Good Thanksgiving Quotes

• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Pelekanos Books

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• 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.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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

  W. Clement Stone

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, God

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• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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  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

  Positive, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

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• 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

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Happiness, Thank You

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

  Kevin James

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Good Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

  William Arthur Ward

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• 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!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Sports, Football

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 67, September 1, 2004.

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• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Thanksgiving, Littles, Patient

  Alexander Pope, “Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book”

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• If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

  Frank A. Clark

  Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1909). “Speeches of William Jennings Bryan”

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• My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Mother

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• Thanks are the highest form of thought.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Thank You, Teacher

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• 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

  Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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• Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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• It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Doctrine

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation

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