70 Best Thanksgiving Quotes to Share With Your Loved Ones on Turkey Day

"There is always, always something to be thankful for."

Country Living Staff  Nov 25, 2019

Of course, your Thanksgiving menu is important, but the holiday is so much more than just piling our plates with mashed potatoes. Thanksgiving Day is also a time to show your gratitude for your friends, family, and all that you have in life.

These best Thanksgiving quotes will remind everyone of the reason for the fall season! This list is full of thoughtful words that would make for a great holiday toast or even as a nice Thanksgiving Instagram caption.

The day can be quite hectic, especially if you're hosting this year's festivities—so make sure you read these Thanksgiving quotes for friends and family before November 28, and then save them to read aloud to your guests on Thanksgiving Day.

Or when your day starts to get stressful (and you realize just how many stores are closed on Thanksgiving just as soon as you run out of pumpkin pie ingredients!), just take a moment to scroll through this roundup. We especially love the thankful quote: "Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life.

Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have," which was said by Catherine Pulsifer. It reminds us to be mindful and thankful of all we do have.

We also love these words by Daniel Humm: "What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from." That quote truly encompasses how special the holiday is.

Nora Ephro   “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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer   "Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble."

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.

J.A. Shedd   "He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart."

Catherine Pulsifer   "Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have."

Margaret Cousins   "Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

 Franz Grillparzer   "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it."

Daniel Humm   "What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from."

Unknown   "There is always, always something to be thankful for."

Anne Frank   "No one has ever become poor by giving."

Joyce Giraud   "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are."

Yogi Bhajan   "An attitude of gratitude brings great things."

John F. Kennedy   "We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."

Charles Dickens   "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Maya Angelou   "Be present in all things and thankful for all."

Amy Leigh Mercree   “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”

Wilbur D. Nesbit   “Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”

Norman Vincent Peale   “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”

Willie Nelson    “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

James E. Faust    “The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”

Maya Angelou   “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

Charlie Brown   “What if today, we were just grateful for everything?”

W. Clement Stone   “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”

Bruce Wilkinson   “A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”

David Steindl-Rast   “It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

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