Gratitude Quotes

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.

Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

Express gratitude for what your spouse does for you. Express that love and gratitude often.

Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles.

Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

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.

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.

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.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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]

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

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

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.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

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

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

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

It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!

Always be grateful for your blessings, especially your heritage. When we are blessed with goodly parents, we should be grateful. This is the debt each of us owes for our heritage.

I pretty much always feel gratitude. I thank God throughout the day.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

Remain grateful for every outcome. Every outcome. Gratitude is the connecting energy to God.

Even our most difficult moments bring us gifts. The trick, of course, is gratitude. Therein will you find both your peace and your joy.

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.

Love is not enough; intelligence is not enough; powerful strength is not enough. You may put everything on one side of the scale, but if you are missing gratitude, you shall lose.

Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.