Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about 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

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.

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

Blum, Ralph H.

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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.

16.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Charles E. Jefferson

21.

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

John Bradford

22.

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

23.

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

Seneca

24.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Seneca

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Bennett, William John

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

34.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Stalin, Joseph

35.

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

Dylan, Bob

36.

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

37.

Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

38.

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

39.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

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

Carter, Elizabeth

47.

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.