Thanksgiving is right around the corner! What better way to get into the Thanksgiving spirit than to read some inspiring Thanksgiving quotes? (Read: Creative Thankful Turkey Craft.)
Let’s take a look at some of these well-known and lesser-known quotes. Does one of them resonate with you? If so let me know in the comments below!
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Inspiring Thanksgiving Quotes
Now, to get into the spirit of Thanksgiving, let’s take a look at 50 inspiring Thanksgiving quotes!
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Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oparah Winfrey
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Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Lionel Hampton
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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
William Arthur Ward
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David Thoreau
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Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
Amy Grant
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
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That’s one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football’s on!
Michael Strahan
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Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Richard Roeper
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We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.
Marcie
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The simple act of practicing gratitude, consistently, is your invitation to a new life. Accepting the invitation is now up to you.
Josie Robinson
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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others.
Etty Hillesum
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Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.
Germany Kent
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To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today.
Israelmore Ayivor
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In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day—or to celebrate each special day.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or the last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
Ann Voskamp
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Gratitude is a feedback loop that will show you where you are thriving.
Danielle LaPorte
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
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When I force myself to utter the awkward phrase, ‘I am grateful,’ I actually start to feel a bit more grateful…It’s basic cognitive behavioral therapy: Behave in a certain way, and your mind will eventually catch up with your actions.
A.J. Jacobs
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
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We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
John F. Kennedy
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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.
Maya Angelou
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Too often, we forget to thank the people who are closest to us. They are easy to take for granted, and we can expend all our patience and niceties on strangers and have only leftovers to give our family.
Kent Brantly
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Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
Robert Caspar Lintner
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Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.
Richelle E. Goodrich
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
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This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.
Maya Angelou
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Being in the habit of saying ‘Thank you,’ of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there—this is a good habit, regardless…make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.
Sarah Wendell
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Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.
Alexandra Katehakis
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Every time we decide to be grateful it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
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The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Every time we decide to be grateful it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar Wilde
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Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.
Joshua Kai
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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
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Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy
Jim Fargiano
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
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Appreciation can make a day—even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins
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It is one thing to be grateful. It’s another to give thanks. Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.
Tim Keller
46.
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Frank A. Clark
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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.
America Ferrera
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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg