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Gratitude Quotes


"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."


"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South."


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


"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."


"On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver."


"Percy: "You asked Poseidon for" me? Tyson: "For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive." Percy: "But that's so cruel! Tyson: "Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes--" Percy: "The scars on your back? Tyson: "Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I prayed to Daddy for help. Soon the people at Meriwether found me. Mey you. Biggest blessing ever. Sorry I said Poseidon was mean. He sent me a brother."


"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."


"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."


"It's so tempting to resist a little gift when you're expecting the otherwise."



"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."


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


"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude."


"Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits."


"With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty."


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


"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present."


"You cannot appreciate God without appreciating people."


"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."


"Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood."


"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."


"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."


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


"Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next."


"The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency."


"Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you, you'll see yourself doing amazingly!"


"We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people."


"Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security."
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