Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.                                           —Albert Schweitzer

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

                     —Gertrude B. Stein

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.         

                       —Charles Dickens

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, / Thou are not so unkind / As man’s ingratitude.

             —William Shakespeare

                                                        

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.   

                                          —Cicero

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.               

                                —Anonymous

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

                         —Saint Ambrose

No longer forward nor behind / I look in hope or fear; / But, grateful, take the good I find, / The best of now and here.

        —John Greenleaf Whittier

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.  

                —Robert L. Stevenson

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.       

                            —W.T. Purkiser

One of life’s gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.

                     —J. Robert Maskin

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

               —Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.

                       —Robert C. Linter