50 Thanksgiving Quotes for Showing Gratitude

Thanksgiving Quotes for Being Grateful

1. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” -Nigel Hamilton
2. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” -Willard Scott
3. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.” -Joyce Giraud
4. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” -John F. Kennedy
5. “Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
6. “What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.” -Daniel Humm
7. “Forever on Thanksgiving, the heart will find the pathway home.” -Wilbur D. Nesbit
8. “The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.” -H. U. Westermayer
9. “Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough
10. “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.” -Neal A. Maxwell 
11. “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” -Robert Caspar Lintner
12. “The simple act of practicing gratitude consistently is your invitation to a new life. Accepting the invitation is now up to you.” -Josie Robinson
13. “You shouldn’t just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving; you should be giving all the time.” -Alcurtis Turner
14. “I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family.” -Marcus Samuelsson
15. “Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.” -Germany Kent
16. “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” -Henry Van Dyke
17. “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” -Gertrude Stein
18. “Family gathers to share good noise and good food. Gratitude abounds.” -Richelle E. Goodrich
19. “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” -Marcus Samuelsson
20. “It is one thing to be grateful. It’s another to give thanks. Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.” -Tim Keller 
21. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” -William Arthur Ward
22. “Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man, it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.” -Edward Sandford Martin
23. “Thanksgiving creates abundance.” -Ann Voskamp
24. “Thanksgiving day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.” -E.P. Powell
25. “Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.” -J. Robert Moskin
26. “Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
27. “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.” -Lawrence Welk
28. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “He who thanks but with the lips, thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving, comes from the heart.” -J.A. Shedd
30. “Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of thanks.” -Monique Hammond
31. “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.” -Tony Snow
32. “The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.” -James E. Faust
33. “No matter what the situation is…close your eyes and think of all the things in your life you could be grateful for right now.” -Deepak Chopra
34. “Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.” -Phillips Brooks
35. “No matter what our circumstances, we can find a reason to be thankful.” -David Jeremiah
36. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” -Oprah Winfrey
37. “Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.” -Catherine Pulsifer
38. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” -William Arthur Ward
39. “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” -Yogi Bhajan
40. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” -Lionel Hampton
41. “Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.” -Alexandra Katehakis
42. “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” -Amy Leigh Mercree
43. “Thanksgiving isn’t just a day. It’s a way we can live our lives every day.” -Katrina Mayer
44. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.” -W.T. Purkiser
45. “Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.” -Ray Stannard Baker
46. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” -Randy Pausch
47. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
48. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual… O how I laugh when I think of my vague, indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.” -Henry David Thoreau
49. “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don’t think so.” -Nora Ephron
50. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” -H.A. Ironside