Inspiring Holiday Quotes to Brighten Your Season

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

- James Keller

"A holiday is an opportunity to journey within."

- Prabhas

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

- Agnes M. Pahro

"The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle."

- Robert Atlinger

"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

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

- Nachum Braverman

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

- Norman Wesley Brooks

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

- John Boswell

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

- Mohammed Ali

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

- David Cameron

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Bob Hope

"Love the giver more than the gift."

- Brigham Young

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Edith Wharton

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Thomas S. Monson

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

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

- Richard Paul Evans

"I’ve always loved Christmas and that’s not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It’s always a magical time and I’m unashamed in my love for Christmas."

- Martin Freeman

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Washington Irving

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Lidia Bastianich

"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

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

- Mary Martin

"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

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

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"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."

- Frank Cross, Scrooged

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind."

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- W.T. Ellis

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving."

- B. C. Forbes

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

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"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

"Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be…Christmas is a state of mind."

- Lauren Myracle

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

- Kevin Alan Milne

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Burton Hills

"Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree."

- Charlotte Carpenter

"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."

- Eric Sevareid

"It will, we’ll keep our Christmas merry still."

- Walter Scott

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

- Emily Matthews

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay."

- Ralph Blane

"Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Christmas Day is the festival of optimism."

- Helen Keller

"Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing."

- Grace Noll Crowell

"Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures."

- Winston Churchill

"The only blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart."

- Helen Keller

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

- May Sarton

"The bell still rings for all who truly believe."

- Chris Van Allsburg

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

- John Roy

"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

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

- Chris Van Allsburg

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Joan Mills

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

- Alexander Smith

"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."

- Adele Comandini

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Amy Adams

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

- Richard Paul Evans

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

- Harlan Miller

"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

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together."

- Rosie Thomas

"I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance."

- TobyMac

"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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"The Christmas bells from hill to hill answer each other in the mist."

- Alfred the Great

"And so this is Christmas…what have you done?"

- John Lennon

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

- Thomas Tusser

"A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small."

- Eva K. Logue

"Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let it unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes."

- Toni Sorenson

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

- Carrie Latet

"Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness."

- Mo Rocca

"Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are."

- Debasish Mridha

"Vacations are necessities, not luxuries."

- Linda Bloom

"I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food. They make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival."

- Alexander Babinets

"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul."

- Jamie Lyn Beatty

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

- Larry Wilde

"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

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you dare to lose sight of the shore."

- André Gide

"There’s nothing crazier than a Christmas tree all lit up."

- Jenny Han

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

- Vera Nazarian

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

- St. Augustine

"My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean."

- Nina Arianda

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet."

- Rachel Wolchin

"A wise man travels to discover himself."

- James Russell Lowell

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."

- Paulo Coelho

"It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time."

- David Brenner

"I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"The secret of success is making your vacation your vacation."

- Mark Twain

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia."

- Evan Esar

"It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times."

- Asian Proverb

"Find what brings you joy and go there."

- Jan Phillips

"Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less, and vacation MORE!"

- Lea Mishell

"Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before."

- Dalai Lama

"Jet lag is for amateurs."

- Dick Clark

"When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person."

- Aimee Friedman

"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I’m on vacation, there is no schedule."

- Kelly Clarkson

"Last year, I came away from the vacation thoroughly bloated and ten pounds heavier, convinced I’d blocked an artery and possibly shortened my lifespan by a few months. But I was also deliriously content, which is surely what it’s all about."

- Cash Peters

"People don’t take trips; trips take people."

- John Steinbeck

"Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing."

- Frank Tyger

"A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work."

- Morris Fishbein

"As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation."

- John Battelle

"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking."

- Earl Wilson

"Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need."

- Jerry Smith

"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."

- Sydney J. Harris

"What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life."

- Joseph Brodsky

"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation."

- Laura Marano

"One-week vacations are too short to prevent burnout; by the time you relax enough not to think about the office, the week is almost up."

- Cecilia Mikalac

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

- Kenneth Grahame

"After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation."

- Michael Zadoorian

"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me."

- Will Wright

"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."

- Robert Orben

"No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don’t feel like I’m on vacation unless I’m dehydrated and covered with sunscreen."

- Chelsea Cain

"Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"

- Zig Ziglar

"When all else fails, take a vacation."

- Betty Williams

"Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."

- Gary Allan

"Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated positive energy!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation."

- Nora Roberts

"Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation."

- Zig Ziglar

"A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic."

- Max von Sydow

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

- Milton Berle

"Every man who possibly can force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

- William James

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

"The true spirit of Christmas is love."

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

"I need a 6-month vacation, twice a 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."

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

"Vacation calories don’t count."

"Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not."