94+ Inspirational Christmas Quotes for Family and Friends

Christmas is more than just a season for giving gifts and extending Christmas wishes to your family and friends. It's also a perfect opportunity to truly engage your loved ones with heartfelt Christmas quotes.

These carefully crafted Christmas quotes add a festive touch to your Christmas greetings, evoking feelings of happiness, unity, and the giving spirit that defines the essence of Christmas.

In this blog, we'll explore the art of creating and sharing inspiring Christmas quotes that will leave a lasting impact on your receivers.

Always keep in mind the importance of crafting a unique and personalized Christmas gifts, particularly wooden heart spoon personalized gift for family and friends. These gifts hold the power to leave a lasting impression, showcasing your genuine care and thoughtfulness.

Meaningful Christmas Quotes for Family

• "At Christmas, all roads lead home." – Marjorie Holmes
• "Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together." – Rosie Thomas
• "Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us." – David Cameron
• "Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart." — Freya Stark
• "A modern Christmas card with festive gold polka dots and family photo"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
• "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." – Burton Hills

• "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
• "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 as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." – Janice Maeditere
• "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." – Joanna Gaines
• "I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness." – Carrie Fisher
• "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
• "Your children need your presence more than your presents." — Jesse Jackson
• "Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home." — Carol Nelson

• "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 Christmastime." — Laura Ingalls Wilder
• "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." — Burton Hills
• "For Christmas it is tradition time — traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, the sameness of them all." — Helen Lowrie Marshall
• "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas." — Dale Evans Rogers
• "Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas." — Kin Hubbard

Touching Christmas Quotes for Friends

• "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." – Charles M. Schulz
• "Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It’s discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values." – Thomas S. Monson
• "Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas." – Dale Evans
• Custom Christmas or holiday party invitation with the words Oh What Fun"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
• "As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving." – Gordon B. Hinckley
• "Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." – Peg Bracken

• "Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see." – Chris Van Allsburg (from Polar Express)
• "Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it — you feel it, you know it, you believe it." – Kevin Alan Milne
• "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
• "The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood." – Richard Paul Evans

Short Christmas Quotes For Cards

• "Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind." – Valentine Davies
• "Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store." — Dr. Seuss
• "At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year." — Thomas Tusser
• "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." — Charles Dickens
• "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." — Charles Schulz
• "There's nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up." — Jenny Han
• "Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness." — Mo Rocca
• "Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago." — Tom Baker
• "The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays." — W. C. Jones
• "Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold." — Josephine Daskam Bacon
• "Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." — Edna Ferber
• "Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope." — Craig D. Lounsbrough

• "Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together." — Rosie Thomas
• "Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence." — Joan Mills
• "Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white.' — Bing Crosby
• "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." — Roy L. Smith
• "Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." — Peg Bracken
• "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." — W.T. Ellis
• "Love the giver more than the gift." – Brigham Young
• "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." – W.T. Ellis
• "Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness." – Mo Rocca
• "Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling." – Edna Ferber
• "It’s the most wonderful time of the year!" – Edward Pola and George Wyle
• "Nothing seems to bring people together like Christmas." – Steven Dodrill
• "A good conscience is a continual Christmas." – Benjamin Franklin
• "Christmas, my child, is love in action." – Dale Evans
• "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." – Alexander Smith
• "For it is in giving that we receive." – Francis of Assisi
• "Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold" – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
• "What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day." – Phyllis Diller

Funny Christmas Quotes Make Your Loved Ones Laugh Out Loud

• "I hate the radio this time of year because they play ‘All I want For Christmas Is You’ like, every other song. And that’s just not enough." — Bridger Winegar
• "Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard." — Andy Borowitz
• "Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year." — Victor Borge

• "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
• "I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin." — Winston Spear
• "What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present." — Don Marquis
• "Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name." — Erma Bombeck
• "I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange." — Henry Youngman
• "That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me." — Jerry Seinfield
• "For Christmas this year, try giving less. Start with less attitude. There’s more than enough of that in the world as it is — and people will usually give it back anyway! — Anne Bristow
• "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
• "Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music." — Tom Sims
• "Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup; Peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up." — Wendy Cope
• "Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money." — Unknown
• "Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included."
• "I left Santa gluten-free cookies and organic soy milk and he put a solar panel in my stocking." — Unknown
• "Elf has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, ‘This could be the last movie I ever make,’ and I could never have predicted that it’d become such a popular film." — Will Ferrell
• "There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard." – Dan Florence

• "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
• "A fun, playful Christmas card with red illustrations of ornaments, stars, snowflakes, candy canes, presents and family photos"Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas." – Kin Hubbard
• "What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present." – Don Marquis
• "Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name."  – Erma Bombeck
• "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." – Garrison Keillor
• "I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange." – Henny Youngman
• "Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." – Stephen Graham Jones

Heartwarming Quotes About Christmas

• "Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree." — Charlotte Carpenter
• "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." — Alexander Smith
• "The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start." — Kelly Clarkson
• "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 Bagg Taber
• "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
• "And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent…" — Taylor Caldwell

• "But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did" — Toni Morrison
• "Let us have music for Christmas. Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth; let each of us try, with a song in our hearts, to bring peace to men on earth." — Mildred L. Jarrell
• "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." — Augusta E. Randel
• "Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever." — Bess Streeter Aldrich
• "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
• "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." — Helen Steiner Rice
• "Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day." — Helen Steiner Rice
• "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." — Norman Vincent Peale
• "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." — Garrison Keillor
• "Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling reckless extravagance." — Tove Jansson
• "Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night." — John J. Geddes
• "Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and too soon gone." — Deborah Whipp
• "Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever." — Richelle E. Goodrich
• "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
• "The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There’s a kind of glory to them when they’re all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy." – Andy Rooney

• "Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed." – Ann Garnett Schultz
• "What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future." – Agnes M. Pahro
• A photo Christmas card with a unique arched, art deco design"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon." – Deborah Whipp
• "Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day." – Helen Steiner Rice
• "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." – Roy L. Smith
• "We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime." – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." – Washington Irving
• "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." – Romans 15:13
• "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift." – 2 Corinthians 9:15
• "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." – James 1:17
• "You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell Him you have received His Christmas gift." – John R. Rice
• "All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ." – David Jeremiah

• "May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do." – Rev. Richard J. Fairchild
• "Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home." — WJ Tucker
• "Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values." — Thomas S. Monson
• "Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving." — B. C. Forbes
• "Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away." — Norman Wesley Brooks
• "I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another." — Carrie Fisher
• "Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand." — Dr. Seuss
• "Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." — Washington Irving
• "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 most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most." — Ruth Carter Stapleton
• "Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." — Janice Maeditere

Famous Christmas Quotes From Movies

• "Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to." — Fred Gailey, Miracle on 34th Street
• "Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind." — Miracle on 34th Street
• "Tell her that you love her. You’ve got nothing to lose and you’ll always regret it if you don’t.— Daniel, Love Actually
• "I realized that Christmas is the time to be with the people you love." — Billy Mack, Love Actually
• "But for now, let me say. Without hope or agenda. Just because it's Christmas. And at Christmas you tell the truth. To me, you are perfect." — Love Actually
• "I just woke up thinking about going home with you and got very excited about Christmas." — Abby, The Happiest Season
• "Thank you for trying to get me to like Christmas. I love that you love it. I’m just so content taking care of other people’s pets when they’re away for the holiday." — Abby, The Happiest Season
• "The thing about trains ... it doesn’t matter where they’re going. What matters is deciding to get on." — Conductor, The Polar Express
• "Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see." —The Polar Express
• "Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart." — Santa, The Polar Express
• "This is extremely important. Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back?" — Kevin McCallister, Home Alone

• "This is Christmas. The season of perpetual hope." — Kate McCallister, Home Alone
• "You can mess with a lot of things. But you can’t mess with kids on Christmas." — Kevin McCallister, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal." — Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• "Never be afraid when people can’t see what you see. Only be afraid if you no longer see it." — Jeronicus Jangle, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
• "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." — Frank Cross, Scrooged
• "That’s the one good thing about regret: It’s never too late. You can always change tomorrow if you want to." — Claire Phillips, Scrooged
• "If you’re worried and you can’t sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep. Then you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings." — Bob Wallace, White Christmas
• "You’ll shoot your eye out kid!" — A Christmas Story
• "Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon, which the entire kid year revolved." — Ralphie, A Christmas Story
• "It’s Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive." — Miles, The Holiday
• "It’s Christmas Eve. A time of mystery, expectations, who knows what might happen." — The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
• "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." — Elf
• "We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup." — Elf
• "Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?" — A Charlie Brown Christmas
• "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." — It's a Wonderful Life
• "What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?" — How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• "Some people are worth melting for." — Frozen

• "Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas." — Christmas Vacation
• "Yes! Yes I do! I like Christmas! I love Christmas!" — A Christmas Carol
• "Christmas is just about my favorite time. Ever since I was a little kid, I always felt like it was my own personal holiday." — Ernest Saves Christmas
• "Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it!" — Jack Skellington, The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "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, A Charlie Brown Christmas
• "We’re not just doing this for us. We’re doing it for the kids. For every kid who ever sat on Santa’s lap." —Mall Santa, Jingle All the Way
• "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." — Kelly Finch, Deck the Halls
• "Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday. That’s my favorite kind." – A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
• "You’re skipping Christmas! Isn’t that against the law?" – Spike Frohmeyer, from Christmas With the Kranks

Best Christmas Quotes Inspired by Songs

• "Hurry down the chimney tonight." — Eartha Kitt
• "Holidays are joyful, there’s always something new. But everyday’s a holiday, when I’m near to you." —The Carpenters
• "Although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to you." — Nat King Cole
• "Santa Claus llegó a la ciudad." —Luis Miguel
• "Wherever there are people giving gifts, exchanging cards, I believe that Christmas is truly in their hearts." — Jose Mari Chan
• "A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear." — John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
• "If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel like Christmas all the time." —Faith Hill
• "Feeling Christmas all around, and I'm trying to play it cool." — Ariana Grande

• "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas." — Irving Berlin
• "Have yourself a merry little Christmas." — Judy Garland
• "My world is filled with cheer and you this Christmas." — Donny Hathaway
• "Christmas time is here." — Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi
• "The party's on, the feeling's here that only comes this time of year." — Paul McCartney
• "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." — Meredith Willson
• "There'll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, and caroling out in the snow." — Edward Pola and George Wyle
• "It hasn't snowed a single flurry, but Santa, dear, we're in a hurry." — Jerry Herman
• "I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.—Johnny Marks and Burl Ives
• "There's no place like home for the holidays." — Robert Allen and Al Stillman
• "Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad." — José Feliciano
• "Next year, I could be just as good if you check off my Christmas list." — Eartha Kitt
• "I feel like I'm gonna kiss you standing beneath that mistletoe." — Otis Redding
• "Kiss me on this cold December night." — Michael Bublé

In Short

We hope you enjoyed the collection of Christmas quotes, ready to be shared with anyone you love. Whatever you’re doing, let's do it with joy and excitement when Christmas comes around.

Happy Holiday!