Thanksgiving Sayings On Being Grateful

by allinspiration.com

Gratitude is an important aspect of good mental and emotional health. Let these thanksgiving sayings and quotes bring out the meaning of being grateful and saying thank you.

“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.”
– A. J. McLean

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
– Aesop

“I’m thankful for every moment.”
– Al Green

“Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.”
– Albert Barnes

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
– Albert Pine

“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.”
– Alice W. Brotherton

“‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
– Alice Walker

“I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank

“Well, a lot of people don’t know this about me, but I’m actually shy around people I don’t know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn’t really talk onstage. I was like, ‘Thank you, I love you guys,’ or whatever. But now I’ve just kind of learned to work a crowd.”
– Avril Lavigne

“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
– Ayn Rand

“Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God, I’m still alive.’ But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.”
– Barbara Boxer

“What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ‘em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.”
– Barbra Streisand

“I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.”
– Ben Stein

“And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.” And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.”
– Benjamin Netanyahu

“As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.”
– Beth Ditto

“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”
– Bob Schieffer

“In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we’re hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Bob Wells

“On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.”
– Bobby Jindal

“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise… then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
– Brother David Steindl-Rast

“I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.”
– Carol Alt

“Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.”
– Charles E. Jefferson

“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

“One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.”
– Charles Kelley

“Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.”
– Charles Spurgeon

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

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

“My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it’s just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.”
– Cindy Margolis

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

“As soon as someone tells me: ‘You’re rather sexy,’ I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: ‘You were voted the world’s sexiest man,’ I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? ‘Thank you’ is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world’s sexiest man, anyway.”
– Daniel Craig

“It’s so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early – is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?”
– David Letterman

“I don’t want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.”
– Doug Coupland

“We will speed the day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing. Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
– e. e. cummings

“One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude.”
– E. J. Conrad

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