Thankful Thanksgiving Quotes:

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inner Life, I Am Thankful

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation, Inspirational Gratitude, Thankful Heart

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

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thank You, Social Good, Joy And Gratitude

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

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kindness, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Food, Mean, Talking, Wishbones, Inspirational Thanksgiving

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Gratitude, Heart, Parent, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thankful Heart

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation, Inspirational Gratitude, Love Gratitude

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

- Albert C. Barnes

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankful, Dark, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Daily Gratitude

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

- Charles Dickens

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You, Being Blessed, Inspirational Gratitude

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, Basketball, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thank You

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.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Thank You, Appreciation, Appreciate, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Gratitude And Appreciation

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

- W. T. Purkiser

topic: Thanksgiving, Blessing, Use, Being Blessed, I Am Thankful

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Gratitude, Mean, Night, Day After Thanksgiving, Thankful Thanksgiving

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

- Wallace D. Wattles

topic: Gratitude, Advancement, Should, Spiritual Gratitude, Gratitude To God

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

- John Henry Jowett

topic: Spiritual, Gratitude, Passion, Lack Of Gratitude, Family Gratitude

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Happiness, Gratitude, Heart, Gratitude To God, Thankful Heart

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1850). “Beauties of George Herbert: with Selections from “The Synagogue.””, p.14

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude, Thanksgiving Day

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

- Alice Walker

topic: Gratitude, Prayer, Being Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude, Inspirational Thank You

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

- Storm Jameson

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankfulness, May, Thankful Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Greetings

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

- Bobby Jindal

topic: Family, Thanksgiving, Real, Family Thanksgiving, Too Real

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Thank You, Uplifting, Thankful, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

- John Taylor

source: John Taylor (1872). “Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. [Reprints of 21 separately issued pieces.] Edited by C. Hindley. L.P.”

topic: Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankfulness, Thankful Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Greetings

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

- Jacques Maritain

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Courtesy, I Am Thankful, Work Appreciation

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

- George W. Bush

topic: Thanksgiving, Blessing, America, Thanksgiving Day, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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.

- Epicurus

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Philosophy, Inspirational Gratitude

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends... Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Appreciation, Gratitude, Love Gratitude, Wrapping

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.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Thanksgiving, Being Happy, Gratitude, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Thanksgiving, Blessing, Thankful To God, Praise And Thanksgiving, Friends Thanksgiving

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Dream, Gratitude, Blessing, Thankful For Blessings, Thankful For What You Have

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

- Jim Gaffigan

source: "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

topic: People, Drunk, What If, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Thankful Thanksgiving

It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.

- Donald Curtis

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful, Thankful Thanksgiving

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Thanksgiving, Years, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving Day, Day After Thanksgiving

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

- Margaret Cousins

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thank You, Appreciation, Willingness, Inspirational Gratitude, Inspirational Thanksgiving

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

- Margaret Junkin Preston

source: Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

topic: Sweet, Lying, Pie, Christian Thanksgiving, Melons

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.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Positive, Thank You, Thankful, Concentrating, Spiritual Blessings

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!

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Optimistic, I Am Thankful, Thankful Heart

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

- Willie Nelson

source: "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, 2006.

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Self Confidence, Being Blessed, Spiritual Gratitude

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

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

- Wilson Mizner

topic: Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Grateful For You

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Thank You, Inspirational Gratitude, Inspirational Thanksgiving

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

topic: Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thankful, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thank You