quotes about Being Thankful
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley (2013). “Cowley's Essays”, p.114, Cambridge University Press
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Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
-- Aesop -
Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
-- Al JarreauSource : "Dwayne Johnson Talks Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.
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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
-- Alice Walker -
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I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.
-- Andie MacDowell -
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
-- Anthony Trollope -
If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
-- Arsenie Boca -
I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.
-- Bella Thorne -
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Strive to find things to be thankful for and just look for the good in who you are!
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought.
-- Bob Proctor -
Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
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The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
-- Chadwick BosemanSource : Source: www.gq.com
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There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.
-- Charles E. McKenzie -
One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
-- Charles Kettering -
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
-- Charles Lamb -
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One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day.
-- Colin Morgan -
It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
-- Cornelius PlantingaSource : Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
-- Craig Ferguson -
When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
-- Dale Carnegie -
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It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.
-- Daniel Defoe -
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.
-- Daniel Defoe -
It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.
-- David Jeremiah -
You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.
-- David Levithan -
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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.
-- Dr. Seuss -
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!
-- Elif Safak -
If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. Once you achieve that stage, however, be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses.
-- Elif SafakSource : "Changing My Mind, Among Others". Book by Timothy Leary, 1982.
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.
-- Fatima Siad -
Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.
-- Frank Bettger -
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson -
Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
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Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.
-- Ivan Panin -
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
-- Izaak Walton -
Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.
-- James Russell Lowell -
My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.
-- Jenna Morasca -
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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
-- Jim Lovell -
You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.
-- Joel Osteen -
The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.
-- John Baillie -
Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.
-- John Frusciante -
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Being thankful for life itself is a way of making life better. When we look away from our problems, even for a short time, and generate joy in our hearts, we find that the world seems to change a bit.
-- John Harricharan -
Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.
-- John Templeton -
Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
-- Joseph Gordon-LevittSource : "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.
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For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
-- Joseph Hall -
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I would like to suggest that what my accusers have been pleased to call the peace of the Church is more properly called the sleepiness of the Church and we should be thankful to God that it has been disturbed.
-- Lloyd Geering -
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.
-- Lynn Flewelling -
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
-- Margaret Mead -
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So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
-- Marian Wright Edelman -
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
-- Mark Twain -
Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.
-- Matt Chandler -
Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.
-- Michael Keaton -
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A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.
-- Michael Newdow -
Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.
-- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild -
The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
When you realize that someone doesn't like you, don't dwell on it. You do not need everyone to like you. Anyone who feels they need to be liked by everyone likely doesn't realize how exhausting this would be if it were to actually happen. Be thankful that there are those who want to ignore you. There is only one you. Charge admission.
-- Nick Burd -
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Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.
-- Nick VujicicSource : FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from May 10, 2016
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I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have
-- Nick Vujicic -
We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.
-- Oren Lyons -
If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!
-- Patch Adams -
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My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'
-- Phil Robertson -
Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.
-- Ralph Marston -
I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.
-- Reba McEntire -
Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).
-- Richard L. Evans -
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
-- Richard Pryor -
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime and give thanks for it, it will soon be increased. If we resent our position and dwell upon what we lack, that is exactly what we get back.
-- Robert ScheidSource : Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”
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Take it and be thankful.
-- Robin Jones GunnSource : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Peculiar Treasures”, p.138, Harper Collins
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
-- Seneca the Elder -
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.
-- Shams Tabrizi -
Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.
-- T.I.Source : Song: Live Your Life
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If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.
-- Terry Taylor -
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Church membership is a gift. A gift must be treasured. It should not be taken for granted or considered lightly. Because it is a gift, we must always be thankful for it. And when we are thankful for something, we have less time and energy to be negative...Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.
-- Thom S. Rainer -
There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.
-- Thomas Brooks -
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
-- Thomas EakinsSource : Henry Adams, Thomas Eakins (2005). “Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist”, p.150, Oxford University Press on Demand
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I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!
-- Tracy AndersonSource : "Madonna's personal trainer Tracy Anderson says she'll never let her get fat". www.mirror.co.uk. January 16, 2009.
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Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience.
-- Wally Amos -
Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
-- Wayne Thiebaud -
And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
-- Wendell Berry -
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At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances...
-- William Braxton IrvineSource : "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Book by William Braxton Irvine, October 7, 2008.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
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Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.
-- Willy BrandtSource : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”
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I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective.
-- Allen Evangelista -
Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.
-- Carlos Salinas -
I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.
-- DeLisha Milton-Jones -
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I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them.
-- Jeremy ScottSource : Source: www.elle.com
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There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
-- Jillian Mayer -
Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.
-- Jose ParlaSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.
-- Lorena Ochoa -