Thanksgiving Gratitude Quotes:

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Giving Up, Love And Gratitude, Grateful For You

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

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

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

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

- Izaak Walton

source: Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

- Henry Jacobsen

topic: Funny Thanksgiving, Praise, Praise God, Thanksgiving Day, Praise And Thanksgiving

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Success, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Life Appreciation, Daily Gratitude

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

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

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

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.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Funny, Thanksgiving, Land, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful, Individual Morality, Spiritual Gratitude

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

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving

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

- Wilson Mizner

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

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

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

- Alice Walker

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

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.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Thanksgiving, Holiday, Emotional, Day After Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Birthday, Inspiring, Gratitude, Spiritual Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

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.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope, “Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book”

topic: Thanksgiving, Littles, Patient, Inspirational Thanksgiving, 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

He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart.

- John G. Shedd

source: "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705, 2006.

topic: Gratitude, Heart, Lips, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

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

- Irv Kupcinet

topic: Thanksgiving Day, Optimist, Persons, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

- Jacques Maritain

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

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

- Aesop

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

- James Allen

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

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Love, Positive, Spiritual, Consumed, Inner Happiness

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Life, Thanksgiving, Grateful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

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

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

- Christiane Northrup

topic: Grateful, Appreciate, Community, Spiritual Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Thanksgiving, Sports, Food, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

- Melody Beattie

topic: Gratitude, Meals, Turns, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. 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.

- Henri Nouwen

source: Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual, Gift Of Love, Thanksgiving Gratitude

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

- Lionel Hampton

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

topic: Thank You, Gratitude, Memories, Thank You Gratitude, Thanksgiving Gratitude

As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.

- David Steindl-Rast

source: David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.49, Paulist Press

topic: Gratitude, Circles, Growth, Thanksgiving Gratitude

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.

- Ted Allen

topic: Thanksgiving, Lying, Home, Everybody Lies, Friends Thanksgiving

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

- Robert Breault

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Thankful Heart, Daily Gratitude

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

- William Jennings Bryan

topic: Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Acknowledge, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

- Tony Robbins

source: Twitter post from Jan 08, 2017

topic: Motivational, Gratitude, Powerful, Joy And Gratitude, Spiritual Gratitude

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

source: Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

topic: Ungrateful People, Men, Garden, Thankful Gratitude, Thanksgiving Grateful

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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Importunate, Had A Great Time

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

- Dan Buettner

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Gratitude And Appreciation, Showing Gratitude

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Roots, Joy And Gratitude, Work Appreciation

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Faith, Gratitude, Grateful, Take Nothing For Granted, Inspirational 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

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

- Voltaire

topic: Appreciation, Morning, Light, Life Appreciation, Morning Light

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

- Ralph Blum

topic: Gratitude, Joy, Quiet, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

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.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Gratitude, Discipline, Joy, Joy And Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude