a difference."

- Terence Lester

"Authentic dialogue also demands a capacity for empathy. For dialogue to take place, there has to be this empathy."

- Pope Francis

"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities."

- Pope Francis

"Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life."

- Pope Francis

"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

- Jane Fonda

"December is a time for family, for love, and for forgiveness."

- Caroline Myss

"Remember this December, That love weighs more than gold!"

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays."

- Amy Adams

"Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December."

- James Schuyler

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

- J.M. Barrie

"Snow falling in the middle of a December night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity."

- Novala Takemoto

"We declare that human rights are for all of us, all the time: whoever we are and wherever we are from; no matter our class, our opinions, our sexual orientation."

- Ban Ki-moon

"Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free."

- The Dalai Lama

"Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year."

- Charles Dickens

"Joy is not in things; it is in us."

- Richard Wagner

"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays."

- W. C. Jones

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever."

- Walt Disney

"Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus."

- Rod McKuen

"Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration."

- Anamika Mishra

"Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Welcome winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless."

- Terri Guillemets

"Wisdom comes with winters."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"Winter is not a season, it's a celebration."

- Anamika Mishra

"Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas."

- Pope John XXIII

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

- William Blake

"The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination."

- Terri Guillemets

"It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready."

- Sarah Kay

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"December is a month of lights, snow, and feasts."

- Anita Krizzan

"There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus."

- Bob Phillips

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

- Elizabeth Bowen

"November, I’ll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you’re the present beneath my Christmas tree."

- Neil Sedaka

"When snow falls, nature listens."

- Lama Willa Miller

"People with disabilities are not looking for charity; they are looking for dignity."

- Aimee Mullins

"The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle."

- Irving Greenberg

"Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart."

- Hannah Senesh

"Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds."

- Karen Hesse

"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."

- Ben Aaronovitch

"Compassion and empathy are powerful forces in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Let us use them to break down barriers and create a more inclusive world."

- Kiyoshi Kuromiya

"Will you love me in December as you do in May?"

- Jack Kerouac

"We have religious holidays and we have secular holidays. I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit."

- Jessica Harris

"Kwanzaa is a celebration of freedom, of the free space we have created to honor ourselves, to remember, reflect and recommit ourselves."

- Maulana Karenga

"Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders, and the leaders."

- Dorothy Winbush Riley

"There is wisdom and beauty from disabled people everywhere. We just have to look and have the humility to learn."

- Alice Wong

"Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat."

- Sara Coleridge

"I don’t think you should be ashamed of anybody you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I’m a strong believer in that and that’s why I try to do that for everyone I know has the virus."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"There’s no more innovative group of people that I’ve met than disabled people because our innovation, our creativity, our community is how we survive."

- Imani Barbarin

"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug; Heaven knows they need it."

- Princess Diana

"May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December; evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon."

- Lisa Kleypas

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

- Larry Wilde

"In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow."

- Alexander Pope

"It's the most wonderful time of the year."

- Andy Williams

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."

"May your days be merry and bright."

"December is a simple wish that brings spectacular moments."

"A little more fun, a little more love, a little more light every night. That’s the joy of Hanukkah."

"December: A month of lights, snow, coziness, and feasts; time to make amends and tie up loose ends; finish what you started and make your wishes come true."

"Every end is a new beginning."

"The world changes when we change our perspective."

"May the spirit of December fill your heart with joy, your home with laughter, and your life with blessings beyond measure."

- Unknown

"There’s no time like the present to cherish the moment."

- Unknown

"Life is like a snowflake—delicate, beautiful, and fleeting."

- Unknown

"The light in winter is a poetry of patience."

- Unknown

"Happiness is homemade."

- Unknown

"The magic of Christmas is not in the presents but in His presence."

- Unknown

"Christmas is a magical time of year… I just watched all my money magically disappear."

"If kisses were snowflakes, I'd send you a blizzard."

- Unknown

"Baby, it's cold outside."