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Gratitude Quotes


"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."


"We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world."



"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."


"An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from."


"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!"


"Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action."


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


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


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


"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."


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


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


"I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it."


"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."


"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."


"Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning."


"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."


"Thank the past for all the lessons it taught you, anticipate the future for all the blessings it has in store for you."


"You cannot appreciate God without appreciating people."


"Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust...Manna with thanks, eat the mystery of the moment with trust, and am nourished another day - or refuse it... and die. Jesus calls us to surrender and there's nothing like releasing fears and falling into peace. This is what I have always wanted and never knew: this utter trust, this enlivening fall of surrender into the safe hands. There is no joy without trust!"


"To all those who care, You can't forever. Time steals the years,And your reflection in the mirror.But I can still see the story in your eyes, And your timeless passion that's never died.While your skin became tired,Your heart became strong,The present became the past,And your memories like a song.And though the moment at hand is all that we have, You've taught me to live it like it is our last.Since two words don't say 'thank you' the way they are meant to,I'll try all my life to be something like you."


"Don't mistake keen, honest observations as complaints. When you receive a help, a donation or a favour, never forget to be grateful and thankful for the ones who have been there for you.Learn to respect the space of people whose hearts have been treated like a doormat but they have answered more important priorities which all contribute towards the best of the welfare of the recipients of their generous and humble commitment among their choices and decisions for whom and with whom to reach out for."


"Saying "thank you" signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability."


"If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well."


"Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses."


"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."


"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."


"Say "Thank You" because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that what ever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds."


"For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."


"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!"


"Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."


"Gratitude is a way of life. Gratitude is the way home."


"A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?"


"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."


"Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound."


"Gratitude goes beyond saying 'thank you'. Feelings complete the blessing."
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