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.