Thanksgiving Thankful Quotes:

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

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

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

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

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, I Am Thankful, Inspirational 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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Thankful, I Am Thankful, Spiritual 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

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Henry Allen Ironside

topic: Thanksgiving, Kids, Worry, Worry Less, Thankful Heart

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Thanksgiving, Being Thankful, Important, Thankful For What You Have, Thanksgiving Holiday

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

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

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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

- Cornelius Plantinga

source: Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Christian, Funny Thanksgiving, Being Thankful, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Christian Thanksgiving

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

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

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 turns what we have into enough.

- Melody Beattie

topic: Gratitude, Enough, Turns, Daily Gratitude, Gratitude And Appreciation

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Inspirational Gratitude, Thanksgiving Day

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

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

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

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude, Gratefulness, Thank You Gratitude

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

... 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

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

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

- Alice Walker

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

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Gratitude, Being Blessed, Joy And 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

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

- Arthur Guiterman

topic: Thanksgiving, Song, Heart, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Praise And Thanksgiving

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

- James Allen

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

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

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

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

- Kevin James

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

topic: Thanksgiving, Good Day, Men, Day After Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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