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Gratitude Quotes


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


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


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


"I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost."


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


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


"The pondering heart is a thankful heart."


"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."


"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."


"A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance."


"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'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."


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


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


"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."



"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."


"Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am blessed. I can bless. Imagine! I could let Him make me the gift! I could be the joy!"


"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."


"If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today."


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


"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."


"I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it."


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


"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."
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