100 Best Christmas Quotes to Get Yourself in the Holiday Spirit

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

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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

Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white.'

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

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

Love the giver more than the gift.

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

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.

Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it — you feel it. You know it. You believe it.

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

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home.

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

May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.

We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.

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.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

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

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

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

The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas it is young.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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

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

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

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

Christmas, my child, is love in action.

At Christmas, all roads lead home.

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

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

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.

Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

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

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

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

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

For it is in giving that we receive.

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

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

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.

As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

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.

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

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

The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.

Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.

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

There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.

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

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

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

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

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.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

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

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

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

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

Christmas works like glue; it keeps us all sticking together.

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.

Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.

Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.

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.

We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life's busy ways.

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

A joy that is shared is a joy made double.

You can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.

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

There’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.

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

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

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of year you've had – it's a fresh start.

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

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique and gone too soon.