50 Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Holiday Season

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Buddy the Elf

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

- Buddy the Elf

"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. Pahro

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- William James

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Kevin Alan Milne

"If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

- Love Actually

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

- W. C. Jones

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

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

- Valerie S. Johnson

"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 Christmas-time."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Washington Irving

"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

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Love the giver more than the gift."

- Brigham Young

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

- Freya Stark

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Norman Wesley Brooks

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

- Dale Evans

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Thomas S. Monson

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

- Mary Ellen Chase

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

- Helen Steiner Rice

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

"Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

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

- Maya Angelou

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home."

- William Jewett Tucker

"For it is in giving that we receive."

- Francis of Assisi

"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

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

- Chris van Allsburg

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

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Frank Cross

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

- Marianne Williamson

"This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!"

- D.M. Dellinger

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

- Toni Sorenson

"At Christmas, a man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here; Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime."

- Edgar Guest

"I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled."

- Paula Poundstone

"This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."

- Taylor Caldwell

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

- Nora Roberts

"Dear George: Remember — No man is a failure who has friends."

- It's a Wonderful Life

"It’s Christmas Eve and we are going to celebrate being young and being alive."

- The Holiday

"That's what Christmas memories are made from, they're not planned, they're not scheduled, nobody puts them in their Blackberry, they just happen."

- Deck the Halls

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Amy Adams

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Winston Churchill

"Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday."

- Gladys Taber

"I love holidays. It’s such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing."

- Toni Collette

"I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."

- Maya Angelou

"I love the fact that everybody slightly changes during the holidays. Most people are a little bit brighter and have a little bit more cheer around this time and are a little bit more giving, so I love that."

- Jordin Sparks

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

- James Keller

"Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism."

- Caroline Kennedy

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Shirley Sallay

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

- Muhammad Ali

"Holidays–any holiday–are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together."

- Lidia Bastianich

"A joy that is shared is a joy made double."

- John Roy

"We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365."

- Mary Martin

"Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday."

- Winnie the Pooh

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Nachum Braverman

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

- John Boswell

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"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

"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season."

- Darren Criss

"A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward, to reset oneself by an inner compass."

- May Sarton

"A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun."

- Louisa May Alcott

"In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands."

- T.D. Jakes

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

- Bob Hope

"I’m a minimalist. I don’t really need much to enjoy a good holiday – just my family and the bare essentials."

- Jean Reno

"One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth."

- Zooey Deschanel

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

- Don Marquis

"This time of year means being kind to everyone we meet, to share a smile with strangers we may pass along the street."

- Betty Black

"For families across the country, today marks the beginning of a joyous time to reflect on the rich African-American culture and to remember the principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith—principles that reflect our most cherished values as Americans."

- Barack Obama

"We need about seven days to figure out who we are and where we’re at and love each other. It’s a time for reflection to help us try to figure out how we’re gonna enjoy the next year."

- Chuck D.

"If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important."

- Bertrand Russell

"Christmas is more than just December 25th. It’s a season of happiness, love, and anticipation… if you haven’t started celebrating yet, you’re LATE!"

- Olivia Danchik

"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

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- Stephen Graham Jones

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

- Richard Paul Evans

"New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday."

- Charles Lamb

"The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles."

- Lemony Snicket

"Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice."

- T.S. Eliot

"The holiday reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people’s culture."

- Maulana Karenga

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

- Garrison Keillor

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

- Larry Wilde

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

- Bob Phillips

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

- Christmas with the Kranks

"Later in the winter I’d tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different."

- Marie Landry

"The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale."

- Vera Nazarian

"Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness."

- Mo Rocca

"The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food."

- Rachel Hollis

"On Hanukkah, the first dark night, light yourself a candle bright. I’ll you, if you will me invite, to dance within that gentle light."

- Nicholas Gordon

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

- Sara Coleridge

"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

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

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

"May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah."

"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."

"I hope you will enjoy this marvelous holiday to the fullest. May you find a million reasons to be happy today and every day. Happy holiday!"

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

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

"Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included."

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