50 Inspirational Christmas Quotes to Warm Your Heart This Holiday Season

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

- Dale Evans Rogers

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light."

- Judy Garland

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

- Amy Carmichael

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

- Clement Clarke Moore

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Washington Irving

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Dale Evans

"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 is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace."

- Pope Francis

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

- Charles M. Schulz

"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

"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

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

"What is Christmas? It is the tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."

- Agnes M. Pharo

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

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"If you want to experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer nothing in return."

- Toni Sorenson

"For it is in giving that we receive."

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Edna Ferber

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Mary Ellen Chase

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Dickens

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Thomas S. Monson

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

- Alexander Smith

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

- Hugh Martin

"'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

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

- W.T. Ellis

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

- Roy L. Smith

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

- Edna Ferber

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Burton Hills

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."

- Khalil Gibran

"Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it. You feel it. You know it. You remember it."

- Kevin Alan Milne

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Everyone can experience the joy and blessing of generosity; because everyone has something to give."

- Jan Grace

"Oh, Christmas isn't just a day. It's a frame of mind."

- Miracle on 34th Street

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

- Garrison Keillor

"Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference."

- Kathy Calvin

"This bell is a wonderful symbol of the spirit of Christmas as am I. Just remember the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart."

- Santa Claus

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."

- Charles Dudley Warner

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

- Helen Steiner Rice

"A cheerful heart is good medicine."

- Proverbs 17:22

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself."

- Honoré de Balzac

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime."

- Charles Dickens

"Love the giver more than the gift."

- Brigham Young

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

- Peg Bracken

"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."

- Agnes M.

"The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start."

- Kelly Clarkson

"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

"Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive."

- Robert Lynd

"And we are better throughout the year for having in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted rather to feel something on Christmas day."

- Toni Morrison

"And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time."

- Jesus

"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Pindar

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

- Moliere

"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

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

- Bob Hope

"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion."

- Ralph W. Sockman

"Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul."

- Caroline Kennedy

"Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."

- Taylor Caldwell

"Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving."

- B.C. Forbes

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

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts."

- Lenora Mattingly Weber

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."

- It's a Wonderful Life

"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Valerie S. McCullough

"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

"It’s not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season."

- Julieanne O’Connor

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Tom Baker

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

- W. C. Jones

"Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart."

- Freya Stark

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

- Norman Wesley Brooks

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

- David Cameron

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

- Dale Evans

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

- Helen Steiner Rice

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"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

"No one should be alone on Christmas."

- Cindy Lou Who

"Christmas is a together sort of holiday."

- Pooh

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

- Buddy the Elf

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light. From now on, your troubles will be out of sight."

- Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Pope John XXIII

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

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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

- Agnes M. Pahro

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

- Peg Bracken

"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

"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

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

- János Arany

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

- Plato

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."

- Mencius

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

- George Washington

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

- Washington Irving

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

- Confucius

"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. Rundel

"Merry Christmas, nearly everybody!"

- Ogden Nash

"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

"But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted, rather, to feel something on Christmas Day."

- Toni Morrison

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Kindness in words creates confidence."

- Laozi

"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

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

- Harlan Miller

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

- Charles Dickens

"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

"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

"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."

- E. B. White

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

- Thomas Tusser

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

- George Washington

"We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible."

- Nachum Braverman

"I sincerely hope your Christmas...may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings…"

- Jane Austen

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

- John Keats

"Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour."

- John Boswell

"Charity begins at home."

- Proverb

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

- Deborah Whipp

"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

"It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement."

- Markus Zusak

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature."

- Andy Rooney

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

- Bob Phillips

"A light heart lives long."

- William Shakespeare

"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

"The holly and the ivy, when they are both full grown, of all the trees that are in the wood, the holly bears the crown."

- Traditional Carol

"Great thoughts come from the heart."

- Luc de Clapiers

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It’s the holiday season. Let the overeating begin!"

- Melanie White

"Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of this day – the birth of Santa?"

- Matt Groening

"God is in the details."

- Mies van der Rohe

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

- Shirley Temple

"There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?"

- Conan O’Brien

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

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

"Love conquers all; let us too yield to love."

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us."

"May the Spirit of the Holidays be with you throughout the New Year."

"Christmas is all about getting together. So why not bring a laugh or two along for the ride?"

"Brace Your Elves – Christmas is coming."

- Unknown

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