101 Inspirational Christmas Quotes for Families, Friends and a Wonderful Holiday

Christmas is just around the corner.

A special time of the year when joy and hope gets a boost even though December may be a month filled with dark and cold days.

A time when we reconnect with family and friends and focus on remembering what matters the most in life (and on plenty of good food).

It can also be a time of stress and of worries. Of feeling overwhelmed.

To help you with all of that and to make this a holiday of happy and meaningful but also relaxing and recharging days I’d like to share 101 of the most inspirational Christmas quotes.

These beautiful and uplifting sayings – that you can use for personal inspiration but also for your Christmas cards and social media posts – will help you to slow down and to truly appreciate the big and small joys of this time of year.

Inspirational Christmas Quotes

“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

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made – fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.”
– Gladys Bagg Taber

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill

“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 becomes for us the magic of Christmas.”
– W.C. Jones

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.”
– Don Marquis

“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
– Edna Ferber

“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 don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.”
– Carrie Fisher

“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“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 may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance.”
– Augusta E. Randel

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
– Marjorie Holmes

“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.”
– Grace Noll Crowell

“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things.”
– Edward McKendree Bounds

“Christmas, my child, is love in action.”
– Dale Evans Rogers

“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

Inspirational Christmas Quotes for Families and Friends

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
– Garrison Keillor

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens

“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

“Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
– Freya Stark

“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 Severeid

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
– Burton Hills

“Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.”
– Mother Teresa

“There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something besides ourselves.”
– Linus Van Pelt

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”
– Charlie Brown (from A Charlie Brown Christmas)

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
– Ruth Carter Stapleton

“Christmas is a time to take stock of the good things in life.”
– Reese Witherspoon

“Christmas is family, love, hope, and happiness all wrapped up in one.”
– Eva Carr

“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

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it — you feel it, you know it, you believe it.”
– Kevin Alan Milne

“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 a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller

“The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.”
– James Dobson

“That’s the one good thing about regret: It’s never too late. You can always change tomorrow if you want to.”
– Claire Phillips (from the movie Scrooged)

Inspirational and Beautiful Thoughts and Sayings on Christmas

“Christmas is a spirit that flows from one heart to another. It is more precious than rubies and better than gold.”
– Agnes M. Pahro

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
– Peg Bracken

“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
– Janice Maeditere

“Christmas is a time when everybody wants to be home, even the people who don’t have one.”
– Carrie Fisher

“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 joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
– Pope Francis

“Christmas is a piece of home you carry in your heart.”
– Donna VanLiere

“Christmas is a season for kindness, a time for sharing, a time for giving.”
– Beth Pearson

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Robert Greenleaf

“Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking.”
– Patricia Clafford

“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and too soon gone.”
– Deborah Whipp

“Christmas is happiness that lights up the world.”
– Dorothy Thompson

“The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Christmas is a time for remembering, sharing, and growing.”
– Richard Rohr

“Christmas is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

”When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things — not the great occasions — give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
– Bob Hope

“Christmas is a feeling true friends share with laughter and love to show that they care.”
– Helen Steiner Rice

“Christmas is a time to heal broken relationships and create new bonds.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“Christmas is a time for cherishing those who bring so many blessings to our lives.”
– Mary Engelbreit

“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’
– Bing Crosby

Inspirational Quotes for a Joyful December and a Merry Christmas

“December is the month of joy, the month of giving, the month of gathering.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.”
– Phillips Brooks

“In December, the spirit of giving becomes more pronounced.”
– Betty Wright

“December is a time for stories, sharing and believing.”
– Rachel Joyce

“The joy of December lies in the anticipation of Christmas.”
– Unknown

“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.”
– John Geddes

“December’s first snow is like magic.”
– Victoria Green

“Christmas Day is in our grasp, as long as we have hands to clasp! Christmas Day will always be, just as long, as we have we! Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand!”
– Dr. Seuss

“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December; evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
– Lisa Kleypas

“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
– Fennel Hudson

“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
— Vivian Swift

“A joyful December is the best way to end the year.”
– Charles Dickens

“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleef

“December, with its cold winds and warm hearts.”
– Jennifer Chiaverini

“December: a month of lights, snow and feasts; time to make amends and tie loose ends.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“Welcome winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets

“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 time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell

“December, the last dance of the year.”
– Unknown

“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux

Short Inspirational Christmas Quotes

“Christmas magic is silent.”
– Charles Dickens

“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice

 “A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”
– John Roy

“During the holiday season, in fact all year long, wrap yourself around another’s presence, not presents.”
– Christine E. Szymanski

“Christmas is the spirit of giving.”
– Brigham Young

“Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas eve.”
– Carrie Latet

“Christmas is a gift of time.”
– Robert Paul

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
– Richard Paul Evans

“Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope.”
– Robert Lynd

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
– Roy L. Smith

“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”
– Will Ferrell

“Christmas is the season of joy, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“Christmas is a state of mind.”
– Mary Ellen Chase

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“For it is in giving that we receive.”
– Francis of Assisi

“Christmas is a time for miracles.”
– Walt Disney

“Christmas is giving from the heart.”
– Kevin Alan Milne

“Christmas is a bridge of hope.”
– Maya Angelou

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
– Alexander Smith

“Don’t get caught up in the wrapping paper and forget that the gift of the Christmas season is simply love.”
– Toni Sorenson

“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still.”
– Rachel Cohn

“Christmas is pure wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton

Want more inspiration and help? Have a look at these positive workplace quotes, the short, deep and meaningful quotes in this post and also this one with 5 tips on how to reduce holiday stress.