Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

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

- Charles E. Jefferson

Best Quotes about Gratitude

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Leach, Christopher

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Cicero

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Charles E. Jefferson

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

Milloy, Courtland

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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 a sickness suffered by dogs.

Stalin, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

John Bradford

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Bennett, William John

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

Blum, Ralph H.

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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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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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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

38.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

Ziglar, Zig

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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Carter, Elizabeth

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Beecher, Henry Ward