Thanksgiving is getting closer! Do you plan to post to your social media platforms? Are you searching for the right words to add to your posts? Adding a quote is a great way to enhance your posts. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes for Thanksgiving.
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- “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” — Norman Vincent Peale
- “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” – Nigel Hamilton
- “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.” – Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
- “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
- Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” – Amy Grant
- “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
- “To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.” – Thomas Merton
- “Home is people. Not a place.” ― Robin Hobb
- “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”—Tony Snow.
- “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W. T. Purkiser
- “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
- “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
- “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
- “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” – Willard Scott
- “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” — John Wooden
- “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
- “I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.” ― Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
- “Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi
- “Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks.” -Monique Hammond
- “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
- “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” – Maya Angelou
- “When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.” ― Roy Bennett
- “I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.”—Reba McEntire
- “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
- “Reflect upon your present blessings.”—Charles Dickens
- “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ”—W. Clement Stone
- “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.” ― Antonia Montoya
- “Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” — Sanchita Pandey
- “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”—Ernest Hemingway
- “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver
- “I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Wil Arnett
- “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” — Margaret Cousins
- “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
- “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”—Lawrence Welk
- Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” — Donna Hedges
- “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”—Neal A. Maxwell
- “Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.”—Melody Beattie
- “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”—Willie Nelson
- “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life” — Melody Beattie
- “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
- “Gratitude, help us to see what is there instead of what isn’t.” — Annette Bridges
- “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?” — Nora Ephron
- “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”—George Bernard Shaw
- “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” Marcus Samuelsson
- “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
- “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity … it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ― Melody Beattie
- When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”—Aesop
- “There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”—Joyce Meyer
- “You never know where a blessing can come from.” — Teena Marie
- “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”—Marcel Proust
- “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” ― Germany Kent
- “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”—William Arthur Ward
- “I think in every lesson there’s a blessing, and there’s so many blessings from all the lessons I’ve had to go through in life.” — Alonzo Mourning
- “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
- It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.” — Drew Barrymore
Happy Thanksgiving!