Express How Thankful You Are With These Meaningful Quotes
Thanksgiving is officially here, and it is time to show gratitude to your friends, family, and coworkers. Sometimes, putting those feelings into words is a challenge and might have you searching "What's a good Thanksgiving quote?" That's where our list of the best thankful quotes comes in, to help recenter you on gratitude. Bring one out when it's time to share what you're thankful for on Thanksgiving Day, or write a special Thanksgiving greeting to a loved one who lives far way.
In fact, making time to be thankful can change your outlook on life. Science says so! Experts report that expressing gratitude can even lower your blood pressure and keep you from getting sick in addition to helping your relationships. For those reasons alone, it's sure worth making time to focus on giving thanks.
To help cultivate an attitude of gratitude, read through this set of quotes. They are sure to inspire you to be thankful and transform the way you see the world and your interactions with people in your life. You might want to also reflect on appreciating life's simple pleasures while you are at it, and with all those inspirational quotes in mind, you will likely find yourself journaling out your thoughts, writing notes for friends to say thank you, or deciding on just the right Thanksgiving blessing to share around the table.
Reba McEntire
"I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy, and I am loved."
Meister Eckhart
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
Alphonse Karr
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."
James Allen
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
LL Cool J
“I am what I am, I’m doing very well in my life, and I’m thankful to God for that.”
Bethany Hamilton
“Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are.”
Frank A. Clark
“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.”
Cicero
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
Anonymous
“I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.”
Anonymous
“It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.”
Israelmore Ayivor
“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’. Learn to say ‘thank you’ and why not?”
Cecelia Ahern
“For the yesterdays and today’s, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for – Thank you.”
William Faulkner
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
Charlotte Brontë
“For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.”
Elie Wiesel
“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.”
William Shakespeare
“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
Jefferson Bethke
“Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.”
Gerald Good
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
Stephen King
“Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.”
Charles Dickens
“Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Maya Angelou
“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”
John F. Kennedy
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
Douglas Wood
“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
Margaret Mitchell
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.”
Willie Nelson
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
Shauna Niequist
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
William Wordsworth
“Rest and be thankful.”
Dr. Seuss
“You ought to be thankful a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not!”
L.M. Montgomery
“…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”
Nick Vujicic
“I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.”
Germany Kent
“It’s a 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.”
Hellen Keller
“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
Barbara Kingsolver
“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”
Alice Walker
“‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
Dalai Lama
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect towards others.”
Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
W.H. Auden
“Let all your thinks be thanks.”
Tecumseh
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”
Chuck Berry
“I’m thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.”
Joyce Meyer
“There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
Oprah Winfrey
“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.”
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