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