Gratitude For Work Quotes:

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Thankful, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, Basketball, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thank You

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

- Sam Walton

topic: Leadership, Praise, Sincere, Inspiring Business, Leadership Teamwork

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thank You, Social Good, Joy And Gratitude

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

- Plato

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Mind, Work Appreciation, Being Grateful For Life

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

- Wallace D. Wattles

topic: Thankful, Appreciation, Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude, Grateful For You

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.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Gratitude, Fall, Grateful, Joy And Gratitude, Spiritual Gratitude

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Roots, Joy And Gratitude, Work Appreciation

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

- John Wooden

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

- Willie Nelson

source: "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, 2006.

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Self Confidence, Being Blessed, Spiritual Gratitude

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

- James Allen

topic: Thank You, Appreciation, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Military

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

- Voltaire

topic: Appreciation, Morning, Light, Life Appreciation, Morning Light

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Importunate, Had A Great Time

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Thankful, Gratitude, Make Things Right, I Am Thankful

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

- Jacques Maritain

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Courtesy, I Am Thankful, Work Appreciation

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

topic: Grateful, Appreciate, Community, Spiritual Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

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

- Charles Dickens

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You, Being Blessed, Inspirational Gratitude

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

- Sam Walton

source: Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

topic: Appreciation, Appreciate, Team Building, Inspiring Business, Walmart

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

topic: Positive, Shortcuts, Grad, Go Hard, Inspirational Graduation

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, I Am Thankful, Grumbling

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

source: Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Two, Arlington, So Grateful

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

- Meister Eckhart

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thanksgiving, Prayer Changes Things, I Am Thankful

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

- Ralph Blum

topic: Gratitude, Joy, Quiet, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

- Henry Clay

topic: Thankful, Grateful, Heart, Thankful Heart, Love And Appreciation

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

- George Herbert

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful, Thankful Heart, So Grateful

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

- Wallace D. Wattles

topic: Gratitude, Advancement, Should, Spiritual Gratitude, Gratitude To God

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspiring, God, Religious, Work Appreciation, Friend Appreciation

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inner Life, I Am Thankful

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Thank You, Inspirational Gratitude, Inspirational Thanksgiving

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation, Inspirational Gratitude, Thankful Heart

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

- W. T. Purkiser

topic: Thanksgiving, Blessing, Use, Being Blessed, I Am Thankful

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Leadership, Gratitude, Appreciation, Taken For Granted, Question Mark

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1938). “Listen! the wind”, Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Thank You, Gratitude, Life Appreciation, Employee Appreciation

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Source Of Life, Inspirational Wisdom

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful, Individual Morality, Spiritual Gratitude

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude, Joy And Gratitude, Work Appreciation

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

- Rita Mae Brown

source: Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.20, Bantam

topic: Single, Gratitude, Grateful, Loss Loved One Inspirational, Love And Gratitude

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Life, Positive, Moving On, Inspirational Moving On, Live In The Now

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Thanksgiving Day, Life Appreciation