82 Happy Thanksgiving Quotes to Share with Family and Friends
Express your gratitude this holiday with a meaningful quote.
When sending Thanksgiving greetings or, perhaps, preparing a few words to share at the table about what you’re thankful for this year, sometimes words can elude you. What to do? Say it with a quote—and we’ve got you covered with the best Thanksgiving quotes out there.
From thoughts about gratitude to funny Thanksgiving quotes to sentiments about what it means to gather with family and friends, this collection brings together inspirational words from famous authors, poets, celebrities, chefs, and more. And they’re all short enough to write in a card or share in a Thanksgiving Instagram caption.
After all, this time of year can be a little hectic, whether you’re traveling, planning the Thanksgiving menu, or decorating the house. So when it comes to spreading Happy Thanksgiving wishes far and wide, make it easy on yourself with quotes (complete with images!) that perfectly express your appreciation for all your blessings.
If you’re not quite finding the right words here, you might also check out our collections of classic Thanksgiving poems, Thanksgiving Bible verses, and (on the humorous side), Thanksgiving jokes.
Now for our favorite Thanksgiving quotes, which, we hope, will soon become your favorites too.
Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
“We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.”
Amy Grant
“Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
Thomas Merton
“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.”
Lionel Hampton
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
Rumi
"Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life."
Maya Angelou
"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."
Will Arnett
"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."
Oprah Winfrey
"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.'"
Roy T. Bennett
"Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience."
Lindsey Bareham
“Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.”
Nora Ephron
“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.”
Rick Riordan
“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.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
"Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble."
Elie Wiesel
“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
Johannes A. Gaertner
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
Randy Pausch
"Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other."
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.”
Hausa Proverb
"Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot."
Robert Caspar Lintner
"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day."
Gerald Good
"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."
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