Thanksgiving is a special holiday celebrated mainly in the United States and Canada. It started as a harvest festival to give thanks for the blessings of the past year. Families and friends come together to share a meal, usually including turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie.
It’s a time to reflect on what we are thankful for and appreciate the people and moments that make our lives meaningful. Here are 100+ heartfelt Thanksgiving quotes to inspire gratitude and help you embrace the spirit of the holiday.
- “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” — Aesop
- “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” — Nigel Hamilton
- “It’s not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.” — W.T. Purkiser
- “Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” — W.J. Cameron
- “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward
- “Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to share, a time to reflect on the blessings we have.” — Unknown
- “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy
- “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” — William Blake
- “Thanksgiving is a season of gratitude, a time to reflect on what matters most.” — Unknown
- “Let our hearts be full of both thanks and giving.” — Unknown
- “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” — Unknown
- “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.” — Cicero
- “In everything, give thanks.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:18
- “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” — Amy Leigh Mercree
Short Thanksgiving Quotes
- “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
- “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” — Robert Caspar Lintner
- “Thanksgiving is best when shared with loved ones.”
- “Gratitude makes everything better.”
- “Grateful for every little thing.”
- “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “Thanksgiving: food, family, and fond memories.”
- “What if, today, we were grateful for everything?” — Charlie Brown
- “In all things, give thanks.”
- “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” — Gertrude Stein
- “There’s always something to be thankful for.”
- “‘Enough’ is a feast.” — Buddhist proverb
- “Gather, give thanks, and enjoy the moment.”
- “Thanksgiving: the joy of togetherness.”
- “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — William Wordsworth
- “Thankful today and always.”
- “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” — Aesop
- “Count your blessings. Focus on what you’ve got. Spread the positive vibes.” — Jyoti Patel
- “Thanksgiving: a feast for the soul.”
- “Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden
- “Eat, drink, and be thankful.”
- “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” — Maya Angelou
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller
- “Blessed beyond measure this Thanksgiving.”
- “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” — William Blake
Funny Thanksgiving Quotes
- “Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.” — Erma Bombeck
- “Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.” — Michael Dresser
- “‘So what do we do?’ We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.” — Heather Brewer
- “I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.” — Robert Brault
- “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” — Marcus Samuelsson
- “Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.” — Stephen Colbert
- “You know that just before the first Thanksgiving there was one wise old Native American woman saying, ‘Don’t feed them. If you feed them, they’ll never leave.’” — Dylan Brody
- “For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.” — Andy Borowitz
- “Thanksgiving – fall’s finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.” — Carew Papritz
- “We’re having something different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we’re having a swan. You get more stuffing.” — George Carlin
- “Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” — Richard Roeper
- “Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics.” — Stephen Colbert
- “I celebrated Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.” — Jon Stewart
- “I got to go home for Thanksgiving and sit at the adults’ table. That’s ’cause, you know, somebody had to die for me to move up a plate.” — Andre Kelley
- “A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear them consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.” — Jimmy Fallon
- “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.” — Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
- “What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” — Erma Bombeck
- “Thanksgiving offers us an annual pause from the pace of life, to return to places we do not often visit and gather with people we do not often see.” — Jay Milbrandt
- “It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there.” — John Hughes
- “I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.” — Kumail Nanjiani
- “My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.” — Katharine McPhee
- “But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!” — Margaret Junkin Preston
- “Hope my relatives are getting along with the professional line sitter I hired to hold my place at the front of the Thanksgiving food line.” — John Lyon
- “Thanksgiving—when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook.” — Melanie White
- “Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.” — Augusten Burroughs
- “When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty, my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.” — Sam Lefkowitz
- “I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.” — Damien Fahey
- “Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they see only once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” — Johnny Carson
- “There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.” — O. Henry
- “Archeologists 10,000 years from now will believe this was a sacred feast where gravy boats were worshipped.” — Just Bill
Thanksgiving Quotes For Family
- “Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
- “Thanksgiving is the time to appreciate the bond that keeps us connected as family, no matter the distance.”
- “No matter where life takes us, the warmth of family at Thanksgiving always brings us home.”
- “We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “On this Thanksgiving, I count my family as my greatest blessing, today and every day.”
- “I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Family is the heart of Thanksgiving, and I’m grateful for each and every one of you.”
- “Gratitude grows stronger when shared with family, and Thanksgiving is our chance to celebrate that together.”
- “The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” — Marcus Samuelsson
- “Gathered together, we find the true meaning of Thanksgiving in the love we share as a family.”
- “Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.” — Alexandra Katehakis
- “Thankful today and always for the joy, love, and laughter that family brings into my life.”
- “Forever on Thanksgiving day the heart will find the pathway home.” — Wilbur D. Nesbit
- “The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” – Jon Zabat-Zinn
Funny Thanksgiving Quotes About Family
- “Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.” — Eric Samuel Timm
- “Hope my relatives are getting along with the professional line sitter I hired to hold my place at the front of the Thanksgiving food line.” — John Lyon
- “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” — Marcus Samuelsson
- “Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.” — Melanie White
- “I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.” — Damien Fahey
- “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde
- “I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.” — Robert Brault
- “For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.” — Andy Borowitz
- “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
- “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” — Erma Bombeck
- “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” — Jerry Seinfeld
- “Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving.” — Mike Connolly
Short Thanksgiving Sayings
- Grateful hearts are the happiest.
- Give thanks and gather.
- Gratitude changes everything.
- Blessed beyond measure.
- Eat, drink, and give thanks.
- Count your blessings, big and small.
- Family, food, and gratitude.
- Thankful today and always.
- In all things, give thanks.
- Savor the moments, share the gratitude.
- Gather with grateful hearts.
- Gratitude makes every meal a feast.
- There’s always something to be thankful for.
- Together is the best place to be.
- Thankful hearts, full plates.
- Thanksgiving is best when shared.
- Give thanks for the little things.
- Grateful, blessed, and thankful.
- Eat pie, be kind, give thanks.
- Thankfulness is the recipe for joy.
Thanksgiving Sayings
- Gratitude turns any meal into a feast.
- Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on our blessings.
- Where there is family, there is much to be thankful for.
- A thankful heart brings peace and joy.
- Thanksgiving reminds us to cherish life’s simple gifts.
- Grateful hearts make for the best company.
- Thanksgiving: a celebration of love, food, and family.
- Gather, give thanks, and share the joy.
- Gratitude makes what we have enough.
- Thanksgiving is not just a day; it’s a way of living.
- Give thanks for family, friends, and the feast.
- A thankful heart is a magnet for blessings.
- Thanksgiving: when gratitude and togetherness meet.
- The best things in life are moments shared with loved ones.
- Gratitude is the greatest gift we can give and receive.
Conclusion
These quotes can inspire you to embrace gratitude not only during Thanksgiving but throughout the entire year. Remember to take a moment to appreciate the people and experiences that bring joy to your life. Happy Thanksgiving!
