Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

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

Best Quotes about Gratitude

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Carter, Elizabeth

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

Ziglar, Zig

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Seneca

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Proverb, French

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Stalin, Joseph

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

Demosthenes

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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

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I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. [Twelfth Night]

Shakespeare, William

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

Blum, Ralph H.

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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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

Charles E. Jefferson

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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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One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Faulkner, William

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

Bennett, William John

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

John Bradford

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

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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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Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Leach, Christopher

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

Beecher, Henry Ward