83 Gratitude quotes that inspire a feeling of thankfulness

83 Gratitude quotes that inspire a feeling of thankfulness. Here are the best gratitude quotes and sayings from the famous authors that you can read to learn more about gratitude that will inspire you as well. Gratitude is defined as the quality of being thankful, appreciative, and returning the kindness that is received. There are many benefits of gratitude, you can turn strangers into friends, resolve any misunderstandings, and it brings a peaceful feeling in the hearts of every person. May these quotes about gratitude and thankfulness help you to get the inspiration that you need to appreciate even the smallest positive acts we get from others. There are so many things in life to be thankful for, always have a positive mindset towards everything. Share these inspirational gratitude quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones.

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. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. - Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

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. Gratitude is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel. It elevates our moods and fills us with joy. - Sara Avant Stover

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. Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. - Marianne Williamson

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. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. - Eckhart Tolle

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. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. - Henry Ward Beecher

23. Gratitude is from the same root word as grace, which signifies the free and boundless mercy of God. - Anonymous

24. Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude. - Deepak Chopra

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. The struggle ends when gratitude begins. - Neale Donald Walsch

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. 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. A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. - James E. Faust

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

63. Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. - Zig Ziglar

64. Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it. - Tom Hopkins

65. Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things. - Rhonda Byrne

66. Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. - Edward Wood

67. Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it. - Stephen Richards

68. Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes. - Sri Chinmoy

69. Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

70. When gratitude becomes an essential foundation in our lives, miracles start to appear everywhere. - Emmanuel Dalgher

71. Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors. - Richelle E. Goodrich

72. It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything. - Pharrell Williams

73. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. - Henri Frederic Amiel

74. Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. - Brian Tracy

75. Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. - Lionel Hampton

76. At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. - Albert Schweitzer

77. Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible. - Anonymous

78. I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy. - Will Arnett

79. If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. - Gerald Good

80. Gratitude unlocks all that’s blocking us from really feeling truthful, really feeling authentic and vulnerable and happy. - Gabrielle Bernstein

81. When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. - Kristin Armstrong

82. Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. - Randy Rausch

83. It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness. - Anonymous