85 Best Thanksgiving Quotes to Share at Your Table

We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions.

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.

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

For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch you must first invent the universe.

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

I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.

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

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

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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Recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy.

When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows but because of them...the word for that is healing.

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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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

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

What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.

Gratitude opens the door, the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

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

An attitude of gratitude goes a long way when it comes to physical and emotional healing.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Even in the trials of life, if we have eyes to see them, we can find good things everywhere we look.

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.

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.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that’s good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

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

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

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

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

Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.

The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don’t think so.

Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

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

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

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

Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

When you love what you have, you have everything you need.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

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.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

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

We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

An attitude of gratitude brings great things.

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

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

What if, today, we were grateful for everything?

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

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

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

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.

Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.

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.

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

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.

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it’s because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

As a child, I didn’t know what I didn’t have. I’m thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what’s important.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

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

Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little emotional scarring.

Well, that was absurd, let's eat dead bird!