Thanksgiving Quotes

Welcome to my thanksgiving quotes. A life filled with thanksgiving is a life well spent. I have noticed that when I feel thankful I am at peace and happy with the world life is good.

• THANKSGIVING QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
  John Fitzgerald Kennedy


• 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.
  Charles Haddon Spurgeon


• If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
  Meister Eckhart


• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
  Cicero


• Our rural ancestors, with little blest,Patient of labour when the end was rest,Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
  Alexander Pope


• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
  Thornton Wilder


• Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.
  Author Unknown


• To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
  Johannes A. Gaertner


• 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.
  E.P. Powell


• Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
  Theodore Roosevelt


• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
  W. T. Purkiser


• 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.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
  Seneca


• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
  Cynthia Ozick





• Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
  Edward Sandford Martin


• Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.
  J. Robert Moskin


• He who thanks but with the lipsThanks but in part;The full, the true ThanksgivingComes from the heart.
  J.A. Shedd


• Forever on Thanksgiving DayThe heart will find the pathway home.
  Wilbur D. Nesbit


• Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
  Robert Caspar Lintner


• Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
  Estonian Proverb


• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
  Frederick Keonig


• If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence.
  G.A. Johnston Ross


• 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.
  Sir John Templeton


• We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
  Author Unknown


• 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


• Gratitude ... goes beyond the "mine" and "thine" and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
  Henri J. M. Nouwen

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