Gratitude Quotes

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

When in doubt, always choose love & gratitude.

Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude.

a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.

Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

Going for a walk is always helpful for me. I also love gratitude exercises.

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

My redeemer is always the person next to me.

Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.

For me, gratitude only brings positivity. As simplified as it sounds, I think that is key.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

God's foremost treasure on earth Is my ever-blossoming Gratitude-heart.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

It pays to be content with your lot.

I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my sense of humor gets me through a lot.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

True gratitude can never come From the mind. It has to flow from the heart To the mind, vital and body Until everything that we have and are Is a sea of gratitude.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.