156 Inspirational Quotes for the Holidays to Warm Your Heart

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

- W. C. Jones

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"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

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

- Peg Bracken

"Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."

- Oren Arnold

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

- Kris Kringle

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

- Mother Theresa

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

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

- Lidia Bastianich

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

- Mary Ellen Chase

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

- Mary Martin

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

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- J.L.W. Brooks

"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 a together-y sort of holiday."

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

"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

"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

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

- Toni Sorenson

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Agnes M. Pahro

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Taylor Caldwell

"From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other."

- Emily Matthews

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

- Norman Wesley Brooks

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."

- Brad Paisley

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Helen Steiner Rice

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

- Edna Ferber

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

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"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

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."

- W.T. Purkiser

"Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace."

- Todd Stocker

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

- Marcel Proust

"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

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

- Buddy the Elf

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

- T.A. Barron

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

- Edith Wharton

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

- James Keller

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Not what we say about our blessing, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."

- W.T. Purkiser

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?"

- Charlie Brown

"Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot."

- Hausa Proverb

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life."

- Melody Beattie

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

- Freya Stark

"Love the giver more than the gift."

- Brigham Young

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

- Garrison Keillor

"Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over."

- Guy Finley

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Washington Irving

"For it is in giving that we receive."

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Amy Adams

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending."

- Fred Rogers

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

- William Arthur Ward

"When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or you take them with gratitude."

- Gilbert K. Chesterson

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light."

- Moshe Davis

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

- Nachum Braverman

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole Earth."

- Bahá’u’lláh

"Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness."

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- John Roy

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

- Caroline Kennedy

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

- Marianne Williamson

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

- May Sarton

"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

"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

"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

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

- Henry van Dyke

"That's the one good thing about regret: it's never too late. You can always change tomorrow if you want to."

- Claire Phillips

"No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change."

- Russell Simmons

"This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait."

- Natalie Goldberg

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

- Sara Coleridge

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Marie Landry

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

- John Wooden

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

- Germany Kent

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

- Jean Reno

"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share."

- W. Clement Stone

"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

"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

"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 gotta find your best self and when you do, you gotta hold on to it for dear life."

- Cheryl Strayed

"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

"You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind."

- Hillary DePiano

"Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome."

- Amelia Barr

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember."

- Ginni Rometty

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

- Buddha

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

- Bob Hope

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

- Larry Wilde

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

- Chris van Allsburg

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A holiday is an opportunity to journey within."

- Prabhas

"Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing."

- Judy the Elf

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."

- Bryant McGill

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people."

- Barbara Bush

"Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness."

- Mo Rocca

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others."

- Alfred North Whitehead

"Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am always responsible for how I handle what happens to me."

- Zig Ziglar

"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important."

- Mary Kay Ash

"A situation will keep repeating itself until you have learned the lesson it was meant to teach you. Don't stay in the same class forever."

- Chris P. Gardner

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Rachel Hollis

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

- Bertrand Russell

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- William Shakespeare

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

- Napoleon Hill

"Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered."

- Phyllis Diller

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

- Jane Austen

"Accept challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

- General George S. Patton

"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

- Les Brown

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Victor Borge

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

- Mia Hamm

"Sometimes the little things in life mean the most."

- Ellen Hopkins

"There are only 2 options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in between."

- Pat Riley

"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently."

- Lance Secretan

"I realized I was more convincing to myself and the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say."

- Ursula Burns

"Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life."

- Lindsey Bareham

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

- Jim Davis

"The best is yet to come."