If we pause to think, we’ll have cause to thank.
God’s highest gift should awaken man’s deepest gratitude.
Thanksgiving is a duty before it’s a feeling.
He who forgets the language of gratitude is not likely to be on speaking terms with God.
Hem your blessings with gratitude lest they unravel.
Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.
Gratitude shouldn’t be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.
A thankful heart enjoys blessings twice–when they’re received and when they’re remembered.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of others.
Think sometimes of all that you have instead of wishing for what you don’t.
If you are not thankful for what you got, it is doubtful if you’ll be thankful for what you will get.
God is found in two places–one of His dwellings in heaven, and the other is in the meek and thankful heart.
It is better to appreciate things you don’t have than to have things you don’t appreciate.
An ungrateful person is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they came from.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
We are the objects of God’s grace; let Him be the object of our gratitude.
Thanksgiving is memory of the heart.
“Thank you” may be written in small letters but is a capital idea.
If you can’t be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
If Christians praised God more, the world would doubt Him less.
Appreciation and praise are the lubrication that makes life more enjoyable to us and others.
Thanksgiving is good, but “thanks-living” is better.
Thanksgiving is a college from which we never graduate.
Some count their blessings on their fingers and their miseries on a calculator.
God’s giving deserves our thanksgiving.
It is a bad moment for an atheist when he feels grateful–who does he thank?
Joy thrives in the soul of thanksgiving.
Thanking the Lord in adversity changes burdens into blessings.
I grumbled because I had to get up every morning–until one morning I couldn’t get up.
Thanking God for our blessings extends them–failing to thank Him will soon end them.
Appreciation is one of the rarest but one of the most beautiful virtues.
No matter how high a man may rise, he must have someone to look up to.
He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he wishes he had.
Anything scarce is valuable–thanks is an example.
It is better to say thank you and not mean it, than to mean it and never say it.
Thankfulness is the soil in which joy thrives.
If a man needs praise–give it to him. He cannot read his tombstone.
If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for all you don’t have that you don’t want. –Marty Radcliff
On the tombstone of her husband’s grave, a Southern mountain woman had chiseled in rough and uneven letters this epitaph: “He always appreciated.” –J. Kenneth Morris