150+ December Quotes – Motivational Quotes About December
Discover the essence of December through these handpicked motivational quotes that encapsulate the month’s spirit. This compilation of the best December quotations combines inspiration and reflection, evoking the season’s enchantment.
As December unfolds, it’s a month of transition, celebration, and contemplation. People seek solace and motivation in these quotes to navigate the festive season and the end of the year with renewed vigor. These carefully prepared phrases act as positive lighthouses, directing us to appreciate the beauty of everyday moments, express thanks for our path, and look forward to fresh beginnings.
Join us in exploring these December quotes, illuminating the way to a joyful and fulfilling month.
Best December Quotes
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. – Mark Twain
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus
In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. – Alexander Pope
Between possible and impossible … two letters and a state of mind. – Charles de Gaulle
From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens — the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind’s eye. — Katherine S. White
Chill December brings the sleet / Blazing fire/ and Christmas to treat. — Sara Coleridge
The gardening season officially begins on January 1st and ends on December 31. – Marie Huston
When dark December glooms the day And takes our autumn joys away; When short and scant the sun-beam throws, Upon the weary waste of snows… – Walter Scott
December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory… – John Geddes
My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year, we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it. – Thomas S. Monson
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness, how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon? – Dr. Seuss
It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready. ― Sarah Kay
I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. ― Oliver Herford
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
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore. – Robin Hobb
When we shall hear the rain and wind beat dark December, how, in this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away? – William Shakespeare
All men think that happiness lies at the top of the mountain while it lays in how you climb it. – Confucius
December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come. — Fennel Hudson
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. ― Yoko Ono
A tule fog fills the sky– Yuletide. – Michael P. Garofalo
Will love be true as of December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June? – Clement Scott
In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I blink January’s lashes and gush down December’s cheeks. – Sanober Khan
Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold! – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
When I’m training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It’s a bit tiring. – Andy Murray
The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast. – Dylan Thomas
There is October every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life! ― Mehmet Murat ildan
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. – Helen Keller
Things do not change; change your way to view them, that’s enough. – Lao Tzu
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — J.M. Barrie
Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home. — Carol Nelson
May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love. – Ada V. Hendricks
He had been walking for a long time, ever since dark in fact, and dark falls soon in December. – Charlotte Riddell
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. – Edgar Allan Poe
Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel thread and garlands of metallic filaments that disappear underneath the other ornaments and finery. Shadows follow, joyful, laughing sprites. The tree is rich with potential wonder. All it needs is a glance from you to come alive. – Vera Nazarian
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us, God. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
When December comes, can ‘The Nutcracker’ be far behind? No, it can’t – not in America, anyway. – Robert Gottlieb
There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails. ― Jerome K. Jerome
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie
When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Dare being yourself, no one is better suited to do so. – Shirley Briggs
Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus. — Rod McKuen
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! – Charles Dickens
A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days. – Kiran Bantawa
Outside the house it was storming, a busy downfall of flakes that the wind blew lightly across acres of old snow left from December. – Gladys Hasty Carroll
To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility. – Franz Kafka
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again. – Barack Obama
December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared, Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even Winter’s crystal gems be spared. – Christopher Pearce Cranch
Someone asked me when is my birthday? The poet inside me replied, My birthday is on the last day of the year, It’s 31st December my dear! ― Anamika Mishra
What freezings I have felt, what dark days have seen, What old December’s bareness everywhere! – William Shakespeare
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away from the cold. — Ben Aaronovitch
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. – John Ruskin
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. – P.J. O’Rourke
Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam; then let us sit and watch the while The blue ice curdling on the stream. – Emily Jane Brontë
It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats. – Dylan Thomas
For more than a decade, I led an organization that puts on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted. – John C. Maxwell
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams. – Pippa Middleton
May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon. ― Lisa Kleypas
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. – John Greenleaf Whittier
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. – Dalai Lama
A smile is the prayer of each small cell. – Gitta Mallasz
It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection. ― Elizabeth Camden
Bitter cold autumn wind – shivering lips. – Michael P. Garofalo
If winter comes can spring be… We’re nearer to spring than we were in September, I heard a bird sing in the dark of December, January, febmar, aprimay, apricots, beneath the bough. – Sylvia Plath
No matter what my fortune may be, or where I may roam, in December, I’ll be going home. – Floyd Huddleston
I’ve come to sing you a song called December. – Ryan Murphy
The cold is coming. December’s winter solstice. Start of the season. – Robert Pettit
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. – William Shakespeare
There was warmth in his large piercing brown eyes. The kind of warmth that tucks a child into bed. The same kind of warmth that dries your wet hair on a rainy December afternoon. ― Malak El Halabi
Should auld acquaintance be forgotten and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgotten And days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we’ll take a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne. – Robert Burns
Grace is open. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views and allow divine grace to express itself through you. – Mata Amritanandamayi
We become what we repeat every day. – Aristotle
This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, a joy to fill your holidays! ― D.M. Dellinger
I have often thought, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter. – Joseph Addison
If we make it through December, everything’s gonna be alright I know; it’s the coldest time of winter and I shiver when I see the falling snow. – Merle Haggard
Eagerly I wished the morrow, – vainly I had sought to borrow. From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore. – Rao Umar Javed
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play. – Maya Angelou
There’s something super special about December. ― Charmaine J. Forde
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne’er remember Apollo’s summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. – John Keats
I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinciana’s red, blood-red in warm December. – Claude McKay
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. – Robert A. Heinlein
Happiness is not easy. It is very difficult to find within us and impossible to find elsewhere. – Buddha
Come, woo me, woo me, for now, I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. ― William Shakespeare
This looks like a December day, it looks like we’ve come to the end of the way. – Willie Nelson
I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer. – Malak El Halabi
I detest ‘Jingle Bells,’ ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. – Richard Dawkins
I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn. – Robert Buchanan
It is never over, though we are in December! ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
FOCUS – Follow One Course Until Success. – John Watson
Unfortunately, I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. – Leon Askin
Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. – Laozi
Its 75 degrees! In December!- Sarah Dessen
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. – James Stockdale
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered. – Charley Reese
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Wallace D. Wattles
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ― Charles Lamb
I prefer winter and fall when you feel the bone structure of the landscape–the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show. – Andrew Wyeth
I miss being in Barbados in December. That is the time I always remember. The smell of varnish on the wooden floors. And the smell of paint on the wooden doors. The crowds in de Supermarket buying up the rum, and the music blasting. Puh rup a pum pum. – Charmaine J Forde
I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. – Yoko Ono
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. – William Shakespeare
It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I’d die, I turned aside to vomit, I envied them. ― Samuel Beckett
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight — always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – J. M. Barrie
Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does. – Ogwo David Emenike
I can’t really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December ’75 and went until December ’76. – Ted Shackelford
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all. – Madonna Ciccone
During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI. – Sibel Edmonds
If you follow a recipe for life, spontaneity will be cooked. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I prefer failing at something I appreciate rather than have success at something I hate. – George F. Burns
In this world only winter is certain. ― George R.R. Martin
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. – Christina Rossetti
Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas. – Toni Sorenson
I represented Wall Street, as a senator from New York, and I went to Wall Street in December of 2007 – before the big crash that we had – I basically said, ‘Cut it out! Quit foreclosing on homes! Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors. – Hillary Clinton
We Indians have to keep aside our December for friends who’ve settled abroad. Everyone is visiting. Everyone wants to party. ― Nitya Prakash
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. – Sarah Vowell
We are the mountains we must cross. – Marty Rubin
Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May? – James Walker
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. – William Bartram
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
Be realistic: ask for the impossible. – Che Guevara
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays. ― W. C. Jones
December 25th has become guilt and obligation. – Phil Donahue
Without Hope, we live in desire. – Dante
From November through December, ‘it is the season for ‘Home Alone! – Catherine O’Hara
December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood. ― Zinaida Gippius
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. – Louis Pasteur
Give yourself permission to risk. It is only at risk that one finds success. – Todd Stocker
summer in the winter Miami in December. – Mike Posner
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo
A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December. – Earl Weaver
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. – Sri Aurobindo
Love life intensely and you’ll have no more time for hatred, regret, or fear. – Karen Salmansohn
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
It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland – where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little. – Hugh Laurie
Michigan isn’t just cold in December; it’s arctic. – Daniel Milstein
December is the holdout month, all the others torn away. ― Anne Gisleson
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey’s prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. – John Henrik Clarke
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. – Louis Pasteur
Broke people are busy with their time, wherein successful people are productive with their time. -Vishwas Chavan
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Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. – David Brooks
I’d go back to December, turn around and change my own mind. – Taylor Swift
Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it into your awareness and it starts to become true to you. – Anita Moorjani
Through the small tall bathroom window, the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. – Dave Eggers
Only from the heart can you touch the sky. – Rumi
Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakens. – Carl Gustav Jung
People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. – Ogden Nash
Your skins are so cold and dry. Like you are also afraid so this coming December. – Moaz Zulfiqar
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie at my house. – Tom Hanks
In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur
Nobody is a loser. Either he is a Winner or a Learner. – Abhishek Shukla
If it’s December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? – HOWARD KOCH
Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant. – Rhonda Byrne
If you are seeking the right path, you are already on the right path. – Yehuda Berg
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