100 Best Thanksgiving Quotes – Happy Thanksgiving Sayings

“God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings”

Edwin Percy Whipple

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

W. Clement Stone

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

William Blake

“Thanksgiving Is A Time Of Togetherness And Gratitude.”

Nigel Hamilton

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

John F. Kennedy

“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of Action

W. J Cameron

“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”

E.P. Powell.

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

J.A. Shedd

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Maya Angelou

“You shouldn't just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time

Alcurtis Turner

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

Jay Leno

Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.

Catherine Pulsifer.

What if today we were just grateful for everything.

Charles Schultz.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family.

Marcus Samuelsson

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

The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It’s circular, and it leads to a happier life.

Steve Goodier

My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite, only a sense of existence.

Henry David Thoreau

A thought about Thanksgiving Day: Once, there was this day… this one day when… everyone realized they needed each other.

April Burns

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.

Rita Rudner

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

I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.

Charlie Brown

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

Charles Dickens

On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence.

William Jennings Bryan

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

John Taylor

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Randy Pausch

Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.

William Shakespeare

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.

Robert Caspar Lintner

Thankfulness is measured by the number of words. Gratitude is measured by the nature of our actions.

David O. Mckay

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.

 Ina Garten

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Johannes A. Gaertner.

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak

Phyllis Diller

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

Mike Connolly

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Amy Grant

Family gathers to share good noise and good food. Gratitude abounds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Ernest Hemingway

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives.

Mrs. Pascal

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of the wonderful inside.

Willard Scott

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

William Arthur Ward

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

Ann Voskamp

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Franz Grillparzer

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

Katharine McPhee

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.

Gerald Good

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn’t have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship, all perks of adulthood

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

W.T. Purkiser

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.

Sam Lefkowitz

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

 P. J. O’Rourke

Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.

Danielle Duckery

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde 

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

Thornton Wilder

If there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

Rick Riordan

Forever on Thanksgiving Day, the heart will find the pathway home.

Wilbur D. Nesbit 

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

African Proverbs

Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else's fairy tale.

Wale Ayeni

The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

James E. Faust

The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

Norman Vincent Peale

Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.

Amy Leigh Mercree

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

Howie Mandel

Thanksgiving – fall’s finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.

Carew Papritz

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

O. Henry

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

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

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.

Joyce Giraud

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. Someone needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself.

Mitch Hedberg

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

America has developed a pie tradition unequivocally and unapologetically at the sweet end of the scale, and at no time is this better demonstrated than at Thanksgiving.

Janet Clarkson

Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.

Ray Stannard Baker

Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we’re thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!

Debby Ryan

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 sort of in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

Ted Allen

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there.

John Hughes

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

Melody Beattie

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is a 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

In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day just to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings – for the food on their tables and the babies in their arms.

Cynthia Rylant

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 the light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Henry Ward Beecher

I always think it’s funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So, I’m never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else.

Sherman Alexie

Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks. Among all the challenges that we face as people with hearing loss, there are certainly brighter moments in every day – moments that deserve to be recorded in our Gratitude Journal.

Monique Hammond

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

Harry A. Ironside

About 94 percent of Americans prepare and serve turkey at home and most people stick to a traditional menu for the main meal: turkey with cranberry sauce, mashed white potatoes with giblet gravy, candied sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows, a cooked green vegetable dish, relishes, and a pumpkin pie with whipped cream for dessert.

Martin K. Gay

Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

J. Robert Moskin

I like football. I find it’s an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Craig Ferguson

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

Robert Brault

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

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

Once you start practicing being grateful and thankful for things, people, and events, you may notice that you start to attract more positive things, people, and events in your life.

Stephanie Conkle

Turkey for the girls and Turkey for the boys. My favorite kind of pants is corduroys. Gobble gobble goo and Gobble gobble gickel. I wish turkey only cost a nickel. Oh, I love turkey on Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Adam Sandler

Thanksgiving isn't just a day. It's a way we can live our lives everyday.

Katrina Mayer

It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.

Lorelai Gilmore

Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.

Rumi

If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Tony Snow

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

Nicole Hollander

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

Tom Swyers

The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.

Oprah

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.

Eric Samuel Timm