It’s all too easy to become engrossed in our hectic lives. These Thanksgiving quotes will make you grateful whenever you need them.
Life can change as swiftly as the seasons, from New Year’s resolutions to summer vacations and holidays.
That is why it is so important to take time to halt, reflect, and be grateful for all of our benefits.
In that spirit, here are 117 Thanksgiving Quotes to use during the holidays and all year long.
50+ Top Thanksgiving Quotes to Make You More Greatful
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
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.__Willard Scott
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.― Jon Stewart
Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks.___Monique Hammond
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. – W. J. Cameron
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.― W.T. Purkiser
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.___Marcus Tullius Cicero
And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks.___John Taylor
Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.___Nigel Hamilton
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.― Erma Bombeck
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.__John F. Kennedy
Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. – Robert Caspar Lintner
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.___W. T. Purkiser
Quotes about Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.___J. Robert Moskin
We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions.___Albert Barnes
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.– William Jennings Bryan
Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.___Margaret Cousins
Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.― Ann Voskamp
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.___Theodore Roosevelt
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.___Meister Eckhart
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.___John F. Kennedy
Here in Britain, of course, it’s Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day.― Warren Ellis
Give thanks as if you are living just to appreciate life. Live as if your life depends on love, kindness, gratitude, and thanksgiving.― Debasish Mridha
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.___Neal A. Maxwell
Giving thanks, being appreciative, and expressing gratitude are the quickest way to abundance.― Debasish Mridha
Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!___Henry Ward Beecher
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
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. – William Blake
Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.― Todd Stocker
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
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.― Craig Ferguson
Don’t forget to thank God when you get what you prayed for.― Deeksha Arora
I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.___Marcus Samuelsson
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.___Melody Beattie
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.___H. U. Westermayer
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.___Ray Stannard Baker
A little “thank you” that you will say to someone for a “little favour” shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen “greater favours”. Learn to say “thank you” and why not?― Israelmore Ayivor
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.__Dalai Lama
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.___Henry Ward Beecher
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.― W. Clement Stone
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.__Gerald Good
Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.___Amy Leigh Mercree
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.― Augusten Burroughs
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.___Bobby Jindal
My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.___Henry David Thoreau
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.___W. Clement Stone
Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.― Thomas Merton
He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart.___J. A. Shedd
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.― Oscar Wilde
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
A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher.― Israelmore Ayivor
Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.___Wilbur D. Nesbit
Give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.___Brian Tracy
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.___Phillips Brooks
The most thankful person is the most fully human. – Thomas Goodwin,What Happens When I Pray
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.___Alexander Pope
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
Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy. – Jefferson Bethke
My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.___Katharine McPhee
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.___O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.___George W. Bush
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. – Maya Angelou
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.___Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.___Charles Dickens
Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.___Craig D. Lounsbrough