Thanksgiving Wishes Quotes:

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

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

- Melody Beattie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

- Mike Connolly

topic: Turkeys, Doe, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Peaceful Coexistence, Christian Thanksgiving

The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Jobs, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Thanksgiving Wishes, Turkey Day

I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.

- Ellen Orleans

topic: Strong, Holiday, Funny Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Friends Thanksgiving

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Kitchen, Carving, 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

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

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

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

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Thanksgiving, Being Yourself, Fun, Grocery Stores, Pastrami

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

- Jay Leno

topic: Funny Thanksgiving, Too Much, Thanksgiving Card, Thanksgiving Jokes, Thanksgiving Thank You

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!

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Gratitude, Dark, Light, Thanksgiving Day, Thank You God

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

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Mother, House, Sorrow, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Funny Mothers 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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

- David Letterman

topic: Mom, Drinking, Funny Thanksgiving, Kitties, Thanksgiving Day

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Heart, Blessing, Thankfulness, Being Blessed, Spiritual Gratitude

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

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

- Grandpa Jones

topic: Thanksgiving, Pie, Yams, Thanksgiving Day, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

- Dylan Brody

topic: Wise, Native American, Funny Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Family Thanksgiving

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

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

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

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

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

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

- Epicurus

topic: Food, Looks, Drink, Dine In, Eating And Drinking

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 love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Los Angeles, Thanksgiving Day, Funny Thanksgiving Day

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

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