A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Inspirational holiday quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Holiday Quotes
The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you. – Ellis Peters
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie
Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism. – Caroline Kennedy
The Joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other’s 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
Faith makes everything possible in life, Love that kindles the heart, hope this season will bring a smile. Stay blessed and have a Merry Christmas!
I just feel specifically about that holiday why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous. – Michelle Trachtenberg
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. – Roy L. Smith
Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism. – Caroline Kennedy
Love the giver more than the gift. – Brigham Young
Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast. – William Shakespeare
The holiest of holidays are those kept by us in silence and apart, The secret anniversaries of the heart. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. – The Grinch
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson
For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season. – Darren Criss
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
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
Come, woo me, woo me; for now, I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. – William Shakespeare
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. – Robert Breault
Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. – William Shakespeare
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other’s burdens, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays. – W. C. Jones
It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. – Shannon L. Alder
A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up. – Abraham Polonsky
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
Take vacations. Go as many places as you can. You can always make money. You can’t always make memories. – Anonymous
Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. – John Boswell
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. – Larry Wilde
The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. – Lemony Snicket
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. – Agnes M. Pharo
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. – Janice Maeditere
A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.Jacob Braude
Holidays – any holiday – are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together. – Lidia Bastianich
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness. – Helen Keller
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. – Phillip Adams
The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us. – Anonymous
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
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. – Mary Ellen Chase
Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.Sam Ewing
The holiest of holidays are those kept by us in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
May the Spirit of the Holidays be with you throughout the New Year. – Unknown
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. – Bertrand Russell
Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace. – Todd Stocker
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 and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw
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
Holidays bring out the best in family dysfunction.Anonymous
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus. – Bob Phillips
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
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. – Mary Anne Radmacher
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases. – Bridger Winegar
Enjoy your time off from telling everyone on earth how much you need time off. – Anonymous
I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. – Henry David Thoreau
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
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. – Maya Angelou
A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. – Jan Phillips
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log. – Ellen DeGeneres
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.Earl Wilson
A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode. – Prabhas
The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins. – David Letterman
Holidays – any holiday – are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together. – Lidia Bastianich
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. – Elbert Hubbard
I look forward to the holiday season every year. – Cate Blanchett
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.Pamela Ribon
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. – William Arthur Ward
Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home. – Carol Nelson
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year. – Victor Borge
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time. – David Brenne
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. – Robert Orben
A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. – Morris Fishbein
