84 Happy Thanksgiving Quotes
A collection of gratitude-filled Happy Thanksgiving quotes to share with loved ones.
Updated October 10, 2025, by Catherine Pulsifer
A collection of short Happy Thanksgiving quotes for friends and family full of gratitude to remind everyone to count their blessings. A time to stop our busy lives and remind ourselves of all that we are grateful for. A holiday that is celebrated with family and friends and one in which gratitude is shown. We hope these quotations add to a Happy Thanksgiving day for you and yours! And to add a bit more you may want to read and share our Thanksgiving poems.
We ought to make the moments notes of happy, glad Thanksgiving; the hours and days a silent phrase of music we are living.
Often I'll speak my thanksgiving aloud. Hearing the long list of good gifts
God has given me is usually just what I need to restore my joy.
Every day of our years should be a thanksgiving day.
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and
not giving it.
Be thankful for all that you have, not just at Thanksgiving, but all the year through.
While Thanksgiving has its foundation on Plymouth Rock, Christmas rests upon the Rock of Ages.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
If only thanksgiving was every month, a feast I would enjoy but then I got to thinking my diet it would destroy.
In all things we need to be thankful no matter where we are or where
we are at in life, there is much to be thankful for as long as we still have
breath.
November, the month when gratitude blooms, Thanksgiving approaches, with joyful tunes.
Thanksgiving's feast brings memories so grand, nostalgia fills the air as love expands.
Family gathered by the fireside, Thanksgiving feast, a joyful endeavor.
Take some time today to remember everything you are thankful for.
Have we taken the time to thank the Lord for all the blessings he has given us.
Thanksgiving is a state of mind, it isn't a feast or a day; it's the joy you feel within your heart for blessings God sends your way.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness
continues through all generations.
From far and wide, our family convenes, on this Thanksgiving day, a tender scene. With hearts bowed low, we offer thanks divine, for this beloved gift of kinship entwined.
Thanksgiving, a sacred time of reflection, when we gather in humble introspection. Thank God for the harvest He graciously bestows.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough,
and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
May each day be filled with thanksgiving thanking God above for life and for living and for surrounding you with His love.
Thanksgiving calls forth this noble gourd....slice, roast, and savor its sweet, golden treat, pumpkin's nourishment makes our feast complete.
We stop and give thanks to God above for sending His Son and His Love.
Be thankful for life, and all that it holds. The goods and the bads.
We stop and give thanks to God above for sending His Son and His Love.
Dear Lord, despite its pain and strife, we thank Thee for our richer life.
The countdown begins, the wait won't last, Halloween before Thanksgiving is a spooky blast!
Learn the lesson of thanksgiving. It is due to God, it is due to ourselves. Thanksgiving for the past makes us trustful in the present and hopeful for the future. What He has done is the pledge of what He will do.
November, the month that carries the essence of thankfulness in its crisp air. It invites us to express gratitude for life's abundance and cherish the warmth of loved ones around the Thanksgiving table.
Whether you feel blessed by your family, your friends or just by having a roof over your head and food in your stomach remind yourself of these things.
We could all receive so much more if we would express more gratitude.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.
And on the first Thanksgiving Day I would have met with friends to pray
And thank the Lord for all his care in keeping us together there.
And thank the Lord for all his care in keeping us together there.
Give thanks each morn for the sturdy boys, give thanks for the fairy girls; with a dower of wealth like this at home, would you rifle the earth for pearls?
For health and homes and country and laughter, sweet and gay
For all of these - and love and faith - we thank thee, God, today!
For all of these - and love and faith - we thank thee, God, today!
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite time of the year. Not only do I love
the season, but I love the holiday spirit that fills people and the change
of pace that takes place during this season.
Being grateful puts you in a positive frame of mind.
So, when the days of toil are o'er
And harvest days are here. Thanksgiving comes with bounteous store
The ideal would be to set one day a year aside to do all our complaining
and gripping, and leave the rest for thanksgiving.
Lots and lots of jolly fun, games to play and races run, all as happy as can be - for this happiness you can see makes Thanksgiving.
One day is there of the series termed Thanksgiving day, celebrated part at table, part in memory.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
Every blessing of my life God has handed down to me.
Gratitude is from the same root word as "grace" -
Thanksgiving is from the same root word as "think,"
so that to think to to thank.
Look up, dear hearts, and what the days bring, Bless God for it all - yes- everything! "
Find harvests in our hearts that shine more fair than wheat fields can design.
We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may
be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions.
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
This is my wish for you: comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes...patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other
virtues.
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it
comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be
careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
You say, "If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied." You make
a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be
satisfied if it were doubled.
This is the day the Lord hath made, in praise lift up your voice.
In shining robes of joy arrayed, be glad, give thanks, rejoice.
In shining robes of joy arrayed, be glad, give thanks, rejoice.
If only we would lift our hands and gratefully receive - the blessings He bestows on us if we but watch and pray - and look beyond the clouds to see the glory of each day.
Yes sir, this Thanksgiving day I am going to drop down on my knees and thank God—for permitting me to live in His wonderful world.
....when we stop and take the time to focus on what we already have and all the ways God has already blessed us, it gives us a new perspective.
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.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
For all that the harvest can show, most thankful we’ll be, dear Father, to Thee, whose power and love made them grow.
He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true
Thanksgiving comes from the heart.
If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that.
But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without
remembering that?
Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today.
Be thankful for the hard times; they can only make you stronger.
The privative blessings - the blessings of immunity, safeguard,
liberty, and integrity - which we enjoy deserve the thanksgiving
of a whole life.
And for this day, and for this hour, we bring our glad thanksgiving to Thee, the ever gracious Lord, to Thee, the ever-living.
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in
man. Soberly and with dear eyes, believe in your own time and place.
There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place
to live in.
