65 Inspirational And Funny Thanksgiving Quotes To Celebrate Turkey Day

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year when we gather with friends and family over delicious home-cooked meals. It's a day inspired by gratitude, to give thanks for all we have, and celebrate with the people who mean the most in our life. We've rounded up a few of our favorite quotes to commemorate this relaxing holiday that captures the season's true spirit.

We have Thanksgiving quotes for every mood, from profound expressions of gratitude to funny remarks about family. Recite these quotes around your Thanksgiving table to inspire the crowd, then throw in a few of our favorite Thanksgiving jokes to earn some laughs. After all, nothing gets the party started like a good turkey pun. Here are some of our favorite quotes for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Quotes About Gratitude

• "I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual." – Henry David Thoreau
• "What if, today, we were grateful for everything?" – Charlie Brown
• "Be present in all things and thankful for all things." – Maya Angelou
• "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." –Oprah Winfrey
• "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life." –Melody Beattie
• "Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." –William Faulkner
• "Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." –Hansa Proverb
• "If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." –W. Clement Stone
• "Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other." –Randy Pausch
• "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." –Ernest Hemingway
  
• "Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life." -Rumi
• "Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." -Lionel Hampton
• “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
• “A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.” -Bruce Wilkinson
• "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." -William Blake
• “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
• "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -John F. Kennedy
• “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.” -Charlotte Brontë
• "When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty, my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup." -Sam Lefkowitz

Thanksgiving Quotes About The Holiday

• "Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." –Amy Grant
• "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." –Meister Eckhart
• "Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside." – Willard Scott
• "Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home." –Wilbur D. Nesbit
• "Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be." –George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 3, 1789
• "What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?" –Erma Bombeck
• "We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all." –Unknown
• “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown." -Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• "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
• "He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart." -J.A. Shedd
• “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
• "We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction." -H.A. Ironside
• “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence." -William Jennings Bryan
  
• "Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell." -Craig D. Lounsbrough

Funny Thanksgiving Quotes

• "After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations." –Oscar Wilde
• "Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence." –Erma Bombeck
• "Thanksgiving, man! Not a good day to be my pants." –Kevin James
• "I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it." –Robert Brault
• "I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage." –Erma Bombeck
• "It's not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it's the seconds." –Unknown
• "An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." –Irv Kupcine
  
• “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
• "I like football. I find it's an exciting strategic game. It's a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving." –Craig Ferguson
• “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw

Quotes About Thanksgiving Dinner

• "Pie makes everybody happy." –Laurie Halse Anderson
• "Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life" –Lindsey Bareham
• "It's not too much food. This is what we've been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour." –Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
• "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
• "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." –Ina Garten
• "I can't cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast." –Charlie Brown
• "My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jello with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious." –Bobby Moynihan
• "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie." –Jim Davis
• "Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving." –Mike Connolly
• "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it." -Franz Grillparzer
  

Thanksgiving Quotes About Counting Blessings

• "We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count." –Neal A. Maxwell
• "Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel." –Unknown
• "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving." –W.T. Purkiser
• "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." –Willie Nelson
• "Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way." –Native American saying
• "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
• "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are." -Joyce Giraud
• "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." -Charles Dickens
• “The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.” -James E. Faust
• “Simple blessings are all around us. Once we receive them with thanksgiving and appreciation, we experience true joy.” –Krystal Kuehn