Gratitude Quotes

The best place to begin is always with gratitude.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

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.

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

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

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

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

The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

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

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

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.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor to liberate, but to observe.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

Let today be THE day.

You must allow yourself to start thinking BIGGER and acting BOLDER with regards to what's possible for you. Seriously. Don't wait. Start now.

To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).