Thanksgiving Day 2017: 14 Quotes To Show Gratitude For Family And Friends

Declared as a national holiday in the United States and Canada, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November. This year the day falls on Nov. 23. Thanksgiving Day has its historical roots in English traditions, dating from Protestant Reformation. However, it is popularly observed to celebrate the blessing of the harvest bounty.

To celebrate the day of gratitude, we have compiled a list of popular quotes and sayings from Brainy Quotes, Forbes and GoodHouseKeeping.com so that you can express your thankfulness towards friends and family.

1. "Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome well." — Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

3. "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." — G.K. Chesterton

4. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." — Marcel Proust

5. "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

6. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are." — Joyce Giraud

7. "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

8. "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving." — W.T. Purkiser
9. "The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!" — Henry Ward Beecher
10. "When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves — that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience." — N.T. Wright
11. "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." — Thornton Wilder

12. "None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy." — Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

13. "'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you, expresses extreme gratitude, humility, and understanding." — Alice Walker

14. "I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High." — Psalms 7:17