63 Famous quotes on gratitude and thankfulness. Here's our collection of gratitude quotes. Gratitude is a positive emotion of being thankful, showing appreciation by the recipient of kindness and other generosities from the giver. There are many benefits of gratitude in this world, you can turn strangers into friends, resolve any misunderstandings, and it brings joy and peace in the hearts of every person and to the world we live in.
1. Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women. - Gordon B. Hinckley
2. Learn to write your hurts in sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone! - Unknown
3. I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given. - Sandra Day O'Connor
4. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. - Buddha
5. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Aesop
7. Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. - William Faulkner
8. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens
9. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius
10. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy
11. A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. - Joseph Addison
12. Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. - Jacques Maritain
13. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. - Helen Keller
14. Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now, and then, somehow got everything back again.
15. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche
16. When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives. - Amy Vanderbilt
17. Feelings of gratitude release positive endorphins throughout the body, creating health. - Sharon Huffman
18. On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. - William Jennings Bryan
19. Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. - Zig Ziglar
20. If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. - Rabbi Harold Kushner
21. You were born rich, with 18 billion bountiful, beautiful, totally available and in all probability underused brain cells awaiting your desire, decision and directional compass to take you onward, upward, and Godward. - Mark Victor Hansen
22. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.--Eric Hoffer
23. Gratitude is from the same root word as grace, which signifies the free and boundless mercy of God. - Anonymous
24. 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
25. Teach me, Lord, to sing of your mercies. Turn my soul into a garden, where the flowers dance in the gentle breeze, praising you with their beauty. Let my soul be filled with beautiful virtues; let me be inspired by your Holy Spirit; let me praise you always. - Teresa of Avila
26. Silent gratitude isn't much good to anyone. - Gladys Browyn Stern
27. Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. - Albert Schweitzer
28. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
29. When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? - Sydney J. Harris
30. God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you? - William Arthur Ward
31. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes
32. An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. - Sir John Templeton
33. We never question whether something is fair when it's good. But when something bad happens, the first thing we say is, This isn't fair. - Rabbi Roy Walter
34. If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. - Oscar Wilde
35. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus
36. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. - William Arthur Ward
37. For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. - Johannes A. Gaertner
39. Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin
40. I've learned that if I don't celebrate the exquisiteness of each day that I've lost something I'll never get back. - Sally P. Karioth
41. 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
42. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. - A. J. Cronin
43. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward
44. Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude. - Marietta McCarty
45. Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank. - Christina Rossetti
46. Count your blessings and you'll lose count of your misfortunes - Jean Clervil
47. In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
48. For all that has been, thank you. For all that is to come, yes! Dag Hammarskjold Gratitude is heaven itself. - William Blake
49. The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for. - Zig Ziglar
50. Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks. - Thomas Goodwin
51. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. - Vicki Robin
52. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser
53. We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. - Cynthia Ozick
54. 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
55. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie
56. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
57. I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Brontë
58. The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be. - Amy Poehler
59. You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. - Sarah Ban Breathnack
60. Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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
61. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
62. We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. - Ellen Goodman
1. Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women. - Gordon B. Hinckley
2. Learn to write your hurts in sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone! - Unknown
3. I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given. - Sandra Day O'Connor
4. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. - Buddha
5. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Aesop
7. Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. - William Faulkner
8. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens
9. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius
10. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy
11. A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. - Joseph Addison
12. Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. - Jacques Maritain
13. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. - Helen Keller
14. Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now, and then, somehow got everything back again.
15. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche
16. When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives. - Amy Vanderbilt
17. Feelings of gratitude release positive endorphins throughout the body, creating health. - Sharon Huffman
18. On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. - William Jennings Bryan
19. Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. - Zig Ziglar
20. If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. - Rabbi Harold Kushner
21. You were born rich, with 18 billion bountiful, beautiful, totally available and in all probability underused brain cells awaiting your desire, decision and directional compass to take you onward, upward, and Godward. - Mark Victor Hansen
22. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.--Eric Hoffer
23. Gratitude is from the same root word as grace, which signifies the free and boundless mercy of God. - Anonymous
24. 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
25. Teach me, Lord, to sing of your mercies. Turn my soul into a garden, where the flowers dance in the gentle breeze, praising you with their beauty. Let my soul be filled with beautiful virtues; let me be inspired by your Holy Spirit; let me praise you always. - Teresa of Avila
26. Silent gratitude isn't much good to anyone. - Gladys Browyn Stern
27. Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. - Albert Schweitzer
28. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
29. When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? - Sydney J. Harris
30. God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you? - William Arthur Ward
31. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes
33. We never question whether something is fair when it's good. But when something bad happens, the first thing we say is, This isn't fair. - Rabbi Roy Walter
34. If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. - Oscar Wilde
35. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus
36. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. - William Arthur Ward
37. For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. - Johannes A. Gaertner
39. Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin
40. I've learned that if I don't celebrate the exquisiteness of each day that I've lost something I'll never get back. - Sally P. Karioth
41. 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
42. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. - A. J. Cronin
43. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward
44. Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude. - Marietta McCarty
45. Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank. - Christina Rossetti
46. Count your blessings and you'll lose count of your misfortunes - Jean Clervil
47. In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
48. For all that has been, thank you. For all that is to come, yes! Dag Hammarskjold Gratitude is heaven itself. - William Blake
49. The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for. - Zig Ziglar
50. Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks. - Thomas Goodwin
51. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. - Vicki Robin
52. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser
53. We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. - Cynthia Ozick
54. 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
56. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
57. I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Brontë
58. The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be. - Amy Poehler
59. You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. - Sarah Ban Breathnack
60. Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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
61. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
62. We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. - Ellen Goodman
63. Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. - Book of Common Prayer, 1928
63 Famous quotes on gratitude and thankfulness
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