Famous Thanksgiving Quotations

Thanksgiving Day is a fantastic time. It is when we should show thanks for what we have and give gratitude to those who deserve it. It's a time of inspiration, motivation, and looking towards the future.

These famous quotes are a great way to help celebrate the glorious day that is Thanksgiving.

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

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

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, after all, is a word of action.
W.J. Cameron

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

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Seneca

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian proverb

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.
Psalm 92:1

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
Robert Caspar Lintner

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet