Inspirational, Funny and Grateful Sayings

Thanksgiving is almost here.

A time to spend with loved ones. To eat delicious food, relax and have fun together.

And to take some time to reflect on what you can be grateful for (both small and bigger things in life).

So I thought this would be a good time to share 100 of the most inspirational, grateful and funny short Thanksgiving quotes.

Use them in a text or a group chat with friends. For your social media like Instagram or in your home on a letter board. Or in real life sometime during your Thanksgiving holiday.

Short and Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
– Melody Beattie

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W.T. Purkiser

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
– Cicero

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“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 roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation.”
– Dalai Lama

“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, 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

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
– James E. Faust

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Gratitude at Work

“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

“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

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

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

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden

“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
– Tony Robbins

“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”
– Rhonda Byrne

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”
– Amy Collette

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson

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

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

Short and Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Less Holiday Stress

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
– Rick Riordan

“Cooking tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Keep your friends close, but your relatives at a distance during Thanksgiving dinner.”
– David Letterman

“The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.”
– John Walters

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.”
– Damien Fahey

“It’s not the minutes spent at the Thanksgiving table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.”
– Unknown

“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.”
– Melanie White

“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
– Gloria Fallon

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields

“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
– Wayne Huizenga

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Express Your Gratitude

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
– Deb Caletti

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou

“What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.”
– Robert Brault

“Home is people. Not a place.”
– Robin Hobb

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family.”
– Haniel Long

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love.”
– Mitch Albom

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
– Peter Buffett

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
– Jane Howard

“Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created.”
– Winston Churchill

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Beloved Friends

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
– Maria Shriver

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“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 awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
– Danielle Duckery

“To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.”
– John Bytheway

“Friendship is the wine of life.”
– Edward Young

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
– Thomas Fuller

“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”
– Isabel Allende

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
– William Shakespeare

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good friends are like pumpkin pie – sweet and always there when you need them.”
– Sandra Shea

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

“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

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

“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree

“What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food.”
– Daniel Humm

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”
– Alice Walker

Want more inspiration for your holiday? Then have a look at these inspirational Thanksgiving quotes, the funny quotes about Thanksgiving here and also this one with short Thanksgiving captions.

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