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Gratitude Quotes


"The pondering heart is a thankful heart."


"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."


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


"We players understand we have the best lives in the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fans, everyone who supports us."


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



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


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


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


"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."


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


"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly."


"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."


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



"Every springI hear the thrush singingin the glowing woodshe is only passing through.His voice is deep,then he lifts it until it seemsto fall from the sky.I am thrilled.I am grateful.Then, by the end of morning,he's gone, nothing but silenceout of the treewhere he rested for a night.And this I find acceptable.Not enough is a poor life.But too much is, well, too much.Imagine Verdi or Mahlerevery day, all day.It would exhaust anyone."


"Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time."



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


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


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