Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

- Bennett, William John

Best Quotes about Gratitude

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Dyer, Wayne

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Gracian, Baltasar

Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Faulkner, William

Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

Leach, Christopher

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

Dyke, Henry Van

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cicero

10.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Dickens, Charles

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Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Proverb, French

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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

Cage, Nicolas

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Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

Traherne, Thomas

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Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.

Parker, Dorothy

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Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Gaertner, Johannes A.

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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Seneca

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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Borysenko, Joan

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True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -

Hendrick, George R.

25.

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Taylor, Terry Lynn

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Einstein, Albert

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If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Clark, Frank A.

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Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

Ziglar, Zig

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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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There but for the grace of God go [I].

John Bradford

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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.

David Nicholls

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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Frankfurter, Felix

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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Bennett, William John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

Milloy, Courtland

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Dylan, Bob

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Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy.

Bhagavad Gita

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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

Blum, Ralph H.

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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Lowell, James Russell

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Christiane, Northrup

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Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. [Matthew]

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