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Thanksgiving will be here soon.
A time to spend quality time with the people closest to us. For sharing a laugh and (too) big meals.
And for focusing extra on what really matters in life and on the gratitude we can feel for both the small and bigger things.
To help you with that and help you get into the spirit of the holiday, I want to share 101 of the most inspiring Thanksgiving quotes in today’s post.
I hope you will find something useful here, for yourself and for your loved ones. For this Thanksgiving and for the rest of your year.
Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes
“Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what happens to us in life, we can take the charred remains and reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than the one from which the shards and pieces fell.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so small when we realize how blessed and fortunate we are.”
– Joyce Giraud
“Gratitude is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of gratitude. Gratitude can only consist of words. Gratitude expresses itself in actions.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
– Danielle Duckery
“Gratitude is not only the greatest virtue, but the father of all others.”
– Cicero
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
– Melody Beattie
“When we give cheerfully and accept with gratitude, all are blessed.”
– Maya Angelou
“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton
“The heart that gives thanks is a happy heart, for we cannot feel grateful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglashout
“Appreciation can change a day, even a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all it takes.”
– Margaret Neven
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; it is the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.”
– Marcel Proust
“The more you practice the art of gratitude, the more you should be grateful.”
–Norman Vincent Peale
‘If you are truly grateful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone
“The grateful recipient bears a bountiful harvest.”
– William Blake
“Practicing gratitude creates a sense of respect for others.”
– Dalai Lama
“Develop the habit of being grateful for every good thing that happens to you and of giving thanks continually.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What I like about Thanksgiving is that it is purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It really is for everyone, and it doesn’t matter where you come from.”
– Daniel Humm
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation.”
– Dalai Lama
“Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all other holidays. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day, from Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are about gratitude in some way.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction.”
– HA Ironside
“Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season and represents food, family and moments of sharing and expressing gratitude.”
–Sarah Moore
“Thanksgiving was never intended to be shut down on one 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
“The ungrateful heart discovers no mercy; but the grateful heart will find some heavenly blessing at every hour.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“I’m happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Wil Arnett
Positive and Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes
“If you made a list of all the things you could be grateful for, the list would undoubtedly be longer than your adversities.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Gratitude can turn ordinary days into thanksgivings, routine tasks into joy, and ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward
“In life you have the choice to take one of two paths: wait for a special day – or celebrate every special day.”
– Rasheed Ogunlaru
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life changed.”
–Willie Nelson
“Thanksgiving is a joyful invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
–Amy Leigh Mercree
“Give thanks for a little and you will find much.”
– Hausa proverb
“The more you thank life, the more life gives you to be grateful for.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Be grateful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni
“What if we were just grateful for everything today?”
–Charlie Brown
“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp
“There is always something to be grateful for.”
–Charles Dickens
“When we focus on our gratitude, the flood of disappointment goes out and the flood of love comes in.”
–Kristin Armstrong
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop
“When asked if my cup is half full or half empty, my only answer is that I am grateful that I have a cup.”
– Sam Lefkowit
“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It ensures that what is excellent in others also belongs to us.”
– Voltaire
“There is always something to be grateful for.”
– Unknown
“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and count our blessings.”
– Marvin J. Ashton
“Be grateful for everything that happens in your life; it is all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett
“The true gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
–Robert Holden
“To express gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to express gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.”
– Johannes A. Gaertner
“What seems unimportant when you have it is important when you need it.”
– Franz Grillparzer
“The grateful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that surround us all the time.”
– James E. Faust
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things people can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch
“True thanksgiving means that we should thank God for what He has done for us, and not tell Him what we have done for Him.”
–George R. Hendrick
Funny and Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes
“Thanksgiving, the day when there is never enough food. You can’t just have any turkey. No, it must also include roast beef or ham. Or both. It’s the only day we have mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes.”
–Lewis Black
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing to our families.”
– Jay McInerney
“The average time to eat a Thanksgiving dinner is 12 minutes, which coincides with halftime.”
– Erma Bombeck
“When you think about Thanksgiving dinner, it’s basically like making a big chicken.”
– Ina Tuin
“Thanksgiving is America’s national chowdown holiday, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.”
– Michael Dresser
“You can tell you’ve eaten too much before Thanksgiving when you have to take off your bathrobe.”
– Jay Leno
“After a good dinner one can forgive everyone, even one’s own relations.”
–Oscar Wilde
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a drink.”
– Erma Bombeck
“An optimist is someone who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet
“Vegetables are a must in a diet. I recommend carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”
–Jim Davis
“Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! It is the day you forget all the fights and divisions in the world and just focus on all the fights and divisions in your family.
–Jimmy Fallon
‘The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The filling. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we can all agree on so fiercely?”
– Nora Ephron
“Thanksgiving, dude. Not a good day to be my pants.
–Kevin James
“Thanksgiving: When the Most Grateful People Are Those Who Didn’t Have to Cook.”
– Melanie White
“Thanksgiving makes me all warm and tingly, and gives me all kinds of wonderful things inside.”
– Willard Scott
“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discovering it once a year is far too often.”
–Johnny Carson
“What we’re really talking about is a beautiful day on the fourth Thursday of November when no one is on a diet.”
– Erma Bombeck
Short and Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes
“I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday that focuses on food and family.”
–Marcus Samuelsson
“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Michael Beckwith
“Thanksgiving is the meal we strive for other meals to resemble.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“Gratitude is the best attitude.”
– Unknown
“Mercy is not a little prayer you say before a meal. It’s a way of life.”
– Jackie Windspear
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
–Oscar Wilde
“True gratitude is the ability to humbly give thanks in advance.”
– Rosemarie Rossetti
“Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, greed, lust and ambition look forward.”
– C.S. Lewis
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust
“Reflect on your present blessings.”
–Charles Dickens
“Gratitude is the wine of the soul. Go on. Getting drunk.”
– Rumi
“When it comes to life, it is crucial whether you take things for granted or accept them with gratitude.”
–Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
–Bruce Wilkinson
“Gratitude creates gratitude that generates contentment that generates peace.”
–Todd Stocker
“No gesture is too small if it is done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Give thanks for unknown blessings that are already coming.”
– Native American proverb
“Life is better when you are grateful.”
– Joyce Meijer
“A small cheer and a big welcome make for a joyful celebration.”
– William Shakespeare
“Good mashed potatoes are one of life’s greatest luxuries.”
–Lindsey Bareham
“Kindness is always in fashion.”
– Amelia Barr
“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman
“Be grateful for what you have; you will have more of it eventually.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things people can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch
“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.”
–Amy Collette
“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by lending a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
– Helen Keller
“Thank you is the best prayer anyone can say.”
– Alice Walker
“The most grateful person is the most fully human.”
– John Henry Jowett
Do you want more inspiration for the holidays? Check out these top 30 Thanksgiving quotes and the 100 short Thanksgiving captions in this post. Plus the 101 inspirational Christmas quotes here and the short Christmas quotes in this post.