Thanksgiving Quotes

"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy."

David Steindl-Rast

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

Kahlil Gibran

"Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater."

Thomas à Kempis

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

Seneca

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

William Faulkner

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

Thornton Wilder

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

G. K. Chesterton

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

Eckhart Tolle

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

Henry Ward Beecher

"I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks."

"Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing."

"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude."

Brené Brown

"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer."

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Thankfulness is the soil in which joy thrives."

Berthold Auerbach

"The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time."

Douglas Wood

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality."

Alfred Painter

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

Jacques Maritain

"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot."

Alice Walker

"Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life."

Kalidasa

"None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude."

Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

"Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life."

Jack Canfield

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling."

Henry Van Dyke

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."