Thanksgiving is a time to express gratitude to friends and family. We have Thanksgiving quotes for every mood, from counting your blessings to getting a laugh. Express the gratitude in your heart with warm Thanksgiving quotes. Find inspirational, funny, and short quotes to share with family and friends on November 23.
Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes
“A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.”
― John O’Donohue
“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”
― Isabel Allende
“Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else’s. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.”
― Roy T. Bennett, “The Light in the Heart”
“In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”
― Amy Collette
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus
“Reflect upon your present blessings ― of which every man has many ― not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― Charles Dickens
“Have gratitude for all that you have, and you can be happy exactly as you are.”
― Mandy Ingber
“You never know where a blessing can come from.”
― Teena Marie
“To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.”
― John Bytheway
Thanksgiving Messages
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
― Tony Robbins
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
― Willie Nelson
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
― Thomas Aquinas
“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.”
― Sanchita Pandey
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” ― Maya Angelou, “Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer”
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity … it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ― Melody Beattie
“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
― William Shakespeare, “Richard II”
Short Thanksgiving quotes
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
― Voltaire
“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
― Meister Eckhart
“Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises. ”
― Janette Oke
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
― Walter Winchell
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
― Henri Frederic Amiel
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness … all the good things.”
― Maya Angelou
“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
― Arianna Huffington
“I think in every lesson there’s a blessing, and there’s so many blessings from all the lessons I’ve had to go through in life.”
― Alonzo Mourning
It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” ― Germany Kent
Motivational Thanksgiving quotes
“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”
― Rhonda Byrne
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
“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
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
― John F. Kennedy
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
― Karl Barth
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
― Margaret Cousins
“It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.”
― Drew Barrymore
“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.”
― Deepak Chopra
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
― C.S. Lewis
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
― Maria Shriver
“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
― Alfred North Whitehead
Funny Thanksgiving quotes
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.” — Jim Davis
“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.” — Howie Mandel
“Thanksgiving: when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook.” — Melanie White
“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.” — Jay Leno
“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.” — Gloria Fallon
The average time for eating a Thanksgiving dinner is 12 minutes, which, incidentally, coincides with halftime.” — Erma Bombeck
“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it ‘Thanksgiving?’” — Erma Bombeck
“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” — Richard Roeper
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance”
“Hope my relatives are getting along with the professional line sitter I hired to hold my place at the front of the Thanksgiving food line.” — John Lyon
“I love spending Thanksgiving surrounded by all these great friends I met in the Best Buy parking lot.” — John Lyon
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
― A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”
Thanksgiving quotes about family
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” ― Thomas Fuller
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, “A Tour Round My Garden”
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life”
― Melody Beattie
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
― Lionel Hampton
“Friendship’s the wine of life.”
― Edward Young
“Giving is the key to living life of abundance blessings.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
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