The Top 30 Thanksgiving Quotes, Sayings and Messages for a Joyful Holiday

Thanksgiving is a time for finding joy together with family and friends.

A time to reconnect to all you can be grateful for (even through hard times).

It’s also a time to relax, to have fun and to eat some great food.

To help you with that and to make this holiday a happy and less stressful one I’d like to share the top 30 Thanksgiving quotes, sayings and messages.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here for the coming days (and beyond Thanksgiving too).

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes for a Joyful Holiday

“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

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
– Danielle Duckery

“What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.”
– Daniel Humm

“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

“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

“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.”
– H.A. Ironside

“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

Funny Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings

“Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! It’s the day you forget about all the fighting and division in the world and just focus on all the fighting and division in your family.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“The average time for eating a Thanksgiving dinner is 12 minutes, which, incidentally, coincides with halftime.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Thanksgiving, the day where there’s never enough food. You can’t just have a turkey. No, there has to be a roast beef or a ham too. Or both. It’s the only day we have mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes.”
– Lewis Black

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Thanksgiving: when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook.”
– Melanie White

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.”
– Johnny Carson

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes for a Thankful Mindset

“Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season, and represents food, family and moments of sharing and professing gratitude.”
– Sarah Moore

“If you made a list of all the things you could be thankful for, the list would undoubtedly be longer than your misfortunes.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
– Charles Dickens

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

“What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”
– Franz Grillparzer

“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
– David Steindl-Rast

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

Short and Aesthetic Thanksgiving Quotes

“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

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“There is always, always something to be thankful for.”
– Unknown

“Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“What if today, we were just grateful for everything?”
– Charlie Brown

Want more uplifting inspiration for the season? Then have a look at these positive October quotes, the uplifting fall quotes in this post and the motivational autumn quotes here. Plus, these 5 tips for developing the gratitude habit and this one that’s all about thankfulness even when times are tough.