Heartwarming Family Thanksgiving Quotes to Inspire Gratitude and Togetherness

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling."

- Henry van Dyke

"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more valuable than wealth."

- Charles Kuralt

"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 am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues … are created, strengthened and maintained."

- Winston Churchill

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?"

- Charlie Brown

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

- Irv Kupcinet

"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

"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

"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

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

- Neal A. Maxwell

"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."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands."

- Maria Shriver

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

- Maya Angelou

"Have gratitude for all that you have, and you can be happy exactly as you are."

- Mandy Ingber

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

- Margaret Cousins

"To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing."

- John Bytheway

"Friendship’s the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

- Thomas Fuller

"True friendship resists time, distance and silence."

- Isabel Allende

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

- Thomas Aquinas

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."

- C.S. Lewis

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends."

- William Shakespeare

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace."

- Arianna Huffington

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

"You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul."

- Amy Collette

"You never know where a blessing can come from."

- Teena Marie

"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."

- Anthony Robbins

"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness ... all the good things."

- Maya Angelou

"No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

- Alfred North Whitehead

"A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen."

- John O'Donohue

"Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude."

- Deepak Chopra

"Giving is the key to living life of abundance blessings."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises."

- Janette Oke

"Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things."

- Rhonda Byrne

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."

- John F. Kennedy

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

- Germany Kent

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity … it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else’s. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

- Kin Hubbard

"It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have."

- Drew Barrymore

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."

- Tom Wilson

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."

- A.A. Milne

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."

- Haniel Long

"Family is not an important thing. It’s everything."

- Michael J. Fox

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

- Mother Teresa

"Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing."

- Irina Shayk

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."

- Anthony Brandt

"Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

- Lilo & Stitch

"That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable."

- Deb Caletti

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."

- Gerald Good

"It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."

- Peter Buffett

"You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life."

- Matthew Quick

"What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering."

- Robert Brault

"In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

- Jane Howard

"In all things, give thanks."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:18

"What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside to say thank you."

- John Clayton

"Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings."

- Rashida Jones

"Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home."

- Melanie White

"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work."

- Mitch Albom

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything."

- Thomas Merton

"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.'"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot."

- Hausa Proverb

"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day."

- Robert Caspar Lintner

"Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone."

- Gladys Browyn Stern

"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

"Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life."

- Lindsey Bareham

"Among all the wonderful things in this world, I'm grateful to be a part of such a wonderful, supportive, and loving family!"

- Unknown

"Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have."

"Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the blessings of life."

- Unknown

"Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude."

"Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life."

- Unknown

"Thanksgiving is about cherishing those closest to us. I cherish having a sibling as wonderful as you by my side."

- Unknown

"Grandparents are the family's greatest blessing and Thanksgiving's wisest guests. Thanks for enriching our lives."

- Unknown

"Mom and Dad, your love and guidance are the greatest gifts I’ve ever received. Thank you for everything."

- Unknown

"Thankful for the love that surrounds us and the family that binds us."

- Unknown

"Family is the compass that guides us. Thankful for every moment."

- Unknown

"Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude."

"Thanksgiving is a time to remember and embrace those who enrich our life."

- Unknown

"I may be thankful for a lot of things, but mostly, I am thankful to have you."

- Unknown

"Happy Thanksgiving. As I take time to give thanks for many blessings in my life, I want to let you know how grateful I am that you are one of them."

- Unknown

"I’m thankful for a lot of things, but I’m most thankful for you. Happy Thanksgiving!"

- Unknown

"To our family, whose love and support have carried us through life's challenges and triumphs."

- Unknown

"May our hearts always find solace in one another, and may our love continue to grow stronger with each passing year."

- Unknown

"Here's to the memories we've made and the many more we'll create together as a family."

- Unknown

"Happy Thanksgiving to the people who make me thankful to be me."

- Unknown

"Today is the time to be thankful and remember good times."

- Unknown

"Thank you for being my greatest blessing!"

- Unknown

"Thanksgiving is the perfect time to honor the love and sacrifices of our parents."

- Unknown

"Family and feast—the best of Thanksgiving."

- Unknown

"We might be a crazy family, but I would never ever wish for it to be any other way."

- Unknown

"I am so deeply thankful for you!"

- Unknown

"I am so grateful that I have such an incredible family."

- Unknown

"Thank you so much for all the amazing things you have done for me."

- Unknown

"To my wonderful family, I’m so grateful for every moment we share. Happy Thanksgiving!"

"Happy Thanksgiving! May your day be filled with love, laughter, and the warmth of family."

"Thanksgiving is a time to count our blessings, and having you in my life tops the list!"

"Thanksgiving is a time to show appreciation and gratitude."

- Unknown

"Here’s to the memories we’ve made and the ones we’ll create this Thanksgiving!"

"Thankful for you today and every day. Happy Thanksgiving!"

"May the wishbone snap in your favor this Thanksgiving."

- Unknown

"Grateful hearts make for happy holidays. Wishing you all the best this Thanksgiving!"

"May the turkey leg be yours this Thanksgiving."

- Unknown

"Happy Thanksgiving! Your trust and support mean the world to us. Thank you for being part of our journey."

"It's not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it's the seconds."

"We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all."