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The best Thanksgiving quotes for family, friends, work, and more.
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Happy Thanksgiving quotes for greeting cards and more.
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Appreciation Thanksgiving quotes to nurture the practice of gratitude.
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Thanksgiving quotes for family to bask in gratitude together.
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Friends Thanksgiving quotes for Friendsgiving, cards, social media shares, and more.
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How to turn Thanksgiving quotes into eye-catching designs.
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Inspirational Thanksgiving quotes to take gratitude to a whole new level.
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Thanksgiving quotes for work for coworkers, bosses, employees, and clients.
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Short Thanksgiving quotes that get right to the point.
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Tips to help more people feel the gratitude this Thanksgiving.
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The best Thanksgiving quotes for family, friends, work, and more.

What does the week of Thanksgiving look like for you? Are you busy planning the year’s most anticipated meal? Are you preparing to travel across the country? Are you charting your route through town for a Black Friday excursion?

Between the planning and the shopping, there’s the holiday itself: Thanksgiving. Having a public holiday devoted to giving thanks is a cultural blessing of its own. Every year, we’re reminded to practice gratitude.

Showing thanks takes many forms, and we have a wealth of famous Thanksgiving quotes to help us live gratitude—and Thanksgiving—in new ways.

From “ah-ha” epiphanies about thankfulness to the inspiring quotes that leave tears in your eyes, these Thanksgiving quotes are meant to be felt and shared—just like gratitude itself.

Happy Thanksgiving quotes for greeting cards and more.

How many times do you say “happy Thanksgiving” in late November? This cheerful greeting rings through the halls at work, trickles across every phone call, and is written countless times in Thanksgiving cards.

For a fresh spin on wishing someone a great day, these Thanksgiving Day quotes capture the charm of the holiday in a unique way. Quotes like these will fill hearts in memorable ways as you share them.

Where could these happy Thanksgiving quotes help spread the most gratitude? A poster in the breakroom could give coworkers pause. A banner in the dining room could adorn family meals for a week. Even a social media banner on a business’s profile could set the tone for every interaction. It’s all easy to make in Adobe Express, too—no experience required.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Cicero
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
Aesop
“Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot.”
Hausa Proverb
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
Meister Eckhart
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
St. Ambrose

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Appreciation Thanksgiving quotes to nurture the practice of gratitude.

With everyone seated around the table at Thanksgiving, you feel completely in the moment. The background noise of cellphones buzzing has gone silent. The workweek is completely out of your mind. Before you eat, someone speaks. In some homes, maybe it’s a blessing. Other homes share Thanksgiving thankful quotes. Others take turns sharing something they’re thankful for.

It’s in this moment that you remember what Thanksgiving means. You already know the importance of gratitude, but feeling it, showing it, and making it a practice is something else.

Before and after the occasion, appreciation Thanksgiving quotes are what keep your gratitude going. These quotes are perfect to share in cards, heartfelt letters, and around the table.

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
Aesop
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
St. Ambrose

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Thanksgiving quotes for family to bask in gratitude together.

Thanksgiving is one of the key times when families come together. From across state lines and even national borders, people trek back home, whatever “home” means to them.

Family Thanksgiving quotes are about the gratitude of togetherness. Those who can’t be together in person still come together through mutual gestures of thankfulness, and the season becomes ripe with renewed appreciation for kin.

Choose the Thanksgiving quotes for family that make you think of home. Use them in cards to send from afar, in banners to hang over the table, or in photo collages of cherished Thanksgivings past.

“He who receives a good turn should never forget it.”
Publilius Syrus
“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”
Thomas Fuller
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust

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Friends Thanksgiving quotes for Friendsgiving, cards, social media shares, and more.

Friendship is one of life’s greatest gifts, and it’s natural to feel extra thankful for friends at Thanksgiving. Cute Thanksgiving quotes that work perfectly for friends are found everywhere, from social media posts to photo collages filled with memories. These quotes capture the gratitude we feel for those people we choose to hold near.

There is such a thing as “Friendsgiving,” too, where the Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated with friends around the turkey, rather than family. The motivations for Friendsgiving range from geographic nearness (when family is further away) to estranged family relationships. By surrounding ourselves with friends, it’s just as easy to feel Thankful for the holiday.

Choose your favorite Thanksgiving quotes for friends and imagine who in your life would appreciate them.

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.”
Marcel Proust
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Cicero
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas
“No road is long with good company.”
Turkish Proverb
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”
George Washington

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How to turn Thanksgiving quotes into eye-catching designs.

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Select your favorite Thanksgiving quote.
Pick a quote that matches the mood or message you want to share.
Choose a design style.
Open Adobe Express and browse templates. You can select classic, modern or artistic styles that suit your Thanksgiving quote.
Emphasise the words.
Place the quote in a prominent position. Try different fonts and layouts to make it attractive.
Enhance the visual appeal.
Add supporting visuals, frames, colors or filters to enhance the quote without distracting from it.
Share your creation.
Download or post directly from Adobe Express, ensuring the quote is clear, inspiring and visually appealing.

Inspirational Thanksgiving quotes to take gratitude to a whole new level.

If you’ve ever felt inspired the week of Thanksgiving to show gratitude everywhere you go, you aren’t alone. These inspirational Thanksgiving quotes gained fame because of their highly relatable nature.

There are Thanksgiving blessing quotes that help us see what we have, and there are motivational Thanksgiving quotes that remind us what we can do. Each brings its own flavor to the Thanksgiving table.

Choose your favorite inspirational Thanksgiving quotes and share them with friends, family, coworkers, and the world at large. These are the messages that could change the course of someone’s day. Think of these on posters, flyers, and cards—anywhere people are likely to see them.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Cicero
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
Meister Eckhart

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Thanksgiving quotes for work for coworkers, bosses, employees, and clients.

Whereas other holidays leave gray areas around when it’s prudent to say “happy this” or “merry that,” Thanksgiving is a nondenominational holiday that can—and should—come up at the workplace. We’re grateful for helpful colleagues, for wise leadership, and for clients who keep us going.

Thanksgiving work quotes are handy for announcements and flyers, cards sent to customers, and Thanksgiving eve quotes sent by email before the long weekend. History’s greats left us with quotes that range from work-safe to completely work-specific.

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”
William Shakespeare
“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”
William James
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
Charles Dickens

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Short Thanksgiving quotes that get right to the point.

What do you do when you need to keep it short? If you’re squeezing a handwritten message onto a card with 20 other signatures, or looking for the perfect Instagram post, or simply don’t want to overdo it, use these short Thanksgiving quotes to get right to the point.

In 52 characters or less, you can send memorable messages about gratitude, leave people smiling, and feel great about the day.

“Give thanks for all things.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18

Tips to help more people feel the gratitude this Thanksgiving.

Today, there are more creative ways to send Thanksgiving quotes than ever, because Adobe Express makes everything from custom greeting cards to flyers and banners easy to make.

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