December is here with the darkest days of the year but also twinkling holiday lights, cozy decorations and friends and families coming together.
It’s a time for preparations. And time for reflection on the year we’ve had.
And to help you throughout this varied month I’d like to share 101 of the most inspirational, positive and funny short December quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to help you make this a wonderful end to your year.
Short and Inspirational December Quotes for a Happy Start to Your Winter
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
– Vivian Swift
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
– Fennel Hudson
“The magic of December lies in its ability to bring people together.”
– Richard Paul Evans
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“December dances with snowflakes.”
– Beatrix Potter
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux
“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb
“December paints the world white.”
– Unknown
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan
“December is the month of miracles.”
– Unknown
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
– Hal Borland
Short and Positive Welcome December Quotes for Your Letterboard
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets
“A December day is brief but beautiful.”
– John Greenleaf Whittier
“December lights up the dark with Christmas magic and holiday love.”
– Rip Miller
“December’s gifts are many.”
– Elise Green
“December: a month of lights, snow, and feasts.”
– Unknown
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleef
“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“December nights sparkle and shine.”
– Langston Hughes
“December wraps us in wonder.”
– Unknown
“December wears winter’s crown.”
– Unknown
“The first fall of snow is not only an event but a magical moment.”
– Francis Bacon
“Winter is a poem written in snow.”
– Katherine May
“Winter strengthens what summer cannot conquer.”
– Saul Bellow
“Winter whispers poetry to the soul.”
– Terri Guillemets
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
– Mary Ellen Chase
Funny and Short December Quotes for Your Instagram
“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”
– Sarah Kay
“Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge
“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry
“There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.”
– Dan Florence
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde
“I’m only a morning person on December 25th.”
– Rainbow Rowell
“My favorite outdoor activity is going back inside.”
– Sarah Kelly
“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”
– Mark Twain
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Get inside!’”
– Bill Watterson
“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Winter is like a house guest who stays too long.”
– Mae West
“There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.”
– Bill Veeck
“Winter is a state of mind. As in, don’t mind if I have another cup of hot cocoa.”
– Unknown
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson
“Winter adds a whole new dimension to life. Unfortunately, it’s a freezing one.”
– Sandra Shea
Short and Motivational December Quotes for Work
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.”
– Noam Chomsky
“The winter is a slow time, but it is also a time of getting ready.”
– Theodore Roethke
“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
– Andrew Wyeth
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
“Winter is the time for stories, staying warm and learning about ourselves. It’s the time of understanding.”
– Rip Miller
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
– Rose Bergman
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch
“Winter tests what summer blessed.”
– Elise Green
“December is a month of enormous potential. It’s a time when we can all give and receive, a time when the spirit of humanity shines brightest.”
– Michael Josephson
“Winter is coming, we know what’s coming with it. We can learn to live with the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
Short Hello December Quotes and Sayings for an Lovely Winter
“Good morning, happy first day of December. Keep looking up. That’s the secret of life.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.”
– John Geddes
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
– James M. Barrie
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
– E.E. Cummings
“Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.”
– Sara Coleridge
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
– Ben Aaronovitch
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“Winter came in days that were gray and still.”
– Mildred D. Taylor
“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 time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell
“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.”
– Mary Oliver
“Winter is earth’s slumber time.”
– Unknown
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein
“Winter is the king of showmen.”
– Ogden Nash
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Winter delights the heart.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
? Markus Zusak
“Winter dreams of springtime’s promise.”
– Mary Oliver
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder – no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
– Candace Bushnell
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.”
– Roman Payne
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
– Lisa Kleypas
“Winter carries a blessing in disguise. Notice it.”
– Unknown
“Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.”
– Charles Dickens
“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!”
– Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember.”
– Oliver Herford
Want more inspiration for the end of your year? Then have a look at these inspirational December quotes, the short Christmas quotes here and also this one with uplifting and motivational New Year quotes.