As we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with our friends and families, let's remember that Thanksgiving is about gratitude. Here is a great collection of quotes about gratitude that remind you of just how much you have to be thankful for.
“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
“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
~Todd Stocker
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
~Marcel Proust
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.”
~James Brown
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
~Thomas Carlyle
“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.”
~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
~Meister Eckhart
“Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!”
~Marie Corelli
“Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.”
~Edward Everett
“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
“My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.”
~Jenna Morasca
“I'm thankful for every moment.”
~Al Green
“I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.”
~Alexander Wang
“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
~Izaak Walton
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
~Eric Hoffer
“There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”
~Joyce Meyer
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
“The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.”
~Richard Carlson
“I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.”
~Eckhart Tolle
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.”
~Maya Angelou
“Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.”
~William Bennett
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
~Melody Beattie
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”
~Dalai Lama
“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”
~Alan Cohen
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
~James Allen
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else's fairytale.”
~Wale Ayeni