Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Gratitude

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.

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Dickens, Charles

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Leach, Christopher

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

Milloy, Courtland

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Blum, Ralph H.

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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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Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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

Bennett, William John

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

Seneca

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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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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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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.