Thanksgiving is based on the simple-but-important idea that at least once a year, we ought to take time to count our blessings. For most people, the list starts with family and friends. If you have people who care about you, then you have something to truly be grateful for – even if you can't afford the biggest Butterball in the freezer section.
Based on that, it follows that saying Happy Thanksgiving to family and friends should be a top priority. To help you check it off your list, here are some unique Thanksgiving messages you can send to the VIPs in your life. Some of these Thanksgiving wishes are sweet and sentimental, while others are clever, playful or just plain funny.
These messages are geared toward people with whom you have a personal relationship. If you're in business, you might want to consider a different sort of Thanksgiving message for your clients.
Sincere
Here are some genuine and heartfelt Thanksgiving messages.
• Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends. I'm thankful for many things, but you guys top the list.
• May the turkey leg be yours this Thanksgiving.
• Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you enjoy some moist turkey on your dinner table, and some juicy gossip around it.
• I hope your Thanksgiving table is full of your favorite food and surrounded by your favorite people.
• Happy Thanksgiving to the people who make me thankful to be me.
• Hope you have plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and over the coming year.
• Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. With friends like you, my cup runneth over.
• May the wishbone snap in your favor this Thanksgiving.
Special
Here are some Thanksgiving messages for someone who is particularly dear to you, like a best friend, a sister, a brother, or the like.
• THANKS for GIVING me so much love, kindness, and support.
• I'll let other people snap the wishbone this year. With you in my life, I'd feel greedy wishing for anything more.
• What am I thankful for this Thanksgiving? You – the same thing I'm thankful for every day.
• A best friend is someone who lets you have the last piece of pumpkin pie.
• I don't have to remind myself to be grateful. I just have to think of you.
Cute/Funny
Finally, here are some whimsical Thanksgiving wishes for family and friends. You might also find some fun wording ideas in this collection of Thanksgiving puns.
• This Thanksgiving, my heart is bursting with gratitude, and my pants are bursting with several helpings of mashed potatoes.
• I was going to wish you a Happy Turkey Day, but I didn't want to use any fowl language.
• This Thanksgiving, may your heart be as full as your belly.
• Thanksgiving is here, and I cran-barely contain my excitement. Hope you have a great Turkey Day.
• Hope your Thanksgiving Day is full of fun, food, family, and most importantly, football.
• Hope your relatives stay relatively sober and relatively non-political this Thanksgiving.
• Turkey Day is the moist wonderful time of the year.
• May your Thanksgiving Day be full of excitement… except for a couple of hours in there when you want to take a nap.
If you didn't find what you were looking for in this collection of original Thanksgiving messages, you might want to switch gears and employ a famous quote. Fortunately, many profound words have been spoken on the subject of thankfulness over the years.
40 Awesome Thanksgiving Card Messages and Quotes [What to Write In a Thanksgiving Card to Friends, Family and Business Partners]<
• November 5, 2022March 25, 2022
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and give thanks for the blessings in our lives. Though Thanksgiving cards may not be a part of everyone’s traditions, they can be a great way to express your gratitude for the people you care about (especially if you have difficulty saying it in person). Here are some sentiments, messages and quotes to include in your Thanksgiving card to let everyone in your life know how grateful you are for them.
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• Thanksgiving Card Messages for Family
• Professional Thanksgiving Card Messages
• Quotes for a Thanksgiving Card
Thanksgiving Card Messages
Seasonal tidings to your neighbors or sincere "thanks" to your mailperson, a Thanksgiving card can be a warm reminder to anyone in your life that they are valued. Convey your gratitude with one of these Thanksgiving card messages.
• Thanksgiving is a timely reminder to pause and give thanks for the many beautiful things we have in our lives.
• I hope your day is full of food, laughter and quality time with those that love you. Happy Thanksgiving.
• From home to home and heart to heart, warmest wishes this Thanksgiving holiday.
• Wishing you a harvest of good health and good times.
• Hoping your holiday is as fun and bright as the leaves outside!
• To someone sweeter than pumpkin pie, I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving!
• Gather with grateful hearts and give thanks for all that is good.
• Here’s a heartwarming thanks to you this holiday.
Funny Thanksgiving Card Messages
Serve up a ladleful of laughs with one of these funny Thanksgiving card messages. We advise opening this card before dinner, otherwise it may actually be side-splitting!
• It’s not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it’s the seconds…and thirds!
• Gobble gobble ‘till you wobble!
• Here’s hoping you have a better day than the turkey.
• "Happy Turkey Day!" said no turkey ever.
• Hoping my food coma lasts until 2021. Happy Thanksgiving!
• Two things are always plentiful at Thanksgiving: family and food. I hope you enjoy at least one of the two this holiday.
Thanksgiving Card Messages for Family
Give thanks to your family with a warm Thanksgiving card message. Whether they are gathering around the table with you or celebrating from afar, these sentiments are sure to let your loved ones know you are grateful for them every day of the year.
• Thankful to call you family – this year and every year!
• In a year full of ups and downs, I am so thankful to have you by my side on the peaks of the highs and the depths of the lows.
• Having a supportive family like you is something I will always be thankful for.
• May family remind you how big and abundant your blessings are.
• Wishing we were gathered around the table with bellies full of food and hearts full of joy. Happy Thanksgiving, and I hope to see you soon!
• I am blessed to have a family so abundant with love to share these holidays with.
• Gathering the family and giving thanks fills my heart with warmth and joy. Grateful we are able to spend time together this holiday.
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Professional Thanksgiving Card Messages
Give thanks for colleagues and employees with a thoughtful card. Celebrate a year of successes while keeping the tone professional and sincere with one of these Thanksgiving card sentiments.
• In a season of gratitude, we are especially thankful for you and all you do!
• I hope you enjoy this time of year with your loved ones. Happy Thanksgiving!
• We couldn’t be more thankful for you!
• Sincere appreciation for you this Thanksgiving and all year long.
• Thankful for your passion and dedication, which has helped build a year full of blessings.
• I am thankful to have you to work alongside, to learn from, and to inspire me every day.
• I appreciate the joy and positive-attitude you bring to the office. I hope your holiday is bright and fulfilling.
Quotes for a Thanksgiving Card
If you have your hands full during the holiday season, writing thoughtful messages on your Thanksgiving cards may not be one of the highest priorities on your list. Give thanks for these Thanksgiving quotes that may help convey the gratitude in your heart without having to find the words yourself.
• "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
• "The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." – Dalai Lama
• "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." – John F. Kennedy
• "It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack." – Germany Kent
• "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." – Marcel Proust
• "The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings." – Henry Ward Beecher
• "Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." – W.J. Cameron
• "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." – Ernest Hemingway
• "Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life." – Albert Einstein
• "Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." – William Arthur Ward
• "Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow." – Edward Sandford Martin
• "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." – William Blake
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What should you write in a Thanksgiving card?
Sending a thoughtful card is a great idea when you can't make it to Thanksgiving dinner. But what should you write in a Thanksgiving card? If coming up with a special and unique message for relatives or friends is a challenge for you, then be thankful for the internet! Use these ideas to get started writing a sincere and personal message. I've also included tips for coming up with your own message. You can combine or change these ideas as needed to create a greeting that works for you.
Thanksgiving Message Examples
• May your belly be full and your heart full of joy!
• Besides the food, my friends and family are the most important part of a great Thanksgiving.
• I enjoy being with my favorite people on my favorite holiday.
• I'm thankful for people like you who give me a reason to be thankful.
• Thanksgiving is just one short moment of the year. I have 365 days to be grateful for my friends so dear.
• I'm mostly thankful for friends like you this Thanksgiving.
• I am wishing many blessings to you this Thanksgiving. May we all realize the most important things for which to give thanks.
• We have much to be thankful for in this family. Our family has been blessed. Happy Thanksgiving!
• I am very thankful for you and for the relationship that God has blessed us with. We have so much, and I look forward to many more blessings God has in store for us.
• I wish I could be with you this Thanksgiving. You'll be in my heart.
• Let's not forget our gracious Lord as we are counting our blessings.
• I hope you are blessed with many reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving.
• I am thankful for good friends like you.
• May you have an abundance of things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
• I am thankful for the excuse to see family like you at this time of the year.
Funny Messages
• "Happy Turkey Day!" said no turkey ever.
• The two best parts of Thanksgiving come after dinner: the nap and the leftovers.
• This is just a card, but you can't complain. It's Thanksgiving!
• I'm thankful that Thanksgiving comes only once a year. Too much of a good thing can be bad, like pumpkin pie or family.
• This year I'm thankful that I don't have to actually leave the house to do my Black Friday shopping.
• I've decided to be grateful instead of just thankful. I'm bringing some attitude to the Thanksgiving table.
• Thanksgiving is like a convention for gluttony. What a great American holiday!
• Remember the true meaning of Thanksgiving this year. It's the day before Black Friday!
• Instead of football games after Thanksgiving dinner, we should watch competitive eating.
• Two parts to Thanksgiving: the thanks part and the giving part. It's a cyclical mystery.
Thanksgiving Text Messages
• May your gathering be as fun as it is tasty!
• It's the best Thursday of the year!
• Thank goodness it's Thanksgiving!
• I hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving.
More Thanksgiving Sentiments
• I'm thankful for not having to sit at the "kid" table at Thanksgiving this year.
• What irony to have a holiday about being thankful right before the largest shopping day of the year.
• You are what you eat! That makes us all turkeys.
• After the gobble gobble comes the snooze snooze.
• Two things are always plentiful at Thanksgiving: food and family. I hope you get to enjoy at least one of the two.
• Without Thanksgiving, everyone would be in a bad mood at Christmas time. It's tough to be in a bad mood when you're well-fed and focused on being grateful.
• Let's take a moment of silence for all the turkeys on all the tables across the country. OK, that was long enough. Let's eat!
• I love the turkey. I love the pie. If I said I didn't love you as much as Thanksgiving, it would be a lie.
• At our Thanksgiving gathering, there's always a turkey in attendance. We also have a cooked bird on the table that we all eat.
Tips for Writing a Thanksgiving Card
• Make a list of things you are thankful for. Choose your top ten things and write them on your card.
• It might be a good idea to mention the person you are sending the card to as someone you are thankful for.
• Make a joke about eating too much, or turkey, or seeing family. These are the funny things about Thanksgiving that are OK to joke about.
• Make your Thanksgiving message part of a holiday message that includes Christmas and New Years too. This is a more efficient way to send out holiday cards.
Thanksgiving-Related Words to Use in Your Card
Use these words to begin writing. Once you get started, the rest of the message will probably come quickly and naturally!
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
gratitude
grateful
appreciate
holiday
happy
enjoy
turkey
delicious
eat
feast
abundant
enjoy
blessing
blessed
bless
family/friends
fun
surrounded
table
tasty
gathering
filled
celebrate
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I am thankful to be able to spend the holiday with my cousin, her husband and their friends. We have been blessed to spend many holidays together.
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