Thanksgiving Day Quotes And Sayings For A Day Of Appreciation

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“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

“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

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck

“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”
– Erma Bombeck

“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
– Estonian Proverb

“To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others.”
– Eugene Cloutier

“Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It’s the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.”
– Evan Davis

“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

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

“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

“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.”
– French Proverb

“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

“As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there’s always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk

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

“Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing… a grateful heart!”
– George Herbert

“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.”
– George Washington

“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
– Gerald Good

“The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts… nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”
– H.U. Westermayer

“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”
– H.U. Westermayer

“The craft Emmys are kind of the kids‘ table at Thanksgiving. You’re not really invited to the big dance. It’s still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.”
– Hank Azaria

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
– Harper Lee

“By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”
– Hebrews 13:15

“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

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
– Henry Clay

“Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing.”
– Henry Jacobsen

“Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above.”
– Henry Melville

“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

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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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