Quotes on Inspirational Thanksgiving

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

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

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.