Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

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

- Charles E. Jefferson

Best Quotes about Gratitude

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Traherne, Thomas

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Proverb, French

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Charles E. Jefferson

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

Blum, Ralph H.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Hull, Bobby

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

John Bradford

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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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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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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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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bennett, William John

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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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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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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 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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Stalin, Joseph

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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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

Cicero

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

Carter, Elizabeth

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Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

Ziglar, Zig

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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]

Bible

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Demosthenes

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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