6. “Thanksgiving: giving Him thanks for what He has done and how He has revealed Himself to you.” – Tony Watson

7. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

8. “There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.” – O. Henry

9. “At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I’m grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial… like being thankful for my Louboutins.” – Christie Brinkley

10. “An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.” – Irv Kupcinet

11. “Often I’ll speak my thanksgiving aloud. Hearing the long list of good gifts God has given me is usually just what I need to restore my joy.” – Lori Hatcher

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12. “If you made a list of all the things you could be thankful for, the list would undoubtedly be longer than your misfortunes.” – Catherine Pulsifer

13. “Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” – W.J. Cameron

14. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.” – W.T. Purkiser

15. “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.” – Lawrence Welk

16. “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” – Yogi Bhajan

17. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” –

18. “We are blessed in so many ways; many things we take for granted but we should stop and be thankful each and every day.” – Catherine Pulsifer

19. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” – Harry Ironside

20. “Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.” – Kurt Busch

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

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22. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” – Frank A. Clark

23. “I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.” – Charles Spurgeon

24. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – G.K. Chesterton

25. “I’m thankful for every moment.” – Al Green

26. “Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.” – Konrad von Gesner

27. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” – W. Clement Stone

28. “I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

29. “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your knows much more about it than you do.” – Victor Hugo

30. “Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.” – Franz Grillparzer

31. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward

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32. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” –

33. “I’m not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.” – Ruth Reichl

34. “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” – Henry Van Dyke

35. “Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we’re thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!” – Debby Ryan

36. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” –

37. “My are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.” – Katharine McPhee

38. “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” – Amy Grant

39. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.” – Marcus Samuelsson

40. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” – Willard Scott

41. “Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.” – John Clayton

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42. “That’s one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football’s on!” – Michael Strahan

43. “Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.” – John Clayton

44. “The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.” – Warren W. Wiersbe

45. “Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday – it’s a day that’s American to the core and it’s a day that’s all about what and how we eat.” – Marcus Samuelsson