Inspiring Quotes to Celebrate the Holiday Season

"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

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

- William Arthur Ward

"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

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

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

- Norman Wesley Brooks

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterson

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

- Freya Stark

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

- J.L.W. Brooks

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

- Charles Dickens

"It is Christmas Eve, and we are going to sit out on that patio. We’re gonna make ourselves a little fire, pop some bubbly, and we are gonna celebrate being young and being alive."

- The Holiday

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

- Buddy the Elf

"In the midst of festive decorations, I am reminded that the holiday season is a time to be grateful for life’s simple pleasures—a warm cup of tea, the glow of a fireplace, and the company of those we hold dear."

- Harold

"The laughter of grandchildren and the echoes of their excitement as they unwrap presents bring a touch of magic to the season, keeping the spirit of youth alive in all of us."

- Albert

"During the holidays, we bridge the gap between generations, sharing stories and passing down traditions that connect us through time."

- Mildred

"In the blink of an eye, a lifetime of Christmases passes, yet the joy of the season remains constant—a beacon of hope and love that never dims."

- Henry

"City sidewalks, busy sidewalks dressed in holiday style. In the air, there's a feeling of Christmas..."

- Bing Crosby

"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given – when Christmas Day comes, there is still the same warm feeling we had as children — the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."

- Joan Winmill Brown

"I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier and the giddy even giddier."

- Frosty the Snowman

"Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned, family Christmas."

- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

"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

"I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe, it just needs a little love."

- A Charlie Brown Christmas

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

- Washington Irving

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

- A. A. Milne

"Christmas isn't a date on a calendar: It's a feeling in the heart."

- Toni Sorenson

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

- The Polar Express

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Love Actually

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

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

- Edna Ferber

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

- How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man."

- Robert Hughes

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

- David Jeremiah

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

- Charles Dickens

"God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be, for us, a new and special meeting with God when we allow His light and grace to enter deep into our soul."

- Saint Josemaría Escrivá

"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you."

- Mother Teresa

"The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Mother Theresa

"My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love, which comes at Christmastime, fill our homes and our lives, and linger there long after the tree is down, and the lights are put away for another year."

- Thomas S. Monson

"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Dale Evans

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly: Let Him rejoice."

- Pope Paul VI

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

- Valerie S. McCullough

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

- The Polar Express

"Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist."

- The Santa Clause

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

- W. C. Jones

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

- Agnes M. Pahro

"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

"The most precious gift you can give is your presence. Material things fade, but the time spent with loved ones creates lasting memories."

- Eleanor

"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 is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values."

- Thomas S. Monson

"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

"There's frost on every window. Oh, I can't believe my eyes! And in my ones, I feel the warmth that's coming from the inside!"

- The Nightmare Before Christmas

"A holiday is an opportunity to journey within."

- Prabhas

"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."

- Joanna Gaines

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

- Nora Roberts

"Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

"There's nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up."

- Jenny Han

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

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Nothing seems to bring people together like Christmas."

- Steven Dodrill

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

- Mary Ellen Chase

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

- W.T. Ellis

"Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know."

- Catherine Hicks

"And that, of course, is the message of Christmas: we are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent…"

- Taylor Caldwell

"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 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

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

- Roy L. Smith

"Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer — home."

- W.J. Tucker

"Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve."

- Carrie Latet

"Freshly cut Christmas trees, smelling of stars and snow and pine resin — inhale deeply, and fill your soul with wintry night."

- John J. Geddes

"Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."

- Joan Mills

"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

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

- Tom Baker

"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

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

- Bob Phillips

"Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness."

- Mo Rocca

"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

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

- Victor Borge

"I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin."

- Winston Spear

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

- Kin Hubbard

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

- Henry Youngman

"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

"Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup; peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up."

- Wendy Cope

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

- George Burns

"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, ‘Toys not included.’"

- Bernard Manning

"I left Santa gluten-free cookies and organic soy milk, and he put a solar panel in my stocking."

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

"Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money."

"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."