Inspirational Quotes for Thanksgiving Holiday

While the Thanksgiving holiday is an occasion of celebration and feasting, one must not forget the reason underlying the celebration. Here are some inspirational quotes for thanksgiving. These simple words teach the lesson of gratitude.

Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Jacobsen
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Thomas Fuller
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.

Irving Berlin
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks -- I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

Odell Shepard
For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.

G. A. Johnston Ross
If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence.

Anne Frank
I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

William Shakespeare
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Alice W. Brotherton
Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.

H. W. Westermayer
The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts... nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

William Jennings Bryan
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Hebrews 13:15
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Edward Sandford Martin
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

O. Henry
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Cynthia Ozick
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Robert Casper Lintner
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

George Washington
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.

Robert Quillen
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

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