Things To Be Thankful Quotes:

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

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

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

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

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: "The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Co., (p. 44), 1950.

topic: Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude, One Man, Express Appreciation

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

- Robert Breault

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Thankful Heart, Daily Gratitude

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

- Horace

topic: Gratitude, Common, Hungry, Inspirational Gratitude, Funny Thanksgiving Day

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

- Seneca the Younger

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

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

- Bertolt Brecht

source: Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.50, Grove Press

topic: Life, Gratitude, Sadness, Clovers, Thank You Gratitude

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

- Jim Lovell

topic: Jobs, Being Thankful, Might, I Am Thankful, Things To Be Thankful

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

- Gautama Buddha

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

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

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

- Dan Buettner

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Gratitude And Appreciation, Showing Gratitude

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation, Took For Granted, Taking Things For Granted

Strive to find things to be thankful for and just look for the good in who you are!

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Being Thankful, Looks, Strive, Things To Be Thankful

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Live Life, Joy And 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

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

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

- Albert C. Barnes

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankful, Dark, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Gratitude, Being Blessed, Joy And Gratitude

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1850). “Beauties of George Herbert: with Selections from “The Synagogue.””, p.14

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude, Thanksgiving Day

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

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

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Thanks, Form, Being Blessed, Social Good, Joy And Gratitude

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.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Daily Gratitude

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

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

... 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

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

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

- Epicurus

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Philosophy, Inspirational 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

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

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

- H. L. Mencken

source: "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Freedom, Always Be Thankful, Thankfulness And Gratitude

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

- Robert Breault

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Being Blessed, Live Life To Its Fullest

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

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

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

topic: Thinking, Law, Government, Things To Be Thankful