Gratitude Quotes

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.

I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more.

Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here.

On this Thanksgiving, as we spend time with our family and friends, let's all reflect on what we're thankful for in our own lives. And let's remember those who cannot be with their loved ones because they're serving overseas. But let's also do our part to help those who have no place to go for a meal. I encourage all Americans to do what they can to help those in need-because the best way to show our gratitude for what we have is by doing our part for those who have less.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Thankfulness makes much of little.

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Look Upon Every Experience You've Ever Had ... as Having Been Sent to You for Your Benefit

Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.

Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former daysMeans more than gratitude for glories fled;For every noble man that she hath bred,Lives in the bronze and marble that we raise,Immortalised by art's immortal praise,To lead our sons as he our fathers led.

In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions.

Everything I need now is here

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

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

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

I don't believe in waiting for great feelings. I need to wire myself for positivity and gratitude. I need to build a highway to those.

Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what’s there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow.

It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

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.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would be more 'thankful' to them.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.

Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.

I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.

For this relief, much thanks

Life I love you, all is groovy.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Life's greatest reward is life itself

Gratitude is the most important attitude.

Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you're grateful for.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.