Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

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

Best Quotes about Gratitude

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

Dylan, Bob

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Bennett, William John

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.

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Charles E. Jefferson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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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 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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Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Stalin, Joseph

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

Seneca

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

Faulkner, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Cage, Nicolas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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