Thanksgiving is a perfect time to reflect on all our blessings.
Here are some of my favorite inspirational quotes written for this special holiday.
Phillips Brooks
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.
Charlie Brown: Linus, Lucy and Marcy
Thanksgiving is a very important holiday. Ours was the first country in the world to make a national holiday to give thanks….But Thanksgiving is more than eating…Those pilgrims were thankful for what had happened to them, and we should be thankful too. We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving.
Seneca
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Frederick Koenig
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.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Unknown
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was “thank you,” that would suffice.
Albert Barnes
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.
William Faulkner
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
W. T. Purkiser
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.
Robert Flatt
Thanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn’t learned to be content will not be thankful, for he lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.
Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
H. W. Westermeyer
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Frank A. Clark
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.
