Gratitude Quotes

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Accept the children the way we accept trees"”with gratitude, because they are a blessing"”but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

There is always something to be grateful for. Pure love has no conditions or boundaries. Love does not restrain itself or hold back. Love gives all the time and doesn't ask for anything in return. Love is a continuous flow without any limits. And all of this is inside you.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally 'count our blessings,' give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I'm learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this is because we haven't quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have LOVE, gratitude, acceptance and compassion.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.