Browsing Topic Best Thanksgiving Thankful Quotes

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.

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

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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

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

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

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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.

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.

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.

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

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.

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.

It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful ‘in general.’ It’s very strange. It’s a little like being married in general.

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

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.

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

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

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

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Thanksgiving. It’s like we didn’t even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?’

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

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.