30 Quotes for Thanksgiving 2025

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Are you getting ready for Thanksgiving? Do you want to add meaningful sentiments to your personal or business social media posts? Using quotes is a great way to express your views of the holiday. If you are searching for inspiration, consider the following quotes for Thanksgiving.

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  1. “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”—Roy T. Bennett
  2. “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” — Mary Davis
  3. “Gratitude, help us to see what is there instead of what isn’t.”— Annette Bridges
  4. “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” – Amy Grant
  5. “Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them… are in one way or another about being thankful.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
  6. To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.” – Thomas Merton
  7. “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde
  8. “Food is better in November than any other time of the year.” – Cynthia Rylant
  9. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”William Arthur Ward
  10. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” — Unknown
  11. “I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.” — Oprah Winfrey
  12. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” — Nigel Hamilton
  13. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” Henry David Thoreau
  14. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault
  15. “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” — Erma Bombeck
  16. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa
  17. “Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.” — Wilbur D. Nesbit
  18. “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
  19. “Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries in life.” Lindsey Bareham
  20. “I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” — Marcus Samuelsson
  21. “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
  22. “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:18
  23. “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
  24. “He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart.” — J.A. Shedd
  25. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” — George Bernard Shaw
  26. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” — Anthony Brandt
  27. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings.” — Joyce Giraud
  28. “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” — Robert Caspar Lintner
  29. “Thanksgiving is not just a day. It’s a way we can live our lives every day.” — Katrina Mayer
  30. “What if, today, we were grateful for everything?” — Charlie Brown

Happy Thanksgiving!

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