Quotes to Celebrate Thanksgiving 2026

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Thanksgiving is almost here. Do you plan to post to your public social media platforms? Using quotes is a great way to express your feelings about the holiday. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes for Thanksgiving.

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  1. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” — Nigel Hamilton
  2. “It’s one thing to be grateful. It’s another to give thanks. Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.” —Tim Keller
  3. “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
  4. “When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite ‘thank you,’ it is the recognition of dependence.” —Billy Graham
  5. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” — Henry David Thoreau
  6. “My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.” – Katharine McPhee
  7. “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” — Robert Caspar Lintner
  8. “Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.” – Wilbur D. Nesbit
  9. “Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.” —Karl Barth
  10. “What if, today, we were grateful for everything?” — Charlie Brown
  11. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – Meister Eckhart
  12. “Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.” – Jefferson Bethke
  13. “No matter how good things are in my life, there are always problems I must deal with, and no matter how bad things are in my life, there are always blessings I can be grateful for.” —Rick Warren
  14. “He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart.” — J.A. Shedd
  15. “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” – Erma Bombeck
  16. “Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.” —Max Lucado
  17. “Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them… are in one way or another about being thankful.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
  18. “A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for”—Norman Vincent Peale
  19. “Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It’s not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.” —Tony Evans
  20. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.” — W.T. Purkiser
  21. “I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it’s all about saying thank you; it’s being thankful.”—Jacob Tremblay
  22. “Our gratitude belongs first to God, because without Him, we would have nothing.” —Joyce Meyer
  23. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings.” — Joyce Giraud
  24. “I’m thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.”—Ron Perlman
  25. “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.” —Psalmist, Psalm 136:1
  26. “Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.” — Danielle Duckery
  27. “Thanksgiving is a time to remember we are all created in the image of God. In Christ, no matter where we live or under what circumstances, we can be thankful for the hope He offers and the security that God keeps His promises, not just one or two days a year, but every day.” —Francine Rivers
  28. “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.” — Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  29. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”—Aesop
  30. “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
  31. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson
  32. “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” – Marcus Samuelsson
  33. “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?” — Nora Ephron
  34. “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” — Mary Davis
  35. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” — Unknown
  36. “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”—Lawrence Welk
  37. “Reflect upon your present blessings.”—Charles Dickens
  38. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox
  39. “Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” — Alan D. Wolfelt
  40. “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”—Victor Hugo
  41. “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”—Amy Grant
  42. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” – Willard Scott
  43. “My favorite meal is Thanksgiving dinner. I love it more than anything else.” — Ruth Reichl
  44. “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
  45. “Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.” — Fennel Hudson
  46. “Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.” — Lindsey Bareham
  47. “An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.” — Irv Kupcinet
  48. “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”—Tony Snow
  49. “You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.” — Jay Leno
  50. “Turkey: the only time it’s socially acceptable to nap immediately after eating.” — Unknown
  51. “Overeating at Thanksgiving is a tradition — just like watching football in sweatpants.” — Unknown
  52. “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” — Jean-Baptiste Massieu

Happy Thanksgiving!

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