Share These Thanksgiving Quotes With Friends and Family for the Holiday
Thanksgiving is a beloved holiday that gives us the perfect excuse to stuff our faces with turkey and mashed potatoes. We're excited just thinking about the Thanksgiving menu this year! And, there's nothing like catching up with family and friends by sharing the most hilarious stories and taking part in our yearly Thanksgiving activities. But, if we really want to get in the spirit of Thanksgiving, it's important to remember just what we're thankful for ahead of the season. So, we compiled a list of the best Thanksgiving quotes that help remind us of what it's all about!
Whether you recite them on their own or as part of a meaningful Thanksgiving dinner toast, these quotes are sure to inspire you and all of your loved ones. You could also use them to create a thoughtful segue into a Thanksgiving prayer. For example, we think Shakespeare's words would work perfectly: "O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness." You'll also find plenty of lighter quotes here in this collection. In fact, if you're looking for a funny option to use as a Thanksgiving Instagram caption, you'll probably appreciate this quote from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: “I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.” Now, that one is sure to bring on the laughs!
Read through these Thanksgiving quotes, and let us know which one you resonated with the most!
Lionel Hampton
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
Maya Angelou
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.”
Oprah Winfrey
“True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
Lindsey Bareham
“Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.”
Elie Wiesel
“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
Maya Angelou
“Be present in all things and thankful for all.”
Wilbur D. Nesbit
“Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”
Cynthia Rylant
“Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
William Arthur Ward
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
Willie Nelson
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
James E. Faust
“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
William Blake
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
“Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others.”
Al Green
“I’m thankful for every moment.”
Melody Beattie
“Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.”
Amy Grant
“Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
Jacob Tremblay
“I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it’s all about saying thank you; it’s being thankful.”
Ann Voskamp
“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
Linda Colley
“Thanksgiving is America’s favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.”
Will Arnett
“I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
Jon Pardi
“I’m just thankful I’m surrounded by good people.”
Lawrence Welk
“Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”
Rumi
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
Charlie Brown
“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”
Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Ina Garten
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”
William Shakespeare
“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”
Jennifer Lopez
"I’m grateful for everything I have. I’m grateful for it all. I’m grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life."
Marilyn Monroe
"Always remember to smile and look at what you got in life."
Charlotte Brontë
"For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever."
Chrissy Metz
"There is something that happens when you are grateful: You continue to keep receiving blessings. So I will always be grateful."
Alicia Keys
"I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, and frustration."
David Mamet
"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."
1 Chronicles 16:34
"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever."
Oprah Winfrey
"I live in the space of thankfulness—and for that, I have been rewarded a million times over."
Bing Crosby
"I've got plenty to be thankful for. I haven't got a great big yacht to sail from shore to shore... Still, I've got plenty to be thankful for."
Irving Berlin
"Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I'd like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night."
John Milton
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life."
Oprah Winfrey
"I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased."
Johnny Cash
"We've come to the time in the season
When family and friends gather near
To offer a prayer of Thanksgiving
For blessings we've known through the year."
Reba McEntire
"I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved."
Psalm 92
"It is good to give thanks to the Lord."
William Shakespeare
"I can no other answer make, but, thanks,
And thanks, and ever thanks."
Native American Saying
"Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way."
Victor Hugo
"Be grateful in your own hearts. That suffices. Thanksgiving has wings, and flies to its right destination."
Ernest Hemingway
"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
Jonathan Safran Foer
"Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble."
Charlie Brown
“What if today, we were just grateful for everything?”
Nora Ephron
“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.”
Marcus Samuelsson
"I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family."
Oprah Winfrey
"Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive."
Yogi Bhajan
"An attitude of gratitude brings great things."
Johannes A. Gaertner
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
W. Clement Stone
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
Randy Pausch
"Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other."
John F. Kennedy
"We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."
David Steindl-Rast
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
Robert Caspar Lintner
"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day."
Charles Dickens
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Gerald Good
"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."
Amy Leigh Mercree
“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
Wale Ayeni
“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
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