Thanksgiving Thanks Quotes:

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

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

- William Faulkner

topic: Gratitude, Order, Quality, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

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

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

- Aesop

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

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

- Phillips Brooks

topic: Thanksgiving, Believe, Eye, Thanksgiving Day, Clear Eyes

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

- O. Henry

topic: Thanksgiving, One Day, Thanksgiving Day, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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

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

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.

- Conrad Gessner

topic: Thank You, Song, Heart, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Christian Thanksgiving

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

- George Carlin

topic: Thanksgiving, Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Christian Thanksgiving

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

- Wilson Mizner

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

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

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

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

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 is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

- Epictetus

topic: Positive, Happiness, Thank You, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

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

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

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Mean, Opportunity, Giving, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Learning Lessons

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

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

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

- James Allen

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

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Thanksgiving, Fun, Kids, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

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

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

- Warren W. Wiersbe

topic: Thanksgiving, Christian, Long, Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Christian

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Thanksgiving, Song, Sweet, Friends Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Card

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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Thanksgiving Day, Life Appreciation

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

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

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

... 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

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

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 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

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

- William Jennings Bryan

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

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

- Henry Clay

topic: Thankful, Grateful, Heart, Thankful Heart, Love And Appreciation

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Thanks, Form, Being Blessed, Social Good, Joy And 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

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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

- Seneca the Younger

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

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.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Thankful, Gratitude, Make Things Right, I Am Thankful

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

- Horace

topic: Gratitude, Common, Hungry, Inspirational Gratitude, Funny Thanksgiving Day

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

source: Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.195

topic: Thankful, Thanksgiving Day, Funny Happy Thanksgiving, Good Actions, Thanksgiving And Love

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

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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You, New Friendship, Life Love And Friendship

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