Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

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.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

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

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

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.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

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!

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

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

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

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

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

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

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

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

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 would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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

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

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

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.