If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
-Gerald Good
Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing.
-Henry Jacobsen
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
-Estonian Proverb
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart
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
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
~W.J. Cameron
He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~Erma Bombeck
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
~Irv Kupcinet
Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, – a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
~Joseph Auslander
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
~William Jennings Bryan
It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.
~W.J. Cameron
Lord, ’tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv’st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
~Robert Herrick
Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
~Native American Saying
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
~Cicero
Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.
~Author Unknown
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
~Kevin James
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
~Seneca
All that we behold is full of blessings.
~William Wordsworth
For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.
~Odell Shepard
O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
~William Shakespeare
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
~Aesop
Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
Psalm 150:6
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good…
Psalm 100:4
“God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.”
~Jeremy Taylor
