Browsing Topic Best Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes

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.

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

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

Reflect upon your present blessings.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.

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

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

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.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

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.

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?

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

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

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of 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.

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.

‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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.

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.

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.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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!

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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!

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

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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

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.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.