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