Christmas is just around the corner.
A time filled with joy, cozy days and nights and plenty of fun with family and friends. But it can also be a bit of a stressful time of the year with work to finish up and preparations for the holidays.
So in today’s post I’d like to help out a bit with those preparations and share 101 of the most beautiful, inspirational and funny Christmas quotes for cards.
Use them for your Christmas cards but also your letterboard, Instagram, group chats, emails and texts to express exactly what you want to say and to make this holiday season more joyful for yourself and the people close to you.
Christmas Quotes for Cards and a Joyful Holiday
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.”
– Agnes M. Pahro
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“Christmas works like glue; it keeps us all sticking together.”
– Rosie Thomas
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
– Kevin Alan Milne
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
– Alexander Smith
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
– Marjorie Holmes
“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 season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill
“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 isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
– Valentine Davies
“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 is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
– Pope Francis
“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”
– Norman Wesley Brooks
“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.”
– W.J. Cameron
“Christmas is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family.”
– Roberta Flack
“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
– Washington Irving
“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
Short Christmas Quotes for Your Letterboard and Cards
“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice
“It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.”
– Mother Teresa
“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
– Roy L. Smith
“Love the giver more than the gift.”
– Brigham Young
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb
“Christmas is a tonic for our souls.”
– B.C. Forbes
“Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.”
– Carol Nelson
“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.”
– Deborah Whipp
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
– Edna Ferber
“May your days be merry and bright.”
– White Christmas
“Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.”
– Charles Dickens
“‘Tis the season to be jolly!”
– “Deck the Halls”
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.”
– White Christmas
“Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”
– J. C. Penney
“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.”
– Ann Garnett Schultz
“Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy.”
– Tupac Shakur
“Baby it’s cold outside.”
– Dean Martin
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“All Christmas trees are perfect.”
– Charles N. Barnard
Funny Christmas Quotes for Cards, Letterboards and Instagram
“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
– Robert Paul
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day.”
– Andy Rooney
“A Christmas miracle is when your family doesn’t get into a single argument all day.”
– Melanie White
“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”
– Bob Phillips
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
– Phyllis Diller
“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
“Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.”
– Larry Wilde
“Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”
– Kin Hubbard
“That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy.’”
– Robert Paul
“I don’t know what to say, but it’s Christmas, and we’re all in misery.”
– Ellen Griswold (from the movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation)
“Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.”
– Andy Borowitz
“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”
– Johnny Carson
“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Thank you, stockings, for being a long flammable piece of fabric people like to hang over a roaring fireplace.”
– Jimmy Fallon
“The main reason Santa is so jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
– George Carlin
“I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.”
– Winston Spear
“There’s something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.”
– Kristen Wiig
“My husband’s idea of getting the Christmas spirit is to become Scrooge.”
– Melanie White
“Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.”
– Bart Simpson
Inspirational and Positive Christmas Quotes for Cards
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
– Burton Hills
“If you want to experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer nothing in return.”
– Toni Sorenson
“The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.”
– Gladys Taber
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
– W.C. Jones
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox: that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us.”
– Donald E. Westlake
“Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking.”
– Patricia Clafford
“The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness.”
– Thomas S. Monson
“Christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime.”
– Zooey Deschanel
“Christmas is a bridge of hope that connects yesterday’s memories with tomorrow’s dreams.”
– Mary Engelbreit
“Christmas is a season of great joy: a time for remembering the past and hoping for the future.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
– Pindar
“The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
– Helen Keller
“Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter, and goodwill.”
– Martha Stewart
“Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer – home.”
– W. J. Tucker
“Christmas is a time for cherishing those who bring so many blessings to our lives.”
– Mary Hollingsworth
“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
– Dale Evans Rogers
Cute and Beautiful Christmas Quotes for Cards or a Letterboard
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room.”
– Nora Roberts
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
– Richard Paul Evans
“My brother, little sister and I decorate the tree together, and every year we fight over who gets to hang our handmade childhood decorations.”
– Carly Rae Jepsen
“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.”
– Mo Rocca
“Christmas is the happiness that lights up children’s eyes.”
– Ainsley Harriott
“Christmas is a feast of love and friendship.”
– Michael Gough
“Do you want to build a snowman?”
– Anna (from the movie Frozen)
“Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.”
– Booth Tarkington
“Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.”
– Aishabella Sheikh
“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“The winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.”
– Zuzu Bailey (from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life)
“Rockin’ around the Christmas tree.”
– Brenda Lee
“Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.”
– Dean Martin
“With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.”
– Johnny Mathis
“I grew up with a Christmas tree, I’m going to stay with a Christmas tree.”
– Thomas Menino
“T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
– Clement Clarke Moore
Want more inspiration for your holiday? Then have a look at these inspirational Christmas quotes, the funny Christmas quotes here and also this one with short Christmas quotes.