16 Quotes of Thanksgiving to Read Before the Big Dinner
As you prepare this year's Thanksgiving dinner, take a few minutes to stop and reflect on all you have to be thankful for this season. To help you get into the holiday spirit, we've rounded up some of our favorite Thanksgiving quotes. These phrases from authors, celebrities and television characters will help remind you to practice gratitude as the day of the big holiday meal draws closer.
Use these quotes to inspire this year's holiday traditions (like a DIY family gratitude tree) or borrow one for this year's Thanksgiving Instagram caption. However you use them, we hope these phrases will bring a smile to your face this holiday season.
Grateful for Everything
"What if today, we were just grateful for everything?"
—Charlie Brown
Perpetual Thanksgiving
"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."
—Henry David Thoreau
Present and Thankful
"Be present in all things and thankful for all."
—Maya Angelou
The Big Feast
"It's not too much food. This is what we've been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour."
—Lorelai Gilmore
Find the Good
"Even in the trials of life, if we have eyes to see them, we can find good things everywhere we look."
—Joanna Gaines
Turkey Time
"The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so."
—Nora Ephron
Reflect Upon Your Blessings
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
—Charles Dickens
Be Thankful
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more."
—Oprah Winfrey
Give Thanks
"Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have."
—Catherine Pulsifer
Say Thank You
"We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."
—John F. Kennedy
Thankfulness Is the Path to Joy
"Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy."
—Jefferson Bethke
Count Your Blessings
"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
A Merry Feast
"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."
—William Shakespeare
Be Thankful for What You Have
"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
—Ernest Hemingway
Expressing Gratitude
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
—William Arthur Ward
Give Thanks for Your Blessings
"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
