As soon as the cool air rolls in, you know the holiday season has officially begun. Rather than indulge our inner Scrooge (which, trust, is easy to do), we like to go the route of Buddy the Elf and embrace the Christmas cheer full on. Need a little help getting there? Allow these 80 holiday quotes to instill you with plenty of spirit. (You can also find them on our Inspirational Quotes Pinterest board.)
80 Holiday Quotes to Spread Some Serious Christmas Cheer
Published Nov 8, 2022
1. “Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.” – Dave Barry
2. “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
3. “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase
4. “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on ChristmasDay. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” – Andy Rooney
5. “A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.” –John B. Priestley
6. “Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!” – George Bailey, It’s A Wonderful Life
7. “No! No! I want an official Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred-shot range model air rifle!” – Ralphie, A Christmas Story
8. “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Buddy the Elf , Elf
9. “May your eyeliner be even and your holidays be bright.” – Mary Kay
10. “All I want for Christmas is you.” – Mariah Carey (duh)
11. “Chrismukkah is unruinable. It’s got twice the resistance of any normal holiday.” – Seth Cohen, The O.C.
12. “It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters but who’s around it.” – Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas
13. “Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss, The Grinch
14. “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes
15. “Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
16. “There's coconut in the Hanukkah Menor-eos.”— Ross Gellar, Friends
17. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr. Seuss
18. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith
19. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.” – Bob Hope
20. “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, Scrooged
21. “I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another.” – Carrie Fisher
22. “Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It's like this tangible thing you can say, ‘Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.’” – Michael Scott, The Office
23. “Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.” – Ellen DeGeneres
24. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
25. “Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind.” – Valentine Davies, Miracle On 34th Street
26. “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” – Richard Paul Evans
27. “Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.” – Clark Griswold, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
28. “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
29. “There's nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.” – Jenny Han
30. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
31. “Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.” – Edna Ferber
32. “We have religious holidays and we have secular holidays. I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African-Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit.”– Jessica Harris
33. “There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.” – Bob Phillips
34. “Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room.” – Nora Roberts
35. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.” – Helen Keller
36. “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore
37. “Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.” – Caroline Kennedy
38. “It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Theresa
39. “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
40. “You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.” – Maya Angelou
41. “Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day to spend in the warm circle of family and friends.” – Margaret Thatcher
42. “Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.” – William Shakespeare
43. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”– Rainer Maria Rilke
44. "My New Year's resolution is to learn how to play guitar. You know those special skills I have listed on my resumé? I would love it if one of those was true." – Joey Tribbiani, Friends
45. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – W.T. Ellis
46. “The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” – W.C. Jones
47. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
48. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank
49. “May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
50. “I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.” – Amy Adams
51. “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
52. “You know what? I am going to be happy this year. I'm going to make myself happy. Every day, I am going to do one thing I have never done before. That, my friends, is my New Year's resolution.” – Ross Geller, Friends
53. “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.” – Victor Borge
54. “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” – Deborah Whipp
55. “Merry Christmas, you filthy animal!” – Kevin McCallister, Home Alone 2
56. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde
57. “The spirit of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is shared by all people who love freedom.” – Norma Simon
58. “I’ll just be hanging around the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed. – Mia, Love Actually
59. “New Year's Day is every man's birthday.” – Charles Lamb
60. “You're skipping Christmas! Isn't that against the law?” – Spike Frohmeyer, Christmas with the Kranks
61. “Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.” – John Boswell
62. “The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.” – Irving Greenberg
63. “There’s something about a holiday that isn’t all about how much money you spend.” – Hilarie Burton
64. “Holidays—any holiday—are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.” – Lidia Bastianich
65. “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
66. "Heap on the wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will. We'll keep our Christmas merry still.” – Sir Walter Scott
67. “This is Christmas spirit, as in spirits, booze.” – Michael Scott, The Office
68. “At the Festivus dinner you gather your family around and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year.” – Frank Costanza, Seinfeld
69. “Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it’s even summertime.” - Mariah Carey
70. “The true beauty of Christmas is revealed when we adore the season, not like some weary adult, but like a bubbly little child.” - Michael Bassey Johnson
71. “Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.” – John J. Geddes
72. “Monica, Monica, have a happy Hannukah.” – Phoebe Buffay, Friends
73. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” –Roy L. Smith
74. “Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases.” – Bridger Winegar
75. “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young
76. “I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
77. “The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light—in a little cruse—lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: Let that nourish my flickering spirit.” – Charles Reznikoff
78. “Polishing my dreidel and searching for oil. Chanukah sameach, everybody.” – Harry Styles
79. “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
80. “Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders and the leaders.” – Dorothy Winbush Riley
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