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