Thanksgiving Quotes

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Reflect upon your present blessings

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

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.

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

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.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration.

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.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.