Browsing Topic Best Thanksgiving 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.

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.

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

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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

Reflect upon your present blessings.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

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.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

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

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

‘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.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

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. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don’t forget indigestion. I wasn’t different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

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

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.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

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

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

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

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

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

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.

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

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.

Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God’s peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration.