Inspirational Christmas Quotes

Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours. ~ Jennifer Chen

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. ~ Jimmy Cannon

The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home. ~ Edward Rowland Sill

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for ... all the soul-help that sad souls understand. ~ Will Carleton

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ~ Dennis Prager

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ~ Immanuel Kant

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. ~ Denis Diderot

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. ~ Betty Buckley

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. ~ Ruth Benedict

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. ~ Joel Osteen

Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it. ~ Sasha Azevedo

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude ... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ~ Charles De Secondat

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. ~ Robert South

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. ~ Bill Vaughan

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile. ~ Grenville Kleiser

When your focus is on how you feel about things in the world then the things of the world slip from view, your little boat of learning things for what they are are swamped by the swells of how you feel about them. With hard work and with learning, the things of the world are still somehow out there, waiting for you to know about them, no matter how you feel. They survive how you feel about them and they are there before and after the storms of your feelings roar through and abate. Feelings aren't much of a compass to go by. ~ Stephen Jenkinson

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. ~ Sherman Alexie

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war. ~ Edward Heath

The privilege to work is a gift.
The power to work is a blessing.
The love of work is success. ~ David O. McKay

Life is like a pavement. Some slabs are perfect, others broken or cracked but at the end iit's always a complete and perfect slab. ~ Drake

You can cry again or You can try again. Choice is yours. ~ Soham Mondal

IT wanted little more than a fortnight to Christmas; but the weather showed no signs yet of the frost and snow, conventionally associated with the coming season. The atmosphere was unnaturally warm, and the old year was dying feebly in sapping rain and enervating mist. ~ Wilkie Collins

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy. ~ Leonard Nimoy

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being. ~ Claire Fontaine

Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future! ~ John Di Lemme

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves ... sometimes even physically. ~ Raquel Cepeda

There is no better revenge than a great success. ~ Debasish Mridha

Gravity is a whore, it will take you down. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Make TODAY so beautiful that your YESTERDAY is something you will smile about TOMORROW.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. ~ Daniel J. Evans

Once you make the requisite personal commitment to make your success deliberate, that commitment must translate into a definition of higher personal standards meant to depict the true impression of what you have become or are becoming within. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Love is the music of the heart, which you can feel but can't hear. ~ Debasish Mridha

What other people think of me is not my business. ~ Michael J. Fox

My mug had a reindeer in a bathrobe and slippers with Christmas lights laced in its antlers, toasting the merry season with champagne and saying, Bingle Jells. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

This may sound like a bunch of psychobabble, but the truth is that we are all filled with contradictions; personality is fluid not black and white. And, well…we are all both strong
and weak. That's what it means to be human. We all have flaws, weaknesses. The real strength is when we can admit these to ourselves and become able to show them to others. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The only way to become immune to bullshit is to stop believing in it. ~ Gabbo De La Parra

Evangelism is more about being than being perfect. ~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

You gave me a soul touch. A touch beyond physical. The most powerful of touch. I thought it was about you but I was wrong it was about me. In me. It took me a lifetime to realize it was me, not you. Thank you for showing me my soul. ~ Renae A. Sauter

At the end you will not remember the glory but the love. ~ Debasish Mridha

Dreams are what keep you going, when real life lets you down. ~ Sharon Owens

My path was predetermined by the Creator. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live. ~ Markus Zusak

Life is for happiness not for success. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is never too early and never too late to try your best. What you like or what you love will be a great success. ~ Debasish Mridha

People destroy what they can't understand ~ Jes Fuhrmann

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment. ~ Frederick Lenz

He disowned me," I murmured. "Kicked me out and told me to come back when I changed my choice."
"He seriously used those words? That it was a choice?"
I nodded.
"You can't change it. Your sexuality is like your DNA. You can't cut off your finger so it's no longer there, because it is you. You're born with it - you just discover it when you mature. ~ Shaye Evans

It may be too late, if you wait until Christmas to show those who you love, you have loved them. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I felt someone behind me. I stopped and looked back ... There was Mom, crawling behind me, without saying anything ... Her tears falling to the floor ... All my suppressed emotions suddenly burst out and I started crying. ~ Aya Kito

Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You're a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You're twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you'd have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth ~ Isaac Babel

If you keep looking, you will find it. It has nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with courage. Be brave. ~ Jamie Christian Desplaces

But during the many happy hours that Cadpig was to sit watching it in the warm kitchen she never liked it quite so much as that other television, that still silent television she had seen on Christmas Eve when the puppies had rested so peacefully in that strange lofty building. She often remembered that building and wondered who owned it. Someone very kind she was sure for in front of every one of the many seats there had been a little carpet-eared puppy-sized dog-bed. ~ Dodie Smith

Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment. ~ Debasish Mridha

We might miss the days of being unreachable. ~ Melanie Gideon

I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew. ~ Molly Moore