Simple Thanksgiving Quotes For Profound Toasts

Whether you are hosting Thanksgiving at your home or are just a grateful guest, a Thanksgiving toast before the meal is a great way to set the tone. Speaking in front of a crowd, especially on a holiday like Thanksgiving, can be a little nerve-wracking. While your speech doesn't have to be long, it needs to be memorable and meaningful. Try opening up your Thanksgiving toast with an appropriate Thanksgiving quote. These sweet sentiments are totally perfect for raising a toast to honor and commemorate this day of gratitude.

Todd Stocker

"Thankfulness creates gratitude, which generates contentment that causes peace."

Fred de Witt Van Amburgh

"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."

Meister Eckhart

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."

William Faulkner

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

Oprah Winfrey

"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."

Henry van Dyke

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."