Top 20 Thanksgiving Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

— Melody Beattie

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2. “Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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3. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

— Melody Beattie

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4. “What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”

— Max Lucado

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5. “If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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6. “It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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7. “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

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8. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”

— Maya Angelou

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9. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

— Meister Eckhart

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10. “To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.”

— Thomas Merton

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11. “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”

— Brené Brown

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12. “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”

— Tecumseh

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13. “The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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14. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

— Willie Nelson

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15. “Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

— Charles Dickens

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16. “Thank God in advance for what’s already yours.”

— Denzel Washington

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17. “In everything give thanks.”

— Paul the Apostle

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18. “If you only say one prayer in a day, make it, ‘Thank You.’”

— Rumi

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19. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”

— W. Clement Stone

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20. “All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

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21. “Worship comes from a thankful heart.”

— Chris Tomlin

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22. “Counting blessings is better than recounting problems.”

— Russell M. Nelson

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23. “Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.”

— Joel Osteen

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