There’s something extra-special about the holidays, especially around Thanksgiving. Celebration is emphasized during these busy weeks, which leads to countless coffee dates finally being nailed down, “Friendsgiving” events on the books, and CIA-level strategic planning ahead of time to figure out how to drop by 12 different family members’ houses in just one or two days. The holidays, even with all of their chaos, keep us grounded in tradition and relationships. It’s the time of year to remember what really counts, and that’s why we’re so happy to share the greatest 150 Thanksgiving quotes that will make you feel #blessed!

With shifting seasons come changing perspectives as well, and it’s natural to feel self-reflective throughout the last two months of the calendar year. You may be coming out of a period of difficulty and heartache and need the reminder that you are strong, resilient, and still have so much to be thankful for. It’s possible you’ve been distracted by what seems like endless success and need to think about the people who have been supporting you from the beginning. No matter what your story, these 150 quotes will have you reaching across the Thanksgiving table for both cranberry sauce and inner contemplation!

1. “The simple act of practicing Gratitude, consistently, is your invitation to a new life. Accepting the invitation is now up to you.” — Josie Robinson

2. “Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.” — Germany Kent

3. “To become a better you, remember to be Grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today.” — Israelmore Ayivor

4. “Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others.” — Etty Hillesum

5. “No matter what the situation is…close your eyes and think of all the things in your life you could be grateful for right now.” — Deepak Chopra

6. “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

7. “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” — Gertrude Stein

8. “Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden

9. “Gratitude is a feedback loop that will show you where you are thriving.” — Danielle LaPorte

10. “In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day—or to celebrate each special day.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru

11. “Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.” — Ann Voskamp

12. “Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or the last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” — Betty Smith

13. “I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.” — Roger Federer

Thanksgiving Quotes That Show Gratitude

14. “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

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

16. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein

17. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” — Eric Hoffer

18. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” — Thornton Wilder

19. “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

20. “When I force myself to utter the awkward phrase, ‘I am grateful,’ I actually start to feel a bit more grateful…It’s basic cognitive behavioral therapy: Behave in a certain way, and your mind will eventually catch up with your actions.” — A.J. Jacobs

21. “All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.” — Doris Lessing

Quotes for a Happy Thanksgiving

22. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” — Denis Waitley

23. “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” — Shannon L. Alder

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

25. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle

26. “Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted—a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner

27. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” — Oscar Wilde

28. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have—life itself.” — Walter Anderson

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

30. “I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.” — Stephen King

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

32. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” — Maya Angelou

33. “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

34. “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.” — Lawrence Welk

35. “Too often, we forget to thank the people who are closest to us. They are easy to take for granted, and we can expend all our patience and niceties on strangers and have only leftovers to give our family.” — Kent Brantly

36. “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” — Robert Caspar Lintner

37. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

39. “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

40. “I am one of the happiest gals you know because I choose it every single day. I choose to practice gratitude; I choose to surround myself with things and people who support positivity.” — Rachel Hollis

41. “‘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

42. “Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

43. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

44. “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

45. “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.” — Amelia Earhart

46. “Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.” — GZA

47. “Happiness already exists in your life. All you need to do is tune into it. And you can start doing that right now.” — Anthon St. Maarten

48. “You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

49. “If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we’d all be much happier.” — John Wooden

50. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — William Wordsworth

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

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

53. “If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” — Robert Quillen

54. “Everything changed when I switched from saying ‘I have to do this’ to ‘I GET to do this.'” — Charlotte Eriksson

55. “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” — Roy T. Bennett

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

57. “Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.” — Aristotle

58. “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” — Brian Tracy

59. “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. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.” — Ralph Marston.

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

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

62. “When you give and carry out acts of kindness, it’s as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'” — Rabbi Harold Kushner

63. “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum

64. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

65. “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” — Roy T. Bennett

66. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus

67. “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” — Seneca

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

69. “Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift – today.” — Steve Maraboli

70. “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

Appreciation Thanksgiving Quotes

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

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

73. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” — Buddha

74. “Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

75. “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.” — Germany Kent

76. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take thing for granted or take them with gratitude.” — G.K. Chesterton

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

78. “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” — John Ortberg

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

80. “I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful — as a child is — for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking.” — Faith Baldwin

81. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault

82. “Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.” — Dennis Prager