Great Gratitude Quotes:

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

- Ralph Marston

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

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

- Alice Walker

topic: Gratitude, Prayer, Being Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude, Inspirational Thank You

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

An attitude of gratitude brings great things.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Gratitude, Attitude, Thankfulness, Love And Gratitude, Attitude Of Gratitude

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

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Secret, Thankful Gratitude, Thankfulness And Gratitude

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

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Thank You, Heaven, Earth, Inspirational Thank You, Thankful Heart

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

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Thankful, Spiritual, Grateful, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

- William Arthur Ward

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

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

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Gratitude, Courage, Attitude, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

- John Milton

source: "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.

topic: Gratitude, Forever, Everyday, Transcending, Thankful For You

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

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Social Good, Kindness Generosity

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Success, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Life Appreciation, Daily Gratitude

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

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Positive, Thank You, Thankful, Concentrating, Spiritual Blessings

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

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

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Optimistic, I Am Thankful, Thankful Heart

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

- Eileen Caddy

topic: Life, Happiness, Thank You, Joy And Gratitude, Spiritual Gratitude

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

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

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

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 fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Gratitude And Appreciation

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

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

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

- Epictetus

topic: Positive, Happiness, Thank You, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Christmas, Gratitude, Children, Christmas Time, Inspirational Holiday

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Life, Thanksgiving, Grateful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

- George Canning

source: George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Sleep, Thankful Heart, Veteran Appreciation

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Thank You, Uplifting, Thankful, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

- Eric Hoffer

source: "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

topic: Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation, Being Blessed, True Believer

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

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Gratitude, Kindness, Take Nothing For Granted, Spiritual Gratitude

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

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Wise, Joy And Gratitude, Inspirational Thank You

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation, Inspirational Gratitude, Love Gratitude

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Motivational, Thank You, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Sensations

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

- Joseph Addison

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Exercise, Thank You Gratitude, Great Gratitude

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

- A.J. Cronin

topic: Life, Smile, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Life Appreciation