Quotations about Gratitude

Quotations about Gratitude




For each new morning with its light,


For rest and shelter of the night,


For health and food, for love and friends,


For everything Thy goodness sends.


~Ralph Waldo Emerson






If you have lived, take thankfully the past.


~John Dryden





When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?


~G.K. Chesterton





The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.


~John E. Southard





As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.


~Adabella Radici





I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.


~G.K. Chesterton





You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.


~G.K. Chesterton




Praise the bridge that carried you over.


~George Colman





If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.


~Robert Quillen





He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.


~Epictetus





What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.


~Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924





Gratitude is the best attitude.


~Author Unknown





Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.


~W.T. Purkiser





We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.


~Will Carleton





We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.


~Thornton Wilder





Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.


~William Faulkner





If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.


~Gerald Good






Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.


~Estonian Proverb





Thou hast given so much to me,


Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;


Not thankful when it pleaseth me,


As if Thy blessings had spare days,


But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.


~George Herbert






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


~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition





Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.


~Henry Ward Beecher






Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.


~Thomas Fuller





There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.


~Joseph Addison






I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.


~Benjamin Disraeli





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


~Henry Clay




Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.


~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld





Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.


~Aldous Huxley





When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.


~Chinese Proverb





Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.


~Ovid





In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.


~H.L. Mencken





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


~William Arthur Ward





Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.


~Author Unknown




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


~William A. Ward





The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.


~H.U. Westermayer





Gratitude is the memory of the heart.


~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French





Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.


~G.B. Stern





If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.


~Meister Eckhart




When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?


~George Canning





As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.


~John Fitzgerald Kennedy





We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.


~Cynthia Ozick





Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.


~Horace





The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.


~Robert South





Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.


~Verbena Woods






If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.


~Frank A. Clark





The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!


~Henry Ward Beecher





Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.


~Jackie Windspear