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Gratitude Quotes


"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."



"I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude."


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


"Be grateful for the day and the day will be grateful for you. Stay positive and everything around you will respond in kind."


"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."


"All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better."


"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man."


"He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt."



"Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt."You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth."


"You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it."


"The pondering heart is a thankful heart."



"When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author."


"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not."


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


"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."


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


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


"HE TEN LEPERS: Handling ingratitude with disapproval-And Jesus Answer, were there not 10 cleansed but where are 9?"


"Very frequently, you should sit back and appreciate a lot of the small blessings in your life that most people take for granted. Doing so would give you the peace of mind that most people don't have."


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


"Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle. And who doesn't need a miracle like that everyday? Thanksgiving makes time. The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving creates abundance; and he miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks - ...it's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough. I am thank-full. I am time-full."


"Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude."


"Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened."


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


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


"Count your blessings, discount you're loses."


"Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there."


"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."


"I'm surrounding by beautiful sounds, my son singing in his room and a gentle rain. There are so many simple pleasures God gives us we just have to listen for them."


"People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it."


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