We don’t typically think of prayer as a way to show a person that we appreciate them, but here’s the thing: prayer changes everything, especially our relationships. Prayer is our connection to the God who is love, the God who shows us what it means to love our spouse unconditionally. When you stay in tune with Him and bring to mind all the reasons you’re grateful God blessed you with your spouse, that heart of thanks will naturally guide how you interact with your partner. 

Note: it’s important to be specific here. Don’t simply breeze through a “Thanks for my spouse, God,” prayer. Thank God that he brought this person to you when you doubted you would ever find someone, when you were betrayed by another, or when you felt as though no one saw you for who you truly were. Thank God for their patience, hard work, loving nature, respect for your family, love of your dreams, etc. When you speak what you’re grateful for, specifically to God, it transforms your heart. 

Though your spouse might not hear this thank you prayer, they will feel it in the way you allow your conversations with God to soften your heart toward them. 

Related Resource: 3 Simple Ways to Feed Your Spouse More Praise

How often do you intentionally stop to praise your spouse? To recognize and affirm their character or actions? Many of us probably cringe at answering these questions because we know we could do better! If you struggle to feed your spouse praise regularly, this episode is for you. Listen in as we share some practical steps we all can take to criticize less and affirm and build up our spouse more. If this episode helps your marriage, be sure to subscribe to Team Us on Apple or Spotify so you never miss an episode.

“What are you doing for Thanksgiving?”

I have been asking myself this question since late summer as I sort through my work calendar, restaurant openings, and vacation schedules. My family asks too, and my friends remind me of their standing invites. I’m still not quite sure as I write this letter.

I have been traveling the last few Thanksgivings—usually for work—and have had to send kind wishes through group chats and swoon over turkey and dressing and dishes of macaroni and cheese on FaceTime. Figuring out what I’m going to do every year has challenged what was always tradition: heading home for Thanksgiving. But one year I caught up with my dear friend over a long, lazy lunch at one of the world’s finest restaurants. Another year I was on a plane somewhere. Another year, at a neighbor’s house, though it did feel odd to trade my hostess apron for a guest’s chair.

Although I have been too busy to host Thanksgiving in recent years, it’s still my favorite holiday. I love being in the kitchen with the smells of celery and sage, cinnamon and clove, and rolling out dough for yeast rolls between my fingers. I can quickly end a canned versus fresh cranberry sauce debate with Bon Appétit’s gorgeous Cranberry-Lime Tart from the archives.

Over the past few decades, Thanksgiving has become more about peace, grace, and friendship, where we celebrate our chosen people and our family ties. Even if I’m not at home, I still feel the connection and intimacy I’m thankful for. We’ve also moved away from culinary conventions with access to spices and produce from all over the world, allowing us to make Thanksgiving dinner whatever we want.

Tradition, after all, is also something we create.

A few years ago I invited some friends of a friend to Thanksgiving dinner and asked them to bring side dishes they loved. As immigrants mostly from Europe and South America, they didn’t believe this American holiday was “for them,” or that their dishes would be appropriate. But their soups, ceviches, and paellas sat beautifully alongside my herb-roasted turkey and potatoes dauphinoise, making them more connected to this US tradition. Being part of a welcoming, inclusive environment is what I want to do every Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Hot Takes and Tips

CALL IT SIDESGIVING

This is really what we want anyway: lots of sides, variations of ones we know, and ones we didn’t know we needed, like the spicy squash. Tip: Stay on auntie’s good side. Rather than replace a beloved family recipe, add a new side to try.

CHOOSE A SMALL TURKEY

Tackling your first turkey? I recommend Shilpa Uskokovic’s choice of a small bird (12 to 14 pounds). Slightly larger than a duck or chicken, it cooks faster and feels familiar. Hot take: The skin does not have to be crispy. You’ve got gravy.

CAKE IS THE NEW PIE

I’m a certifiable pie person. But if you want to impress guests and be on trend with the cake parties we saw all year, make one, or all, of the cakes. Hot take: The chocolate-pumpkin cake is the stronger case for canned pumpkin than pie.

It’s Thanksgiving (or it’s coming soon, depending on when you’re reading this).

A time of the year for families to come together. To laugh, share memories and food and let gratitude and love shine in the darkness of November.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most meaningful, funny and loving Thanksgiving quotes for family.

I hope you’ll find something here to help you truly express how you feel at the dinner table, in a text or on a card or maybe via social media posts on Instagram.

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Help You Express Your Love

“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.”
– Donna Hedges

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
– Mother Teresa

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”
– Haniel Long

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt

“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
– from the movie Lilo & Stitch

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
– Deb Caletti

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created, strengthened and maintained.”
– Winston Churchill

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”
– Mitch Albom

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
– Peter Buffett

“What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.”
– Robert Brault

“In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
– Jane Howard

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu

“I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.”
– Marcus Samuelsson

“Home is people. Not a place.”
– Robin Hobb

Short Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings for Family

“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.”
– Amy Collette

“The most thankful person is the most fully human.”
– John Henry Jowett

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood

“Gratitude is the best attitude.”
– Unknown

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust

“Reflect upon your present blessings.”
– Charles Dickens

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson

“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
– Todd Stocker

“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.”
– Native American Proverb

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

“Kindness is always fashionable.”
– Amelia Barr

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”
– Alice Walker

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
– James E. Faust

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
– Voltaire

Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Lighten the Mood

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
– Craig Ferguson

“It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little emotional scarring.”
– Timothy Burke

“Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.”
– Johnny Carson

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“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

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.”
– Melanie White

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.”
– Rita Rudner

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“The Thanksgiving tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?’”
– Jim Gaffigan

“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
– Gloria Fallon

“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Keep your friends close, but your relatives at a distance during Thanksgiving dinner.”
– David Letterman

“Family gathering: A time when relatives you haven’t seen all year magically appear just in time to critique your life choices.”
– Jen Lancaster

“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
– Wayne Huizenga

“So what do we do? We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.”
– Heather Brewer

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

Meaningful Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Parents

“My mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”
– Michael Jordan

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano

“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.”
– Melody Beattie

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
– Maya Angelou

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
– Neal A. Maxwell

“My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
– Liza Minnelli

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
– Dalai Lama

“Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit

“Great fathers don’t find fault. Great fathers find solutions.”
– Reed Markham

“Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
– Meister Eckhart

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”
– Dalai Lama

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Kids

“What if today, we were just grateful for everything?”
– Charlie Brown

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
– A.A. Milne

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

“There is always something to be thankful for.”
– Charles Dickens

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”
– Charlie Brown

“Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.”
– Willard Scott

“When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.”
– Roy Bennett

“Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.”
– Antonia Montoya

“It’s funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
– Germany Kent

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

Want more positive inspiration for your Thanksgiving? Then have a look at these short Thanksgiving quotes, the Thanksgiving quotes for gratitude at work here and also this one with funny Thanksgiving quotes for a less stressful holiday.

When we think about Thanksgiving we often think about family and close friends.

But another important part is expressing gratitude at work to your coworkers or employees (or maybe to your boss if you got a good one).

So in today’s post I’d like to help you out with that and with finding the right words. This is 101 of the most positive, heartfelt and funny Thanksgiving quotes for work.

Use one or a couple of them in a card for your favorite coworker or your team, in an email going out to your employees or maybe at a Thanksgiving lunch at work.

I hope you’ll find something here to help you express how grateful you are for the things people in your workplace have said and done throughout the year.

Thanksgiving Quotes to Express Your Gratitude for Your Coworkers

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect towards others.”
– Dalai Lama

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it all into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

“When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.”
– Martha Beck

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
– Max de Pree

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
– Voltaire

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you.”
– Ralph Marston

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
– Elie Wiesel

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
– Helen Keller

“Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
– Dalai Lama

“To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.”
– John Bytheway

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
– William Jones

Short Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings for Work

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
– Doris Day

“Let all your thinks be thanks.”
– W.H. Auden

“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.”
– James Allen

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
– Meister Eckhart

“Silent gratitude isn’t much to anyone.”
– Gertrude Stein

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth

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

“Contentment is the greatest treasure.”
– Lao Tzu

“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
– Brené Brown

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Gratitude is the best attitude.”
– Unknown

“Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.”
– Jefferson Bethke

“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
– Richie Norton

“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“Everything is a gift.”
– Osho

“Through the eyes of Gratitude, everything is a miracle.”
– Mary Davis

“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
– Rumi

Heartfelt Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Employees

“A little ‘thank you’ that you will say to someone for a ‘little favour’ shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen ‘greater favours’.”
– Israelmore Ayivor

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
– William Faulkner

“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”
– Vietnamese Proverb

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”
– Hannah Whitall Smith

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”
– William Arthur Ward

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

“From young to old, there are two words that carry a person forth in grace and honor; please and thank you.”
– Byron Pulsifer

“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray

“Always have an attitude of gratitude.”
– Sterling K. Brown

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“Gratitude bestows reverence…changing forever how we experience life and the world.”
– John Milton

Funny Thanksgiving Quotes on Work, the Holidays and All That Food

“I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
– Mark Twain

“The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?”
– Nora Ephron

“God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.”
– Ethel Watts Mumford

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
– Alphonse Karr

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

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

“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”
– Charlie Brown

“Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

“Thanksgiving: when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook.”
– Melanie White

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

Positive and Thoughtful Thanksgiving Quotes for the Workplace

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you’re humble.”
– Andra Day

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

“Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
– Charles Dickens

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
– Melody Beattie

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

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.”
– Rumi

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

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.”
– Joyce Giraud

“Change your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”
– Tony Robbins

“None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.”
– Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

“I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.”
– Jim Valvano

“There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
– A.A. Milne

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.”
– Charlotte Brontë

Want more uplifting inspiration? Then check out these short Thanksgiving quotes, the funny quotes and sayings about Thanksgiving here and also this one with inspirational and positive Thanksgiving quotes.

Thanksgiving is almost here.

A time to spend with loved ones. To eat delicious food, relax and have fun together.

And to take some time to reflect on what you can be grateful for (both small and bigger things in life).

So I thought this would be a good time to share 100 of the most inspirational, grateful and funny short Thanksgiving quotes.

Use them in a text or a group chat with friends. For your social media like Instagram or in your home on a letter board. Or in real life sometime during your Thanksgiving holiday.

Short and Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
– Melody Beattie

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood

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

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

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”
– Dalai Lama

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation.”
– Dalai Lama

“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
– James E. Faust

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Gratitude at Work

“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
– Voltaire

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden

“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
– Tony Robbins

“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”
– Rhonda Byrne

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”
– Amy Collette

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson

“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
– Todd Stocker

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

Short and Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Less Holiday Stress

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
– Rick Riordan

“Cooking tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Keep your friends close, but your relatives at a distance during Thanksgiving dinner.”
– David Letterman

“The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.”
– John Walters

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.”
– Damien Fahey

“It’s not the minutes spent at the Thanksgiving table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.”
– Unknown

“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.”
– Melanie White

“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
– Gloria Fallon

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields

“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
– Wayne Huizenga

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Express Your Gratitude

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
– Deb Caletti

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou

“What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.”
– Robert Brault

“Home is people. Not a place.”
– Robin Hobb

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family.”
– Haniel Long

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love.”
– Mitch Albom

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
– Peter Buffett

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
– Jane Howard

“Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created.”
– Winston Churchill

“The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?”
– Nora Ephron

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings.”
– Joyce Giraud

“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.”
– Jackie Windspear

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Beloved Friends

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
– Maria Shriver

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house on Thanksgiving and doesn’t judge you for eating pie straight from the tin.”
– Jim Harper

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
– Danielle Duckery

“To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.”
– John Bytheway

“Friendship is the wine of life.”
– Edward Young

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
– Thomas Fuller

“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”
– Isabel Allende

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
– William Shakespeare

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good friends are like pumpkin pie – sweet and always there when you need them.”
– Sandra Shea

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
– Maya Angelou

“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake

“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree

“What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food.”
– Daniel Humm

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”
– Alice Walker

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