Thanksgiving Quotes and Thanksgiving Sayings

Happy Thanksgiving day everyone! It is not yet late, send your Thanksgiving cards filled with memorable Thanksgiving quotes and sayings. Or you can also email your family and friends expressing your feelings of thanks. The day is to give thanks for life’s blessings, so make the most out of it.

Have a look at some quotes and sayings.

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

* If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

* Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop

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

* Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. ~Estonian proverb

* 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. ~E.P. Powell

* 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 ! ~Henry Ward Beecher

* Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown

* So once in every year we throng upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart. ~Arthur Guiterman

* Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing. ~Henry Jacobsen

* Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron

* If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. ~Gerald Good

* O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. ~William Shakespeare

* Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ~Cicero

* Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~William Faulkner

* To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. ~Albert Schweitzer

* 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. ~Melody Beattie