Thanksgiving Gratitude Quotes

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

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

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.

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

The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

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.

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.

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!

There is one day that is ours. 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.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

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.

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

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.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

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.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.