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
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. — Shel Silverstein
Thanksgiving is the glue that helps to firmly attach your blessings to you. Without it, your blessings may be lost. — Enoch Adeboye
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
This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven) — Dean Hughes
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. — Robert Breault
There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way. — Jim Rohn
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. — Victor Hugo
Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?! — Redd Foxx
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
Short Happy Thanksgiving Quotes
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. — W. T. Purkiser
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. — O. Henry
He enjoys much who is thankful for little. — Thomas Secker
Another day to shine your light and give thanks for all your blessings! — Katrina Mayer
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. — Henry Allen Ironside
There is so much to be thankful for, just look around. — Katrina Mayer
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reflect upon your present blessings — Charles Dickens
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. — William Blake
What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!! — Dusty Rhodes
Happy Thanksgiving Image Quotes
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Inspirational Happy Thanksgiving Quotes
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. — Margaret Cousins
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. — Friedrich Koenig
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! — William Shakespeare
Never regret anything that made you smile.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. — W. T. Purkiser
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
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings. — William Arthur Ward
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. — O. Henry
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
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happy Thanksgiving Love Quotes
The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become. — Ezra Taft Benson
I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. — Charles Spurgeon
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
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
Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones! — Wayne Dyer
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. — William Faulkner
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn. — Denis Waitley
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
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. — Edwin Percy Whipple
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
Happy Thanksgiving Wishes Quotes
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
You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out. — Jay Leno
Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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
Good Thanksgiving Quotes
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. — Eckhart Tolle
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. — Abraham Maslow
Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness. — Jack W. Hayford
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good. — Brian Andreas
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
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer
I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly. — Henri Nouwen
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor. — Samuel Adams
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us. — Theodore Roosevelt
Thanksgiving Quotes
Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends. — Steven Furtick
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus
May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace. — Ann Voskamp
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget--lest we forget! — Rudyard Kipling
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting. — Joseph Fort Newton
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. — Neal A. Maxwell
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round. — Cindy Margolis
Thanksgiving Thanks Quotes
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. — Doris Day
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. — Cynthia Ozick
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness. — Charles Spurgeon
The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration. — Ole Hallesby
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart! — George Herbert
First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what’s going on in the world. — Vivica Fox
Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us. — Albert Schweitzer
Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope. — Ralph Marston
Thankful Thanksgiving Quotes
The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress. — Francis Frangipane
For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song. — Helen Keller
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. — Ralph Blum
The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise. — Richard Sibbes
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. — Tecumseh
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little — Buddha
How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. — John Templeton
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. — Robert Breault
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. — Henry Ward Beecher
I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way! — Louise Hay
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. — Alistair Cooke
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
All that we behold is full of blessings. — William Wordsworth
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
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
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
Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England". — Jay Leno
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. — Mike Connolly
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
Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate. — Bo Burnham
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats. — Bo Burnham
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. — Irving Berlin
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. — John Henry Jowett
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. — Rita Rudner
Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving. — Elizabeth von Arnim
If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! — Ellen DeGeneres
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
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