101 Christmas Quotes for Work: Motivational, Positive and Happy Sayings

The last month of the year up until Christmas tends to be a busy one with things that need to get done before the next year begins.

It’s also a time for fun office parties, for gift exchanges and a good time to show the people you work with some appreciation.

So in today’s post I want to help you with all of that and share 101 of the most positive, cheerful and motivational Christmas quotes for work.

I hope you’ll find something energizing, hopeful and stress relieving here to get you into the right holiday mood and to share with your coworkers.

Motivational and Positive Christmas Quotes for the Workplace

“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
– Vivian Swift

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.”
– Agnes M. Pahro

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.”
– Carrie Fisher

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese Proverb

“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

“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

“Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
– Brian Tracy

“If you want to experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer nothing in return.”
– Toni Sorenson

“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 more time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
– Fennel Hudson

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
– Dale Evans Rogers

“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux

“Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
– Pope John XXIII

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
– Ruth Carter Stapleton

“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

Funny Christmas Quotes for Work and Laughs

“The office Christmas party is a great opportunity to catch up with people you haven’t seen for 20 minutes.”
– Unknown

“Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.”
– Andy Borowitz

“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
– Phyllis Diller

“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.”
– Robert Lynd

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”
– Johnny Carson

“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

“There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?”
– Conan O’Brien

“Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.”
– Unknown

“I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.”
– Henny Youngman

“The office party ends at nine, which conflicts with my goal of being in bed by 8.45.”
– Sandra Shea

“The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”
– Johnny Carson

“Christmas shopping is a lot like military service – you do things you would never ordinarily do in places you would never normally go.”
– Bill Vaughan

“That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.”
– Unknown

“Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.”
– Andy Borowitz

“Nothing says holidays like a cheese log.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“Christmas is a magical time of year… I just watched all my money magically disappear.”
– Unknown

“Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases.”
– Bridger Winegar

“I bought my brother some gift wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.”
– Steven Wright

“Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.”
– Unknown

“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, ‘Toys not included.'”
– Bernard Manning

“Mentally I am ready for Christmas, financially I am not ready for Christmas.”
– Unknown

“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.”
– Richard Lamm

Short Christmas Quotes for Work, Coworkers and Cards

“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
– Edna Ferber

“Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.”
– Rosie Thomas

“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”
– John Roy

“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
– Kevin Alan Milne

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
– W.T. Ellis

“Love the giver more than the gift.”
– Brigham Young

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
– Alexander Smith

“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
– Valentine Davies

“The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.”
– Phillips Brooks

“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
– Roy L. Smith

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”
– Norman Wesley Brooks

“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.”
– Mother Teresa

“Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.”
– Charles Dickens

“Merry Christmas, nearly everybody!”
– Ogden Nash

Merry Christmas Quotes to Spread the Holiday Cheer at Work

“The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round – kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.”
– Harlan Miller

“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”
– Buddy (from the movie Elf)

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
– Garrison Keillor

“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

“May this season find you among those you love, sharing in the twin glories of generosity and gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
– Harlan Miller

“At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
– Thomas Tusser

“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 for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season to fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.”
– Julie Hebert

“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 Taber

“We clap hands and welcome the peace of Christmas. We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.”
– Maya Angelou

“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.”
– W.J. Cameron

“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
– Janice Maeditere

“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
– Pope Francis

“The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.”
– Max Lucado

Christmas Quotes for Work, Instagram and Your Letter Board

“Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve.”
– Carrie Latet

“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
– Richard Paul Evans

“Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries Not Included.”
– Unknown

“At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.”
– Robert Godden

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde

“Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy.'”
– Robert Paul

“One good thing about Christmas shopping is it toughens you for the January sales.”
– Grace Kriley

“Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.”
– Carol Nelson

“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”
– Bob Phillips

“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

“Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.”
– Larry Wilde

“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”
– Fanny Wright

“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.”
– Unknown

“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
– Robert Paul

“If you can’t wrap Christmas presents well, at least make it look like they put up a good fight.”
– Unknown

“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

Want more uplifting thoughts and motivation for the season? Then check out these inspirational Christmas quotes, the short quotes for work and jolt of energy here and also this one with lots of funny Christmas quotes and sayings.