30 Quotes for the New Year

Are you getting ready to welcome 2024? New Year’s Eve and Day are a great opportunity to post to your social media platforms. Do you need inspiring quotes to add to your posts? If you are searching for the right words, consider the following New Year’s quotes.

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Quotes to Welcome the New Year

  1. “Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself.” – Unknown
  2. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  3. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. “Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings.” – Peggy Toney Horton
  5. “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” – Susan Sontag
  6. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ―Josiyah Martin
  7. “In this new year, be grateful that God has given you victory over many things over the past year.” – Steven M. Hitchcock
  8. “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” – Dave Beard
  9. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan
  10. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ―Germany Kent
  11. “A worthy New Year’s resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose.” – Robert Brault
  12. “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately, we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
  13. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
  14. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis
  15. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
  16. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” —Neil Gaiman
  17. “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” —Göran Persson
  18. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
  19. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” —Hal Borland
  20. “Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” —Michael Josephson
  21. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” —David Bowie
  22. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin
  23. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” —David McCullough Jr.
  24. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” —Joey Adams
  25. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” —Arthur Rubenstein
  26. “Be the girl who decided to go for it.” —Unknown
  27. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
  28. “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” —Nick Frederickson
  29. “We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” —Hillary DePiano
  30. “The attraction of New Year is this: The year changes, and in that change, we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult, however, to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page.” ― R. Joseph Hoffmann

Happy New Year! Have a great 2024!

54 Quotes to Celebrate Autumn

The official start of Autumn is almost here! The season brings beautiful foliage, football, cider, pumpkin spice, and much more. Posting fall quotes is a wonderful way to celebrate everything the season has to offer. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes to celebrate Autumn.

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  1. “I sit beside the fire and think / Of all that I have seen / Of meadow flowers and butterflies / In summers that have been / Of yellow leaves and gossamer / In autumns that there were / With morning mist and silver sun / And wind upon my hair.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. “Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — John Howard Bryant
  3. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” –  L.M. Montgomery
  4. “The weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.” – Unknown
  5. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
  6. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau
  7. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” — Chad Sugg
  8. “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” — Nora Ephron
  9. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.” –  George Eliot
  10. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
  11. “Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”  – William Cullen Bryant
  12. “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”  – Unknown
  13. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  14. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
  15. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”  – Victoria Erickson
  16. “The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” — Henry Beston
  17. “I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” — Lee Maynard
  18. “Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.” – J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
  19. “Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” – Robert Browning
  20. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J. K. Rowling
  21. “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
  22. “It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” — Winnie the Pooh, Pooh’s Grand Adventure
  23. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  24. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
  25. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
  26. “Go, sit upon the lofty hill, and turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart— Sit still— as all transform’d to stone, Except your musing heart.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  27. “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves / We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
  28. “That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” — Wallace Stegner
  29. “I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” –  Dodinsky
  30. “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” –  Unknown
  31. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf
  32. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” — Joe L. Wheeler
  33. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”– Ann Drake
  34. “Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting and Autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz
  35. “Autumn dresses up in gold; the richest season of the soul.”— Angie Weiland Crosby
  36. “If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.” — Kyle Lake
  37. “Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?” — L.M. Montgomery
  38. “Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.” — Walt Whitman
  39. “The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
  40. “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Rémy de Gourmont
  41. “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like / they’re falling in love with the ground.” — Andrea Gibson
  42. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens
  43. “Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” — Winston Graham
  44. “And I rose / In rainy autumn / And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…” — Dylan Thomas
  45. “Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” — Lauren DeStefano
  46. “Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” — Siobhan Vivian, Same Difference
  47. “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” — Jane Hirshfield
  48. “It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” — P.D. James
  49. “Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.” — Hal Borland
  50. “Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.” — Leo Tolstoy
  51. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
  52. “Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home. Autumn would come and the air would grow cool, dry and magic, as it does that time of the year.” — Henry Rollins
  53. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” — John Muir, The Mountains of California
  54. “He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” — J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Have a wonderful Autumn season!

48 Inspirational Quotes for the 4th of July

Independence Day is almost here. Are you searching for the perfect quotes to add to your Fourth of July creations or social media posts? Quotes are a great way to capture your thoughts and feelings about the holiday. If you need help finding the right one, check out the following inspirational quotes for the 4th of July.

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  1. “Independence Day: freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
  2. “America is a tune. It must be sung together.”- Gerald Stanley Lee
  3. “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.” – Erma Bombeck
  4. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”  – William Faulkner
  5. “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like me, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
  6. “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”— President Harry S. Truman
  7. “People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That’s not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It’s about we the people!” – Camila Alves
  8. “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis
  9. “America is another name for opportunity.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
  10. “The fact is, with every friendship you make and every bond you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world.” – Michelle Obama
  11. “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” – John Adams
  12. “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” – John Dickinson
  13. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
  14. Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin
  15. “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”  – Abraham Lincoln
  16. “We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. – Robert J. McCracken
  17. “America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen but where they happen all the time.” – Thomas Wolfe
  18. “I am an American, free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  19. “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
  20. “We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” – Lech Walesa
  21. “I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” – Wendell L. Wilkie
  22. “Give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry
  23. “The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” – James G. Blaine
  24. “America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.”  – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  25. “All we use or know — this our fathers bought for us long ago.” –  Rudyard Kipling
  26. “The red and white and starry blue is freedom’s shield and hope.” – John Philip Sousa
  27. “My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.” – Val Saintsburt
  28. “It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.” -Stephen Colbert
  29. “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
  30. “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” — Barack Obama
  31. “So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  32. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” -Gloria Steinem
  33. “I love my freedom. I love my America.” – Jessi Lane Adams
  34. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” –  Herbert Hoover
  35. “All people are born alike. Except Republicans and Democrats.” — Groucho Marx
  36. “Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.” — Calvin Coolidge
  37. “Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”— Sinclair Lewis
  38. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” —Mark Twain
  39. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”— Bill Clinton
  40. ¨God Bless America, my home, sweet home.¨— Irving Berlin
  41. “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
  42. “Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.” — Hillary Clinton
  43. “I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks.” — James Lafferty
  44. “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  45. “Happy 4th of July! Drink until you see stars… and stripes!” — Unknown
  46. “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what`s right.” – Bringham Young
  47. “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” — Ronald Reagan
  48. ¨One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!¨— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have a great 4th of July!

25 Inspiring Football Quotes

Are you going to watch the Super Bowl tonight? Championship games always bring out the best in sports. Over the years, coaches and players put their love of the game into inspiring words. If you want to add these words of inspiration to your social media posts, check out the following football quotes.

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  1. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz
  2. “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” – Walter Payton
  3. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George S. Halas
  4. “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” –Tom Landry
  5. “Success isn’t owned, it’s leased. And rent is due every day.” – J.J. Watt
  6. “You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.” –Joe Paterno
  7. “When you don’t give up, you cannot fail.” –  Adrian Peterson
  8. “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” – Terry Bradshaw
  9. “Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.” –Vince Lombardi
  10. “Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.” – Patrick Mahomes
  11. “Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.” – John Madden
  12. “Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” –Mike Ditka
  13. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vince Lombardi
  14. “Do you know my favorite part about the game is? The opportunity to play.” – Mike Singletary
  15. “I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.” – Urban Meyer
  16. “No matter the circumstances you may be going through, just push through it.” –Ray Lewis
  17. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size in the fight of the dog.” –Archie Griffin
  18. “When you’ve got the momentum in a football game, that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone. We want to score for America’s families.” – Vince Lombardi
  19. “At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.” – George S. Halas
  20. “I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated.” –Emmitt Smith
  21. “You cannot make progress with excuses.” –Cam Newton
  22. “You can learn a line from a win and a book from defeat.” –Paul Brown
  23. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” –Bo Jackson
  24. “Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.” – Tom Landry
  25. “Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.” – Russell Wilson

Enjoy the game!

22 Quotes for the New Year

Are you searching for inspirational quotes for New Year’s Eve or Day for your social media platforms? A few inspiring words are a great way to kick off 2022!

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  1. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie
  2. “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” – Dr. Seuss
  3. “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.” – Ellen Goodman
  4. “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — William E. Vaughan
  5. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
  6. “The bad news is time flies. The good new is you’re the pilot” – Michael Altshuler
  7. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” – Johnathon Huie
  8. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma
  9. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ―Josiyah Martin
  10. “The best is yet to come.” – Frank Sinatra
  11. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan
  12. “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately, we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
  13. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie
  14. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” —Nido Qubein
  15. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” —Charles Lamb
  16. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
  17. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce
  18. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan
  19. “Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
  20. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” T.S. Eliot
  21. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” —Socrates
  22. “Don’t make plans. Make options.” —Jennifer Aniston

Happy New Year!

50 Quotes for 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.

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  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!