Category: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is almost here. Are you looking to add quotes to your social media posts, company email, or your bulletin board at work? The following quotes are great for remembering Thanksgiving.

1. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” – Nigel Hamilton
2. “In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day just to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings.” — Cynthia Rylant
3. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
4. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy
5. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
6. “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”—Tony Snow.
7. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W. T. Purkiser
8. “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
9. “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
10. “The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It’s circular, and it leads to a happier life.”—Steve Goodier
11. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” – Willard Scott
12. “I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.” — Oprah Winfrey
13. “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”—Amy Grant
14. “Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks.” -Monique Hammond
15. “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
16. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” — Henry David Thoreau
17. “I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.”—Reba McEntire
18. “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
19. “Reflect upon your present blessings.”—Charles Dickens
20. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ”—W. Clement Stone
21. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
22. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”—Ernest Hemingway
23. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.”—Harry A. Ironside
24. “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”—Friedrich Koenig
25. “Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries in life.” — Lindsey Bareham
26. “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
27. “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”—Lawrence Welk
28. “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”—Neal A. Maxwell
29. “Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.”—Melody Beattie
30. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”—Willie Nelson
31. “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
32. “Gratitude, help us to see what is there instead of what isn’t.” — Annette Bridges
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. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”—George Bernard Shaw
35. “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” Marcus Samuelsson
36. “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
37. “The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”—Henry Ward Beecher
38. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”—Aesop
39. “There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”—Joyce Meyer
40. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”—Marcel Proust
41. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”—William Arthur Ward
42. “I’m thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.”—Ron Perlman
43. “I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it’s all about saying thank you; it’s being thankful.”—Jacob Tremblay
44. “A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for”—Norman Vincent Peale
45. “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” – Erma Bombeck
46. “Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.” –  Jefferson Bethke
47. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – Meister Eckhart
48. “Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.” – Wilbur D. Nesbit
49. “My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.” – Katharine McPhee
50. “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

Happy Thanksgiving!