140 Best Thanksgiving Quotes

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes. 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. Thanksgiving is a time for gathering with friends and family over delicious home-cooked meals. We have Thanksgiving quotes for every mood. The holidays, even with all of their chaos, keep us grounded in tradition and relationships. It’s the time of year to remember what really counts, and that’s why we’re so happy to share the greatest 140 Thanksgiving quotes that will make you feel #blessed!

Thanksgiving dinner kicks off the hectic holiday season. Thanksgiving’s message of gratitude can get lost in the shuffle when you’re juggling a long list of side-heavy tasks. Thanksgiving can be a hectic day between preparing the house for guests, cooking, and entertaining everyone. You can keep your guests busy with festive activities and family-friendly games, or you can watch a Thanksgiving movie with the kids.

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“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” — Unknown

“Forever on Thanksgiving, the heart will find the pathway home.” — Unknown

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“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” — Unknown

“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.” — Opera Winfrey

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

“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.

“No run on my bank can drain it.” — Unknown

“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is a content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” — Seneca

“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

“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” — Brené Brown

Thanksgiving Quotes

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” — Maya Angelou

“Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.” — Aristotle

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“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.” — GZA

“‘Enough’ is a feast.” — Buddhist proverb

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” — William James

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward

“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” — John Ortberg

“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” — Maya Angelou

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” — John F. Kennedy

Thanksgiving Quotes To God

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.” — Joshua Kai

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” — Sharon Salzberg

“Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

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“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

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” — Eric Hoffer

“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” — Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” — Robert Quillen

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.” — Ann Voskamp

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others.” — Etty Hillesum

Best Thanksgiving Quotes

“Too often, we forget to thank the people who are closest to us. They are easy to take for granted, and we can expend all our patience and niceties on strangers and have only leftovers to give our family.” — Kent Brantly

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” — William Blake

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” — Voltaire

“There are bound to be problems and life is not perfect but we can be grateful for all the pieces of life that are happy and harmonious. The other pieces will have their own way of falling into place.” — Donna Goddard

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“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

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” — Buddha

“Happiness already exists in your life. All you need to do is tune into it. And you can start doing that right now.” — Anthon St. Maarten

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward

“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes

“Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” — Willard Scott

“Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.” — Dan Buettner

“Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.” — Alexandra Katehakis

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“Grateful for each hand we hold, gathered round this table.” — Mary Chapin Carpenter

“Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.” — Lawrence Welk

“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” — Brian Tracy

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” — Dalai Lama

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.” — W.T. Purkiser

“So for tonight we pray for what we know can be. And on this day we hope for what we still can’t see. It’s up to us to be the change. And even though we all can still do more, there’s so much to be thankful for.” — Josh Groban

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Short Thanksgiving Quotes

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” — Albert Schweitzer

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” — A.A. Milne

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“Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.” — Dennis Prager

“Embrace life’s lessons with gratitude and appreciation and then move forward with an open heart and mind.” — Ron Baratono

“I am one of the happiest gals you know because I choose it every single day. I choose to practice gratitude; I choose to surround myself with things and people who support positivity.” — Rachel Hollis

“Sometimes we focus so much on what we don’t have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!” — Jeff Dixon

“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.” — Todd Stocker

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” — C.S. Lewis

Thanksgiving Quotes For Appreciation

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — William Wordsworth

for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.” — Henry David Thoreau

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” — W. Clement Stone

“If you think of all the people you know, you will not be able to name one who is ungrateful and happy. The two are mutually exclusive.” — Dennis Prager

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” — Thornton Wilder

“No matter what our circumstances, we can find a reason to be thankful.” — David Jeremiah

“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” — Frank A. Clark

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden

“Every single time I gave gratitude, even for the littlest thing, I felt I touched a presence greater than myself.” — Josie Robinson

“My thanksgiving is perpetual… Oh how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches.”

Funny Thanksgiving Quotes

“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” — Robert Caspar Lintner

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.” — Henry Clay

“Everything changed when I switched from saying ‘I have to do this’ to ‘I GET to do this.'” — Charlotte Eriksson

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have—life itself.” — Walter Anderson

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson

“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” — Amit Ray

“Every time we decide to be grateful it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen

“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton

“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.” — Germany Kent

“If you attain fame and fortune, and do not attain gratitude along with it, the chances are that you will not enjoy that fame or that fortune.” — Napoleon Hill

Thanksgiving Quotes For Friends

“In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day—or to celebrate each special day.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Count your blessings. Focus on what you’ve got. Spread the positive vibes.” — Jyoti Patel

“When you drink from the stream remember the spring.” — Chinese proverb

“If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we’d all be much happier.” — John Wooden

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” — Maya Angelou

“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.” — Thomas Goodwin

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” — Charles Spurgeon

“When I force myself to utter the awkward phrase, ‘I am grateful,’ I actually start to feel a bit more grateful…It’s basic cognitive behavioral therapy: Behave in a certain way, and your mind will eventually catch up with your actions.” — A.J. Jacobs

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

“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

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson

“They do not love, that do not show their love.” — William Shakespeare

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” — Aesop

“Gratitude tends to attract the things for which we are grateful in advance.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” — Roy T. Bennett

“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.” — Alexandre Dumas

“Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.” — Ann Voskamp

“Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift – today.” — Steve Maraboli

“I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.” — Roger Federer

Thanksgiving Day Quotes

“Gratitude is a feedback loop that will show you where you are thriving.” — Danielle LaPorte

“He who thanks but with the lips, thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving, comes from the heart.” — J.A. Shedd

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” — Denis Waitley

“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…It’s something we make inside ourselves.” — Corrie Ten Boom

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” — Oscar Wilde

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller

Famous Thanksgiving Images and Quotes

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You should take this opportunity to reflect on the meaning of Thanksgiving, which is to express gratitude to God for the many blessings he has bestowed upon us, including our loved ones, our health, and our friendships. Try on some of these Thanksgiving images for size if you’re looking for some motivation to get through this year. These Thanksgiving quotes are perfect for any occasion, whether you’re looking for a Thanksgiving blessing to recite before you carve the turkey or an encouraging Instagram caption to accompany your Turkey Day photographs. These witty and thought-provoking sayings can also be of assistance to you when you are thinking of what to say during your Thanksgiving toast or when you are trying to decide what to write on a Thanksgiving card.