Thanksgiving Sayings

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."
- Cicero

"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

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
- Aesop

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart

"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."
- Tony Snow

"It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day."
- Marilu Henner

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
- Estonian Proverb

'Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
- William Arthur Ward