Gratitude Quotes

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Every day is a good day. Your every-day mind - that is the Way!

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.

A gratitude-heart Is to discover on earth A Heaven-delivered rose

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster.

When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.