Thanksgiving will soon be here and although many mainly focus on family there are also friends that are very important.
Plenty of people celebrate Friendsgiving these days to show appreciation and love for the people who choose to be in our lives, the ones that are there on tough days to listen and make us laugh and sometimes maybe understand us better than family would.
So in today’s post I want to share 85 of the most positive, meaningful and funny Thanksgiving quotes for friends.
Use them to express your gratitude, to share a couple of laughs together and to have a happy and fun holiday.
Thanksgiving Quotes for Friends to Express Your Gratitude
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
– Maya Angelou
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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 thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett
“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation.”
– Dalai Lama
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
– Oscar Wilde
“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
– Frank Crane
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
– Robert Brault
“The most thankful person is the most fully human.”
– John Henry Jowett
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
– Maria Shriver
Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Friends
“What’s not to like? Custard, good. Jam, good. Meat, good!”
– Joey Tribbiani (from the Tv-show Friends)
“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields
“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 love spending Thanksgiving surrounded by all these great friends I met in the Best Buy parking lot.”
– John Lyon
“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde
“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
“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets.”
– Erma Bombeck
“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel
“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
“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
“It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.”
– Phyllis Diller
“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault
“The meal isn’t over when I’m full. The meal is over when I hate myself.”
– Louis C.K.
“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
– Gloria Fallon
“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Cooking tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander
“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”
– Charlie Brown
“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.”
– Lorelai Gilmore
Positive and Cute Thanksgiving Quotes for Friends
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”
– Isabel Allende
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“What if today, we were just grateful for everything?”
– Charlie Brown
“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
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler
“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong
“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin
“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
– James E. Faust
“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.”
– Deepak Chopra
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
– Rumi
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Good times and crazy friends make the best memories.”
– Unknown
“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare
“A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.”
– Unknown
“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.”
– Amy Collette
“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”
– Alice Walker
“Friendship is the wine of life.”
– Edward Young
Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Friends
“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton
“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
– Helen Keller
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
– William Arthur Ward
“When I count my blessings, I count you twice.”
– Unknown
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius
“Reflect upon your present blessings.”
– Charles Dickens
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.”
– Native American Proverb
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.”
– W.T. Purkiser
“Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.”
– Willard Scott
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.”
– Melody Beattie
“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.”
– Robert Caspar Lintner
“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.”
– Unknown
“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”
– W. J. Cameron
“And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks.”
– John Taylor
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth
“Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories.”
– Patrick Lindsay
“The more you thank life, the more life gives you to be thankful for.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit
Want more uplifting and timeless thoughts for your holiday? Then check out these Thanksgiving quotes for family, this one filled with Thanksgiving quotes for gratitude at work and also this post with short Thanksgiving quotes.