"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
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart
"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence."
- William Jennings Bryan
"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."
- Edward Sandford Martin
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
- Aesop
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
- William Arthur Ward
"Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness."
- Robert Casper Lintner
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."
- Cicero
"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
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
- Estonian Proverb
"Do not get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time."
- Galatians 6:9
"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
- Albert Barnes
"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
"It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day."
- Marilu Henner
"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."
- Tony Snow
