40 Holiday Quotes and Sayings for Joyful Celebrations
This collection of holiday quotes and sayings features insights from some of the most notable figures, from Caroline Kennedy to Paulo Coelho.
These 40 quotes are sure to inspire you to celebrate and cherish your holiday moments.
Whether you’re looking to reflect on the joy of the season or find a spark of motivation to spend time with loved ones, these phrases from famous authors and thinkers will guide you in appreciating the true spirit of holidays.
Our Favorite Holiday Quotes and Sayings
“The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.” — Ellis Peters
“Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.” — Caroline Kennedy
“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
“If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday.” — Paulo Coelho
“A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.” — Abraham Polonsky
“Take vacations. Go as many places as you can. You can always make money. You can’t always make memories.” — Anonymous
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” — Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Holidays — any holiday — are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.” — Lidia Bastianich
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” — W.C. Jones
“Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.” — Kahlil Gibran
“The holiday season is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year.” — Toni Sorenson
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.” — Phillip Adams
“A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.” — J.B. Priestley
“A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.” — Louisa May Alcott
“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
“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.” — George Bernard Shaw
“There’s something about a holiday that isn’t all about how much money you spend.” — Hilarie Burton
“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us.” — Terri Marshall
“It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.” — David Brenne
“Create peace and joy while releasing holiday grief and loneliness.” — Carolyn Flynn
“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
“For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.” — Alice Freeman Palmer
“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.” — Floyd Tomkins
Inspirational holiday quotes
“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
“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“Love the giver more than the gift.” — Brigham Young
“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
“We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible.” — Nachum Braverman
“The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.” — Ellis Peters
“Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.” — Caroline Kennedy
“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
“If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday.” — Paulo Coelho
“A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.” — Abraham Polonsky
“Take vacations. Go as many places as you can. You can always make money. You can’t always make memories.” — Anonymous
“Holidays — any holiday — are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.” — Lidia Bastianich
“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.” — Phillip Adams
“A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.” — J.B. Priestley
“A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.” — Louisa May Alcott
“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
“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.” — George Bernard Shaw
“There’s something about a holiday that isn’t all about how much money you spend.” — Hilarie Burton
“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us.” — Terri Marshall
“It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.” — David Brenne
“Create peace and joy while releasing holiday grief and loneliness.” — Carolyn Flynn
“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
“For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.” — Alice Freeman Palmer
“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.” — Floyd Tomkins
