Gratitude Quotes

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.

Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.

Gratitude is the smile of love.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

There is no joy without gratitude.

Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely inspired you.

As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special.

Praise, or gratitude, is love or faith in action.

Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

The best way of become forgiving is to feel gratitude.

A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.