December can be a busy and tough one.
You got deadlines to meet before the end of the year, reports that need to be done and at the same time you may be a bit tired and mostly longing for some time off.
If that’s the case then today’s post can help you out. In it I want to share 100 of the most motivational, inspirational and funny December quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to give you a kick of energy on an unmotivated day, a good laugh to release bit of stress and to make this a focused and successful end to your year.
Motivational December Quotes for Work
“December is a good time to reflect on the year past and dream of possibilities for the year ahead. A door closes and a new one opens.”
– Rip Miller
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.”
– Noam Chomsky
“You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it’ll carry over into January.”
– Philip Rivers
“As we look to the new year, hold on to what is good. Let go of what is bad. It really is that simple.”
– Mandy Hale
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”
– Vern McLellan
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
– Fennel Hudson
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
– Hal Borland
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb
“Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
– Vivian Swift
“Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.”
– George R.R. Martin
“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“December is a month of enormous potential. It’s a time when we can all give and receive, a time when the spirit of humanity shines brightest.”
– Michael Josephson
“December doesn’t change your neurochemistry. If your brain isn’t made for an overload of alcohol, parties, passive aggressive relatives, general socialising with people you like but still get exhausted by, relentless routine rearrangement, it should be okay to say no to things. There is nothing festive about burnouts and breakdowns.”
– Matt Haig
“Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.”
– Stanley Crawford
“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Short December Quotes for Work
“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”
– Sarah Kay
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“December: a month of lights, snow, and the year’s last sprints at work.”
– Meredith Kelly
“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan
“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
– J.M. Barrie
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
“I get excited for big games in December.”
– Jon Gruden
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleeff
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
– Victor Hugo
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha
“Winter is the king of showmen.”
– Ogden Nash
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin
Funny December Quotes for Work
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’”
– Robert Byrne
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold
“My favorite December activity is going to work and freezing pretty much all the way there. Truly lovely.”
– Sarah Kelly
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
– Kenneth Grahame
“The only thing more overwhelming than December’s darkness is my overstuffed to-do list due to me procrastinating all year long”
– Jim Harper
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb
“I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Year’s resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?”
– Catherine O’Hara
“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
– Douglas Adams
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”
– Sinclair Lewis
“Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.”
– Geraldo Rivera
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner
“It was so cold I almost got married.”
– Shelley Winters
“Winter is the season when we try to keep the house as hot as it was when we complained about the heat last summer.”
– Kin Hubbard
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson
“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.”
– Billy Connolly
“My keyboard must be broken. I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
– Unknown
“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it.”
– Richard Brautigan
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
– Douglas Adams
“I’m not going outside until the temperature is above my age.”
– Unknown
“Close the year the way you want to open the next one: focused, done with meetings for life and with a at least a semi-cleaned out inbox.”
– Sandra Shea
Inspirational and Positive December Quotes for Tired Days at Work
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?”
– John Steinbeck
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
– Andrew Wyeth
“Snow falling in the middle of a December night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
– Novala Takemoto
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.”
– Charles Dickens
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
– Lisa Kleypas
“Thank goodness for the first snow. It was a reminder – no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
– Candace Bushnell
“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
“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that it escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.”
– Flora Thompson
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.”
– John Geddes
“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets
Christmas Quotes for Work and Coworkers
“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.”
– Unknown
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“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
“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
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill
“My Christmas wish list for work: fewer meetings, more of those crumbly seasonal cookies and – finally – a printer that works.”
– Sandra Shea
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie
“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
“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
“A little Christmas kindness at work can warm up even the coldest and most stressful day in the second week of December.”
– Joy Stevens
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde
“Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”
– Kin Hubbard
“This Christmas, give your coworkers the simple but powerful gift of a heartfelt, honest thank you they didn’t expect.”
– Joy Stevens
“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together whilst time stands still.”
– Rachel Cohn
“I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”
– Amy Adams
“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
“Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.”
– Rod McKuen
“December is a time for family, for love, and for forgiveness.”
– Caroline Myss
“I’m may be physically at my desk, but mentally I’m wrapping presents and making shopping lists for our Christmas feast.”
– Sandra Shea
Want more inspiration and motivation for the end of the year? Then check out these inspirational December quotes, the motivational New Year quotes here and also this one with uplifting Christmas quotes.