#Appreciation Quotes

“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“The prize of all too precious you.”

“The present eye praises the present object.”

“The poorest service is repaid with thanks.”

“Love that well which thou must leave ere long.”

“Good things should be praised.”

“The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.”

“I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.”

“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.”

“Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.”

“The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.”

“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”

“Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”

“Beauty within itself should not be wasted.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?”

“For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”

“The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.”

“Each moment of the year has its own beauty.”

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”

“I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.”

“The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.”

“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”

“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.”

“Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see.”

“Nature will not be admired by proxy.”

“A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.”

“I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."”

“Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?”

“Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.”

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”

“For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.”

“Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.”

“Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.”

“Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.”

“Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.”

“Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.”

“If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.”

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.”

“It was pretty good. Even the music was nice.”

“I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.”

“If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.”

“I guess I've got a smart wife.”

“The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.”

“The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.”

“Everything we look upon is blest.”

“Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.”

“I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.”