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Thanksgiving Gratitude Quotes

“Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.”

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

“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.”

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

“Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.”

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —”

“... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”

“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”

“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.”

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”

“There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.”

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

“Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.”

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

“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.”

“It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!”

“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.”

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”

“He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.”

“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends... Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

“So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.”

“I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.”

“Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”

“You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.”

“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.”

“You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.”

“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.”

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.”