Motivational Quotes

Gratitude

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

Best Quotes about Gratitude

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

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Blum, Ralph H.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

13.

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

Dylan, Bob

14.

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

17.

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

Traherne, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Parker, Dorothy

20.

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

21.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Demosthenes

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Stalin, Joseph

28.

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

Leach, Christopher

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

32.

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

33.

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

Faulkner, William

34.

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

35.

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

Cicero

36.

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

Carter, Elizabeth

37.

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

Bennett, William John

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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.

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

42.

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

John Bradford

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Proverb, French

48.

Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

49.

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

Seneca