Thanksgiving is a time for togetherness and appreciation, so we have put together a list of all the best short happy Thanksgiving quotes to share your thoughts. And if you’re looking for short happy Thanksgiving sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Short Happy Thanksgiving Quotes
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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” — Winston Churchill
“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” — Amit Ray
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Everything changed when I switched from saying ‘I have to do this’ to ‘I GET to do this.’” — Charlotte Eriksson
“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” — Roy T. Bennett
“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.” — Joshua Kai
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” — Eric Hoffer
“I know that I have died before once in November.” — Anne Sexton
“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
“If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we’d all be much happier.” — John Wooden
“My lovely November. Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?” — A Waltz for Zizi
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” — Mother Teresa
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” — Emily Dickinson
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” — Mother Teresa
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I try to start every day and end every day by taking a moment to be grateful.” — Olivia Wilde
“No matter what our circumstances, we can find a reason to be thankful.” — David Jeremiah
“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.” — Rita Rudner
“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset.” — E.E. Cummings
“Another fall, another turned page.” — Wallace Stegner
“Thanksgiving creates abundance.” — Ann Voskamp
“Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.” — Aristotle
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — William Wordsworth
“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” — Voltaire
“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.” — Thomas Goodwin
“Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.” — P.J. O’Rourke
“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring.” — Edwin Way Teale
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” — Maya Angelou
“Pie makes everybody happy.” — Laurie Halse Anderson
“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.” — Kin Hubbard
“Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.” — Ann Voskamp
“Of all of the food filled holidays, Thanksgiving reigns king in the United States.” — Gia Scott
“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” — Brené Brown
“This is going to be a November to remember” ― Charmaine J. Forde
“Gratitude is a feedback loop that will show you where you are thriving.” — Danielle LaPorte
“Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.” — Eric Samuel Timm
“Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
“In November, the smell of food is different. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.” — Cynthia Rylant
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” — George Bernard Shaw
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” — Oscar Wilde
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” — Erma Bombeck
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson
“This November there seems to be nothing to say.” — Anne Sexton
“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.” — Todd Stocker
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” — Rémy de Gourmont
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” — John F. Kennedy
“Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftover in aluminum foil and throw them out.” — Nicole Hollander
“Gratitude tends to attract the things for which we are grateful in advance.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” — Robert Quillen
“I know what I’m having for Thanksgiving and it ain’t turkey.” — Anthony T. Hincks
“Count your blessings. Focus on what you’ve got. Spread the positive vibes.” — Jyoti Patel
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” — Maya Angelou
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” — William James
“November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
“Here I am, 5 o’clock in the morning, stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird’s butt.” — Rosanne in Rosanne
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” — Roy T. Bennett
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.” — Alexandra Katehakis
“Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” — Gertrude Stein
“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” — Sharon Salzberg
“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” — Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” — Dalai Lama
“She loved the fall, all the sun-faded colors of summer repainted by vivid reds and golds.” — Naomi Ragen
“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.” — Walt Whitman
“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” — Brian Tracy
“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.” — Laura Jaworski
“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.” — Neal A. Maxwell
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.“ ― Linda Grayson
“November at its best—with a sort of delightful menace in the air.” — Anne Bosworth Greene
“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.” — Sir Walter Scott
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller
“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”. — Emily Brontë
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” — C.S. Lewis
“I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.” — Roger Federer
“November, n. The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.” — Ambrose Bierce
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” — Aesop
“‘Enough’ is a feast.” — Buddhist proverb
“Will you forgive me these November days?” ― Anna Akhmatova
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” — Dalai Lama
“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” — Robert Caspar Lintner
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“ ― Eustache Deschamps
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” — Jacques Delille
“Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
“Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving.” — Mike Connolly
“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.” — GZA
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” — William Blake
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” — W. Clement Stone
“They do not love, that do not show their love.” — William Shakespeare
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Short Thanksgiving Letter Board Quotes, Happy Thanksgiving Wishes and Short Autumn Quotes.
Short happy Thanksgiving Sayings and Captions
Every morning, I’m grateful for your positive energy. Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving and may your feast be abundant!
Have a happy Thanksgiving Day, from one grateful heart to another.
Happy Piesgiving, folks!
Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
B-autumns up
Let us give thanks with grateful hearts.
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
Happy Turkey Day!
Hello, pumpkin
A happy heart is a thankful heart.
Eat hard, nap harder
So glad to spend this special day with you. Let’s raise our glasses and give thanks.
Every day is leg day
Wishing you a restful and relaxing holiday! Happy Thanksgiving.
Give thanks for a little and you will get a lot.
Give thanks for a little and you’ll find a lot.
May you enjoy a grand feast and the loving company of your family. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.
May you enjoy blessings in abundance. Happy Thanksgiving.
May your life be full of both Thanks and Giving!
Let’s talk turkey
The turkey is in the oven, the cider is spiked with rum, now let the family gossip begin. Happy Thanksgiving!
This year, I’m grateful for so many things, but you’re at the top of my list. Happy Thanksgiving.
May the bounty of the season fill your heart and home.
Don’t bother counting calories today, just your blessings. Wishing you a very happy Thanksgiving!
On this Thanksgiving Day, let us take a moment to count our numerous blessings.
I yam what I yam
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.
Gourd times
Happy Thanksgiving, and I’m looking forward to another year full of memories.
Gratitude changes everything
Pies before guys
Eat, Drink, and be Thankful!
Gratitude is the heart’s memory.
Thankful, Grateful, Blessed.
Enjoy the feasting! Happy Thanksgiving!
Eat – Watch Football – Eat – Repeat.
Choose to be grateful.
Love at first bite
Easy as pie!
Fifty shades of gravy
Talk turkey to me
Blessed beyond belief
There is always, always something to be thankful for.
I’m so glad to know someone like you. Happy Thanksgiving!
May you enjoy the bounty of Thanksgiving.
Enjoy the feasting! Happy Thanksgiving!
Let’s get basted
Gobble ’til you wobble
It’s turkey time
Taters gonna tate
Thankful and grateful.
Wishing you a happy and blessed Thanksgiving!
So that is it for our list of Short Happy Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
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Laynni Locke
Laynni has been sharing her travel adventures and day-to-day life on Routinely Nomadic social media for over 15 years and appreciates the importance of finding the perfect quote or caption to showcase those experiences. Putting her extensive writing and education background to good use, Laynni has become passionate about researching and curating comprehensive lists of all the best quotes and captions for every occasion.