Inspiring Holiday Quotes to Brighten Your Season

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

- Buddy the Elf

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

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- C.S. Lewis

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

- Cesare Pavese

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- J.L.W. Brooks

"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

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

- Toni Sorenson

"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

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

- Marianne Williamson

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

- Norman Wesley Brooks

"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

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

- Love Actually

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- William James

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

- Mary Martin

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life."

- Melody Beattie

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"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

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

- Edna Ferber

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

- Helen Steiner Rice

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

- Taylor Caldwell

"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

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Amy Adams

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

- John Roy

"For it is in giving that we receive."

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Caroline 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

"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 doing a little something extra for someone."

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Lidia Bastianich

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Don Marquis

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Love the giver more than the gift."

- Brigham Young

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

- W.T. Purkiser

"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

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

- Hillary DePiano

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

- Freya Stark

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

- Agnes M. Pahro

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

- Brad Paisley

"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

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

- Cheryl Strayed

"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

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- The Dalai Lama

"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

"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

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"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

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

- John Boswell

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Mohammed Ali

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

- James Keller

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

- Washington Irving

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

- Larry Wilde

"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

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

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"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 stocking stuffed with sugary goodness."

- Mo Rocca

"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

"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

"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

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

- Stinnett

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

- Miriam Beard

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness"

- Mark Twain

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Robert Atlinger

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

- May Sarton

"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

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

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Marie Landry

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

- Rachel Hollis

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

- Buddha

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Bahá’u’lláh

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

- Vera Nazarian

"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

"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

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

- Sara Coleridge

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

- Charles Dickens

"I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it."

- Rosalia de Castro

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Shirley Sallay

"A holiday is an opportunity to journey within."

- Prabhas

"The journey, not the arrival, matters."

- T.S. Eliot

"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Charles Lamb

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

- Charlie Brown

"There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it."

- Paul Theroux

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

- Martin Buber

"To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."

- Charles Horton Cooley

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

- Hausa Proverb

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

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- Chris Van Allsburg

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

- Kevin Alan Milne

"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

"Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome."

- Amelia Barr

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

- Earl Wilson

"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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going."

- Paul Theroux

"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness."

- Martin Buber

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be."

- John Cheever

"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

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

- Nora Roberts

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"He who does not travel does not know the value of men."

- Moorish proverb

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

"The best is yet to come."

"The magic of Christmas never ends and its greatest of gifts are family and friends."

- Unknown

"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!"

"Take a vacation so long, you forget all of your passwords."

- Unknown

"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 love my job only when I’m on vacation."

- Unknown

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

"There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after the holidays."

- Unknown