65 Happy Holiday Quotes, Sayings, Wishes & Messages

The holiday is the need of every person because if there’s no holiday there’s no happiness. That’s why a famous spiritual monk The Dalai Lama said: “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” In this post, I’ve collected the best holiday and vacation quotes, sayings, wishes, greetings and messages.

Best Holiday Quotes

1. “The Joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ 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

2. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”—Robert Orben

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

4. “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”—Leo Tolstoy

5. “Take a vacation so long, you forget all of your passwords.”— Unknown

6. “The journey, not the arrival, matters.”—T.S. Eliot

7. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.”—The Dalai Lama

8. “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after the holidays.”—Unknown

Best Vacation Quotes and Sayings

9. “Take vacations, go as many places as you can, you can always make money, you can’t awake to make memories.”

10. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” – Earl Wilson

11. “The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.” –Jack Adam Weber

12. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben

13. “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”—Elbert Hubbard

14. “The average vacation is one-tenth playing—nine-tenths paying.”  -Arnold Glasow

15. “I hope your vacation gives you the pleasure you need so that you don’t have to think of any problems back at home. Enjoy your vacation.”

16. “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?”—Zig Ziglar


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Holiday Quotes Of The Day

17. “Take a break and chill because this is the time of the year to rejoice, celebrate and also feel rewarded.”

18. “May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

19. Good news from heaven the angels bring. Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given. To crown us with the joy of heaven. – Martin Luther.

20. The long-awaited holidays are finally here. Fun and joy are waiting there. May you have a blissful holiday season!

21. “Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.”—Jack Layton

22. Happy holiday! May you spend this day with peace, love and joy that your heart could ever desire to have.

23. “Make your vocation your vacation.  That is the secret to success.” – Mark Twain

Holiday and Vacation Quotes For Family

24. “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

25. “The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us.” – Holiday Quotes

26. “Holidays – any holiday – are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.” – Lidia Bastianich

27. “I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.” – Amy Adams

28. “I can’t wait to celebrate the holidays with all of my family.”

29. Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments. Embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. – John Boswell

Inspirational Holiday Messages Quotes

30. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. The holiday is something like that, wishing you a happy holiday.” – Helen Keller

31.  “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

32. Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.” – Caroline Kennedy

33. One of the real happiness of this season is the opportunity to thank the people you love and wish the best on everyone on this season.

34. May the holiday be your best family holiday ever! May you have so much fun and never get tired ever. Here’s wishing you a fun filled holiday celebration.

35. Lots of amazing gifts are being shared during holiday. But the gift of knowing and loving you is truly a pleasure, which I considered the best holiday gift for me.

Holiday Encouragement Quotes and Sayings

36. “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”—Leo Tolstoy

37. “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

38.  “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.”—The Dalai Lama

39. “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

40. “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” – Marianne Williamson

41. “May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

42. “The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.”-Peter Abelard

Holiday Positive Quotes

43. “There’s something about a holiday that isn’t all about how much money you spend.” – Hilarie Burton

44. “Happiness is there for the taking, and the making.” — Oprah Winfrey

45. “Everything is just better during the holidays.” – Unknown

46. “Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.” – William Shakespeare

47. As this holiday season begins to pile up with a new day of joy, may you find the fulfillment of your new endeavor! Best wishes to you in everything that you plan to do.

48. On this moment of the year, we are so proud and happy about your achievements. May the envelope of peace, abundance and happiness fill you this Christmas season and in the coming days.

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Holiday Quotes That Lights Your Vacation

49. “The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

50. “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

51. “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 Christmas-time.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

52. “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

53. The wonderful gift of the joy of family and friendship surpasses each and every exciting wishes of this holiday season. May you celebrate this special day in the company of the people you dearly love!

Holiday Life Quotes

54. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald

55. “Take a vacation so long, you forget all of your passwords.”— Unknown

56. Holiday is a perfect way to escape from the hectic schedule of life and beyond. Here’s wishing you a very happy holiday, go on and enjoy life!

57. The only sad thing about a holiday is that, After every holiday, there is a non-holiday!
But till you are on a holiday, Enjoy it to the fullest.

Funny Holiday Quotes

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

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

60. “Don’t bother me I’m on vacation.”

61. “Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not.”

62. “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle

63. “Vacation calories don’t count.”

64. “My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.” – Gary Allan


65. This is all I have to share with you, Now chose your best holiday quotes, sayings, wishes and messages and share with your friends. And also write your best holiday quote in the comment section.