1. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” -Lionel Hampton
2. “Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” -Rumi
3. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” -Maya Angelou
4. “True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.’” -Oprah Winfrey
5. “I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” -Will Arnett
6. “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” Roy T. Bennett
7. “Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.” -Lindsey Bareham
8. “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don’t think so.” -Nora Ephron
9. “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
10. “Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
11. “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
12. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” -Johannes A. Gaertner
13. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” -Randy Pausch
14. “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” -Henry Van Dyke
15. “Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot.” -Hausa Proverb
16. “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” -Robert Caspar Lintner
17. “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” -Gerald Good
18. “He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart.” -J.A. Shedd
19. “Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.” Catherine Pulsifer
20. “Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” -Margaret Cousins
21. “Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.” -Franz Grillparzer
22. “What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.” -Daniel Humm
23. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” -Anne Frank
24. “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” -Yogi Bhajan
25. “We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” -John F. Kennedy
26. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” -Charles Dickens
27. “Be present in all things and thankful for all.” -Maya Angelou
28. “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” -Amy Leigh Mercree
29. “Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.” -Wilbur D. Nesbit
30. “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” -Norman Vincent Peale
31. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” -Willie Nelson
32. “The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.” -James E. Faust
33. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” -Maya Angelou
34. “What if today, we were just grateful for everything?” -Charlie Brown
35. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” -W. Clement Stone
36. “A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.” -Bruce Wilkinson
37. “It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” -David Steindl-Rast
38. “I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family.” -Marcus Samuelsson
39. “There are only two ways to live your live. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other as is though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein
40. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” -William Blake
41. “Thankfulness is measured by the number of words. Gratitude is measured by the nature of our actions.” -David O. McKay
42. “Thanks are the highest form of thought, and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” -G.K. Chesterton
43. “Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
44. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” -Henry David Thoreau
45. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” -Oprah Winfrey
46. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” -Nigel Hamilton
47. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
48. “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
49. “Thanksgiving day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.” -E.P. Powell
50. “Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.” -Wilbur D. Nesbit