It is rooted in the human nature to crave appreciation; from familial relationships to romantic relationships and even to relationships in the workplace.
We all want to be recognized and appreciated for our effort, no matter how little and most times saying thank you and showing gratitude with messages – whether handwritten, verbal or typed – can make all the difference in our relationships. I hope you’re prompted by these quotes to appreciate or say a kind word to the people in your life today.
How Do You Express Your Gratitude?
Expressing gratitude makes people experience positive emotions as well as promotes their relationships with others. There are many ways to express gratitude; in words, a thank you note, in person, through a gift, or by your actions.
If someone helps you, there are several ways to express gratitude and show enthusiasm for the person’s actions. Being enthusiastic shows sincerity and the extent of your gratitude.
Be specific about what was done for you. It communicates how grateful you are and ensures the individual doesn’t get your appreciation mixed up or gets confused.
Writing a handwritten letter or note is another way of showing gratitude. Taking out time to craft a letter in this digital age shows how much you are grateful and they are not likely to forget such a meaningful gesture.
How Do You Express Your Gratitude In Words?
“Thank you” is one, if not, the most popular word used to express gratitude but sometimes it doesn’t express your heartfelt gratitude as you’d like it to, probably because it’s the most common way of doing that. There are other words you can use like; “I’m grateful, I appreciate, I’m thankful etc.
How Do You Express Gratitude In A Sentence?
Should you want to make your appreciation now pronounced, sentences like “I’m so thankful for your help”, “I’ll never forget what you’ve done for me”, “I can never repay your kindness”, “Words can’t express my thanks” can go a long way. These are example of sentences you can use to express your gratitude.
Gratitude Quotes
Gratitude quotes are not just for cards on special occasions. These quotes can help us realize why we should be appreciative/thankful and can be used to inspire a friend or two.
1. “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
2. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
3. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Anonymous
4 “Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” – Amy Collette
5. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
6. “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
7. “Happiness cannot be traveled to owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”- Denis Waitley
8. “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth
9. “No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
10. “In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
11. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
12. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
13. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” – Cynthia Ozick
14. “You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – Gilbert C. Chesterton
16. “Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” – Rhonda Byrne
17. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
18. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Buddha
19. “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
20. “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
21. “Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.” – Sri Chinmoy
22. “As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.” – James E. Faust
23. “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” – Mary Davis
24. “The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” – William James
25. “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” – Ralph H. Blum
26. “Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” – Jacques Maritain
27. “The root of joy is gratefulness.” – David Steindl-Rast
28. “I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
29. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
30. “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
31. “Being thankful is not always experienced as a natural state of existence, we must work at it, akin to a type of strength training for the heart.” – Larissa Gomez
32. “Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.” – Anonymous
33. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder
34. “If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” – Rabbi Harold Kushner
35. “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
36. “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
37. “I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.” – Amy Poehler
38. “Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity.” – Eckhart Tolle
39. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop
40. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward
41. “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
42. “Opening your eyes to more of the world around you can deeply enhance your gratitude practice.” – Derrick Carpenter
43. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
44. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” – Roy T. Bennett
45 “Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” – Albert Schweitzer
46. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day
47. “Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky
48. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” – Anthony Robbins
49. “What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” – Brene Brown
50. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G.K. Chesterton
51. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Aesop
52. “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou
53. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom that springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
54. “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was “thank you” that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart
55. ”Be thankful for the moments, the things you have, and the life you live.” – Wazim Shaw
56. “So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.” – Helen Keller (Remember that she was a deaf-blind person)
57. “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
58. “Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” – Jacques Maritain
59. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” – Henry David Thoreau
60. “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
61. “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” – Hansa proverb
62. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop
63. “The world gives you way more than you ever give it.” – Kamal Ravikant
64. “Gratitude is what you feel when you want what you already have.” – James Clear
65. “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” – James Allen
66. “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” – Gertrude Stein
67. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward
68. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou
69. “As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?” – Anne Frank
70. “In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
71. “Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.” – Miguel de Cervantes
72. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach
73. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” – Cynthia Ozick
74. “I thank everything because everything teaches me something.” – Maxime Lagacé
75. “Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Leroy Satchel Paige
76. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy
77. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” – Roy T. Bennett
78. “Meditate, relax and just “be” for a moment. Remember that this moment is perfect the way it is and you don’t need to change it.” – Maxime Lagacé
79. “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.” – Seneca
80. “Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself.” – Rumi
81. “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” – Seneca
82. “A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.” – Mason Cooley
83. “May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.” – Mahatma Gandhi
84. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G.K. Chesterton
85. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
86. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
87. “Hardship is a blessing when it spurs effort and development; ease is a curse when it increases complacency and self-indulgence.” Muso Kokushi
88. “The smallest act of kindness is worth than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde
89. “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” – Roy T. Bennett
90. “I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.” – Confucius
91. “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” – Jean Baptiste Massieu
92. “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” – William Faulkner
93. “Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.” – Marianne Williamson
94. “Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
95. “Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.” – Thomas Fuller
96. “Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
97. “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” – John Ortberg
98. “Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” – Confucius
99. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
100. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tellius Cicero
101. “The essence of all beautiful art is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
102. “Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
103. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Buddha
104. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
105. “The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” – William James
106. “Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.” – Zig Ziglar
107. “True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience”.” – Oprah Winfrey
108. “Ingratitude is monstrous.” – William Shakespeare
109. “Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.” – Confucius
110. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” – Tony Robbins
111. “What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” – Brené Brown
112. “Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude.” + Adam Smith
113. “Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.” – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
114. “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” – Yogi Bhajan
115. “Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.” – Baltasar Gracian
116. “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” – Paulo Coelho
117. “Find the good and praise it.” – Alex Haley
118. “Things must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
119. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi
120. “Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.” – Abraham Hicks
121. “If you have lived, take thankfully the past.” – John Dryden
122. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” – W. Clement Stone
123. “Ingratitude is treason to mankind.” – James Thomson
124. “May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe.” – Hafiz
125. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.” – Melody Beattie
126. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” – Thornton Wilder
127. “Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.” – Mason Cooley
128. “Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.” – Robert Braathe
129. “If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” – Robert Quillen
130. “If you don’t appreciate what you have, you may as well not have it.” – Rosalene Glickman
131. “True gratitude is silent rather than spoken.” – James Pierce
132. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire
133. “Gratitude makes you feel good and proud. Complaining makes you feel bad and miserable.” – Maxime Lagacé
134. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W.T. Purkiser
135. “It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.” – Helen Keller
136. “The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.” – Michael Josephson
137. “No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.” – Elie Wiesel
138. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” – Johannes A. Gaertner
139. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward
140. “Gratitude is a powerful emotion to use for manifesting because normally we feel gratitude after we receive something. So the emotional signature of gratitude means it has already happened.” – Joe Dispenza
141. “When you are thankful or you feel appreciation, you are in the ultimate state to receive. When you embrace gratitude, your body as the unconscious mind will begin to believe it is in that future reality in the present moment.” – Joe Dispenza
142. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.” – Epicurus
143. “Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
144. “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” – G. K. Chesterton
145. “Expressing gratitude is a natural state of being and reminds us that we are all connected.” – Valerie Elster
146. “You don’t get blessed, and feel blessed. You have to first feel blessed, then the blessings come to you.” – Roman Price
147. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” – William Blake
148. “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.” – Zig Ziglar
149. “There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.” – Richard Bach
150. “What may seem a curse may be a blessing, and what may be a blessing may be a curse.” – Muso Kokushi
151. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” – Maya Angelou
152. “Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” – Albert Schweitzer
153. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” – Rumi
154. “I am a grateful… grapefruit.” – Bjork
155. “My socks may not match, but my feet are always warm.” – Maureen McCullough
156. “Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.” – Joseph Stalin
157. “I can multitask like crazy. I’m riddled with ADD – a blessing and a curse.” – Glenn Beck
158. “Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks – I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” – Irving Berlin
159. “Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.” – Melody Beattie
160. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” – Eric Hoffer
161. “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen
162. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
163. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
164. “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
165. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens
166. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
167. “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
168. “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” – Gerald Good
169. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
170. “The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.” – Michael Josephson
171. “Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
172. “The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.” – Charles Schwab
173. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
174. “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
175. “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” – Gertrude Stein
176. “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.” – Unknown
177. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
178. “It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.” – Naomi Williams
179. “One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
180. “No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
181. “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” – A.A. Milne
182. “Forget yesterday–it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow–you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift–today.” – Steve Maraboli
183. “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.” – Neal A. Maxwell
184. “In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
185. “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” – John E. Southard
186. “I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.” – Mike Ericksen
187. “Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” – Stephen Richards
188. “They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.” – Tom Perrotta
189. “Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.” – Raheel Farooq
190. “Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.” – Tom Hopkins
191. “In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day–or to celebrate each special day.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
192. “This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou
193. “Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful” – Roy T. Bennett
194. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses” – Alphonse Karr
195. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed” – Maya Angelou
196. “When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful” – Roy T. Bennett
197. ”When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears” – Anthony Robbins
198. “Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess” – Steve Maraboli
199. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude” – Thornton Wilder
200. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving” – W. T. Purkiser
201. “Life is unpredictable, it changes along with every individual. Today you have and tomorrow you may not have, be thankful for the good that stays with you.” – Rashida Rowe
202. “Be thankful for the moments, the things you have, and the life you live.” – Wazim Shaw
203. “Understand your worth. Value your life. Appreciate your blessings.” – Anonymous
204. “I wake up every day with great appreciation for life and appreciation to play this game.” – Will Grier
205. “Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it’s the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.” – Liu Xiaobo
206. “Practice appreciation for who you are and what you have… and allow your life to unfold in the most amazing way.” – Millen Livis
207. “For one minute, walk outside, stand there, in silence. Look up at the sky and contemplate how amazing life is.” – Anonymous
208. “I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” – Anonymous
209. “The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.” – Robert Holden
210. “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
211. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” – Randy Pausch
212. “Gratitude is the appreciation of things that are not deserved, earned or demanded – those wonderful things that we take for granted.” – Renée
213. “Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky
214. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” – Johannes Gaertner
215. “To live a life fulfilled reflect on the things you have with gratitude.” – Jaren Davis
216. “Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” – Amy Collette
217. “What can you do right now to turn your life around? Gratitude” – The Secret
218. “Stop thinking gratitude as a buy product of your circumstances and start thinking of it as a world view” – Bryan Robles
219. “…it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” – David Steindl-Rast
220. “You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.” – Buddha
221. ”Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” – Rhonda Byrne
222. “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.” – Ellie Wiesel
223. “If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” – Rabbi Harold Kushner
224. “Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” – Albert Schweitzer
225. “As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.” – James E. Faust
226. “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
227. “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”- Ralph H. Blum
228. “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
229. “I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
230. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens
231. ”No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”- Alfred North Whitehead
232. “It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
233. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
234. “Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.” – Felix Frankfurter
235. “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
236. “There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.” – Kathe Kollwitz
237. “The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they’re very thankful. That’s one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.” – Brett Dennen
238. “No better words than “thank you” have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one’s heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.” – Alfred Armand Montapert
239. “A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.” – Wallace D. Wattles
Thank You Quotes
“Thank you” is one of the simplest ways of expressing gratitude. It’s often referred to as one of the magical words, probably due to the positive impact it has on the lives of others. Here are thank you quotes that will inspire you to say the words more often.
1. “Someday I will give back what you have given me. Thank You.”
2. “Every life is a story, thank you for being part of my story.”
3. “There are no words that can express my thanks for you. If words could be hugs I would send you pages.”
4. “I couldn’t find a card that expressed my gratitude the way I wanted. I need a card that gives you a big hug.”
5. “Time to say thank you, often forgotten, seldom spoken are those two little words, Thank you.”
6. “If the world had more people like you it would be a better place. You do make a difference.” – Catherine Pulsifer
7. “You have influenced my life in such a positive way words cannot express my appreciation. You are truly an inspiration.” – Catherine Pulsifer
8. “From the bottom of my heart, I thank you and appreciate all you have done. Your generosity has given me new hope” – Catherine Pulsifer
9. “Your guidance and patience no matter what I was doing has helped develop me into the person I am today, thank you!” – Catherine Pulsifer
10. “You changed my life without even trying, and I don’t think I could ever tell you how much you mean to me. I can’t imagine what things would be like if I hadn’t met you.” – Steve Maraboli
11. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy
12. “The truth is, not saying ‘thank you does more damage than actually saying ‘thank you’ does good.” – Tommy Wyatt
13. “…Saying thank you, or offering other words of appreciation, along with sincere compliments and other grateful or kind words are the best way to fortify relationships.” – Chris Johnston
14. “In the end, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
15. “If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else.” – Don Meyer
16. “When we start paying attention to the services we receive, stop and really see the person who is doing it and take the time to say thank you, our entire day will change.” – Brenda Shoshanna
17. “From young to old, there are two words that carry a person forth in grace and honor; please and thank you.” – Byron Pulsifer
18. “All my lifetime though, I’ll be thanking heaven for a special friend like you.” – Unknown
19. “So thank you so much for all your smiles, and for loving me each day. Life can be very tough but thankfully, I’ve got you to help shine my way.” – Julie Hebert
20. “Imagine when you die and get to heaven, you will encounter friends who say, “Thank you for investing in me. I’m in heaven because of you! I’m not your friend for life; I’m your friend for eternity.” – David Jeremiah
21. “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
22. ”You could’ve had anyone in the world, but you chose me. Thank you.” – Anthony T. Hincks
23. “Thank you for giving me everything without asking any in return. You are one of the best. Please stay always with me.” – Unknown
24. “There is one foundation in the world that no earthquake or tornado can shake – the love of my husband. Thanks.” – Unknown
25. “Thank you for being an important part of my story.” – Anonymous
26. “Saying thank you is more than good manners, it is good spirituality.” – Alfred Painter
27. “Thank you for always being there for me even when I’m being a pain in the rear.” – Anonymous
28. “Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go” – Nicholas Sparks
29. ”A little ” thank you” that you will say to someone for a “little favour” shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen “greater favours”. – Israelmore Ayivor
30. “One more thing, when they call you a bitch, say thank you. Say thank you, very much” – Olivia Gatwood
31. “You are part of my story, memory, and scenery, thank you” – Kim Taehyung
32. “Thank you to my plant friends who keep me company as I write. I am deeply grateful to share this cycle with you” – Hiromi Go-to
33. “Thank you for undusting my true colors” – Ahmed Mostafa
34. “Even though tomorrow will be dark for me, I thank you for trying to bring me to the light” – K. Weikel
35. “Thank you for helping me understand that there’s nothing wrong in loving darkness, in being quiet” – Nitya Prakash
36. “Thank you! …for sharing your childhood with me so I could experience all the joys that were missing in mine” – Ginny Toole
37. “As you start and end your day, say THANK YOU for every little thing in your life” – Vergi Crush
38. “Thank you is a good thought” – Lailah Gifty Akita
39. “End every single day with a thank you. For each day you have been given is not promised” – Christine E. Szymanski
40. ”Thank you for being fair, thank you for being forgiving thank you for being transparent, Thank you for being legal, Thank you for being hatred, Thank you for this time to listen…..Thank my life to give me chance” – Sonal Takalkar
41. “Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
– Alice Walker
42. “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
43. “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
44. “Thanks are the highest form of thought.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
45. “Well, there’s not a day goes by when I don’t get up and say thank you to somebody.” ~ Rod Stewart
46. “Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.” ~ Kurt Cobain
Gratitude Quotes To God
We have a million and more reasons to be grateful unto God but one of the biggest is for our lives. Let these gratitude quotes to God remind you to thank your creator.
1. “Oh, Lord! How can we thank You? For we have seen the light; We realize without You we are lost.” – Greta Zwaan
2. “Oh Lord I want to thank you for all your granted opportunities and privileges that allow me to experience a world filled with your beauty, and the varied experiences of life.” – Byron Pulsifer
3. “Thank you for your beautiful creation, for wind, rain, and sunshine, for the joy of friendship, the intimacy of marriage, the enjoyment of good and nourishing food. Let me never forget to thank you for all these joys” – Livingstone Corporation
4. “Thank you God for the day and the blessings it holds. Let your light shine through us this day and may we bless those who cross our path this day.” – Catherine Pulsifer
5. “O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.” – William Shakespeare
6. “So God, I cannot pen the thoughts of all Your love and care, far beyond my human power, but God! I’m glad you’re there!” – Greta Zwaan
7. “If our people could only see all this, they would stop grumbling about their own misfortunes and offer thanks to God for blessing them with such abundance.” – Unknown
8. “Find time to thank God for all the blessings you receive on a day to day basis.” – Steven Johnson
9. “God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.” – Ethel Watts Mumford
10. “There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.” – Helen Keller
11. “Thank you, God, for everything in my life. The good and the bad. Some were blessings and some were lessons.” – Anonymous
12. “It’s really nice to wake up in the morning realizing that God has given me another day to live. Thank you, God.” – Anonymous
13. “Thank you, dear God, for this good life, and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” – Garrison Keillor
14. “Thank you God for giving me the strength to keep going.” – Anonymous
15. “Thank you, God, for all your blessings to me and my family. For the strength, you give me each day and for all the people around me who make life more meaningful…” – Anonymous
16. “O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.” – William Shakespeare
17. “God thank you for keeping me together when I’m falling apart.” – Anonymous
18. “Sometimes I just look up, smile, and say, ‘I know that was you, God!’ Thanks!” – Anonymous
19. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say, ‘thank you’?” – William Arthur Ward
20. “Thank you God for blessing me much more than I deserve.” – Anonymous
21. ”God will make a way when there seems to be no way. Thank you God.” – Unknown
22. “What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.” – Joseph Hall
23. “Repeat the words “thank you God for everything” many times during the day” – Sanchita Pandey
24. “Say “Thank You” because your faith is so strong that you don’t doubt that whatever the problem, you’ll get through it. You’re saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.” – Oprah Winfrey
25 “A life of faith is a life of gratitude – it means a life in which I am willing to experience my complete dependence upon God and to praise and thank him unceasingly for the gift of being.” – Henri J. M. Nouwen
26. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you”?” – William Arthur Ward
27. “Do not waste a single breath with feelings of hate or jealousy. Instead, show gratitude and thank God for the beautiful life He has given you in knowing Christ.” – Pearl Little
28. “I’ve started to look at life differently. When you’re thanking God for every little you – every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water – you can’t help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.”– A.J. Jacobs
29. “Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.” – Thomas Merton
30. “To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.” – Thomas Merton
31. “Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.” – Billy Graham
32. “In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.” – Iyanla Vanzant
33. “Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” – Garrison Keillor
34. “Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty and opportunity you put into my life. And in all that I do, I shall seek to be a channel for your love.” – Susan Jeffers
35. “The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.” – Ezra Taft Benson
36. “Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.” – Thomas Merton
37. “A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.” – Charles Grandison Finney
38. “The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.” – Thomas Merton
39. “God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.” – Izaak Walton
40. “I thank you, God, for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” – E. E. Cummings
41. “If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.” – John Calvin
42. “What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.” – Joseph Hall
43. “Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.” – Mother Teresa
44. “Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices.” – Johann Cruger
45. “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.” – James Russell Lowell
46. “May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.” – Charles Spurgeon
47. “… because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” – Wallace D. Wattles
48. “A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.” – Timothy Keller
49. “Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!” – Henry Ward Beecher
50. “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington
51. “Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices; Who wondrous things hath done, In whom this world rejoices. Who, from our mother’s arms, Hath led us on our way, With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.” – Martin Rinkart
52. “Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.” – William Romaine
53. “In the spiritual life, the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant, and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.” – Sri Chinmoy
54. “God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.” – Albert Schweitzer
55. “Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.” – Mathew Staver
56. “Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world’s history.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
57. “If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.” – David Livingstone
58. “Today don’t beg, don’t ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.” ~ Paulo Coelho
59. “Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.” – Billy Graham
60. “Thank you, always say thank you; it’s the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.” – Maya Angelou
61. “God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, “Thank you, God,” is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz
62. “God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward assurance that he is in control, a peaceful certainty that your life is in His hands, a deep trust in His plan and purposes, and a thankful disposition, toward all that He allows.
He wants you to put your faith in Him, not in a timetable. He wants you to wait on Him and wait for Him. In His perfect way, He will put everything together, see to every detail… arrange every circumstance… and order every step to bring to pass what He has for you.” – Roy Lessin
63. “Dear God, please help me to love and value myself, and treat myself with loving care. Please help me to know that I deserve happiness (as we all do) and that I have the right to change my life in healthful ways. Thank you for supporting me as I stand in my power, strength, and love in my relationships and in my career, and for helping others to accept and support the changes that I need to make.” – Doreen Virtue
64. “Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you’re not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.” – Yasmin Mogahed
65. “Whenever an opportunity comes your way, challenge yourself to first thank God and then quickly follow up with the question, “God, who else is supposed to be blessed by this connection or opportunity?” – Lysa TerKeurst
66. “Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.” – Joel Osteen
67. “Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.” – Samuel Logan Brengle
68. “Every morning I wake up, it’s kind of like wow, I don’t know what happened or how it happened, I can’t put my finger on it, but I’m grateful. I’m grateful to be alive. To spend one more day with my family. One more day to make my dreams become a reality. One more day to help somebody. So the first thought on my mind is, thank you God for another day.” – Eric Thomas
69. “When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.” – Helen Steiner Rice
70. “It’s no wonder, that God’s anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude. The anxious heart says, “Lord if only I had this, that, or the other, I’d be okay.” The grateful heart says, “Oh, look! You’ve already given me this, that, and the other. Thank you, God.” – Max Lucado
71. “Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.” – T. B. Joshua
72. “Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!” – Henry Ward Beecher
73. “Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay because I think if I hadn’t, they’d spit on me in the street.” – Hugh Jackman
74. “Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t. But that isn’t it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you, God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.” – Lauren Oliver
75. “I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.” – Thomas Hearns
76. “You know what, I’m probably one of the most blessed people there’s ever been, and I thank God for it.” – Smokey Robinson
77. “Thank you, God, for bringing me success in my life.” – Neale Donald Walsch
78. “I don’t paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn’t bother about things like that.” – Alice Neel
79. “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.” – Frederick Buechner
80. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” – George S. Patton
81. “Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I’d be now.” – Patricia Velasquez
82. “Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign “thank you, God.” – Max Lucado
83. “The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, “Thank you, God,” is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz
84. “I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
85. “To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him.
Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with…to sing to you and the daffodils.” – Joan Baez
86. “We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.” – Nikolai Gogol
87. “Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.” – Samuel ibn Naghrillah
88. “I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.” – William Banting
89. “When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.” – Dean Rusk
90. “Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can’t be taken from us. The only thing we really own.” – Marjorie Holmes
91. “Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also, let’s face it, it turns out I’m black. And I’m having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.” – Whoopi Goldberg
92. “I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.” – Ben Stein
93. “Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.” – Alfred Agache
94. “Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” – Albert Schweitzer
95. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” – Henry Allen Ironside
96. “Worship comes from a thankful heart.” – Chris Tomlin
97. “The beginning of men’s rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.” – Francis Schaeffer
98. “It does not matter what your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your situation has not changed, you begin to change. The key that unlocks the gates of heaven is a thankful heart. Entrance into the courts of God comes as you simply begin to praise the Lord.” – Francis Frangipane
99. “We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.” – Francis Frangipane
100. “The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.” – David Jeremiah
I Am Grateful Quotes
Gratefulness is a virtue everyone should have. Not only does it make you and others happier, but it also attracts bigger and better things. These I am grateful quotes talk about what other individuals are grateful for, it will also remind you of things you should continually be thankful for
1. “Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.” – Dennis Prager
2. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou
3. “The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.” – Richard Carlson
4. ”Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.”
– Zig Ziglar
5. ”Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” – Roy T. Bennett
6. “I’m grateful always for this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.”- Eckhart Tolle
7. “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” – Mary Davis
8. “What you truly acknowledge truly is yours. Invite your heart to be grateful and your ‘thank you’s’ will be heard even when you don’t use words.” – Pavithra Mehta
9. “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.” – Plato
10. “Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing… a grateful heart!” – George Herbert
11. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
12. “In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” – Albert Clarke
13. “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
14. “Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human.” – Meredith Grey
15. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
16. ”Instead of being impatient because you have to wait for something, be grateful for the extra time you have now to notice and appreciate your surroundings.”
– Danielle Tinning
17. “The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.” – Oprah Winfrey
18. “It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.” – Joseph Cook
19. “Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.” – Maya Angelou
20. “I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” – Maya Angelou
21. “Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. Breathing out, I smile. Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day. Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day.” – Nhat Hanh
22. “But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.” – Elizabeth Edwards
23. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.” – Henry David Thoreau
24. “Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
25. “There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.” – Reginald Horace Blyth
26. “Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.” – Carrie Newcomer
27. “I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.” – Kayla Mueller
28. “The groove is so mysterious. We’re born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.” – Lynda Barry
29. “I am grateful for the idea that has used me.” – Alfred Adler
30. “I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don’t have. Your troubles don’t care but it makes a huge difference in your life.” – Michael Josephson
31. “I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!” – Rainer Maria Rilke
32. “Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.” – Aleksandr Karelin
33. “The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork. those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.” – John Constable
34. “There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.” – Zhuangzi
35. “Two of my favorite phrases to repeat to myself daily are ‘Life is perfect’ and ‘I am grateful’. The more I do, the better I feel. Try it for yourself!” – Hal Elrod
36. “I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.” – Jessye Norman
37. “I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.” – John C. Maxwell
38. “I will search for hidden talents that I didn’t know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.” – Horace Silver
39. “Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on ‘Two and a Half Men’ with whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.” – Angus T. Jones
40. “I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of our nation’s young people. I encourage you to continue to support programs that help children to discover their talents and believe in themselves.” – Hillary Clinton
41. “I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.” – Liu Yang
42. “I am grateful to life. And also to the people who have brought me here. Without them, I could not be where I am now.” – Novak Djokovic
43. “I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit’s flames.” – Rod Stryker
44. “I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.” – Nathan East
45. “I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and through the technological revolution and brought us to the gateway of the renewable energy revolution, or what I call the sunlight revolution. But that is where we must part ways. It’s the natural order.” – Mark Ruffalo
46. “I assume most people trust me, if they vote for me in elections. And it is the most important thing. It places great responsibility on me, immense responsibility. I am grateful to the people for that trust, but I surely feel great responsibility for what I do and for the result of my work.” – Vladimir Putin
47. “I am grateful for the 30 years of my work and the way it has influenced humanity, especially all the books that became international bestsellers and were translated into 37 different languages, which means they have gone all around the world.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz
48. “I think in the end, I want to make sure that my kids come out of this thing on the other end in one piece. But I also know that that’s how the rest of the country feels as well, so for that I am grateful.” – Michelle Obama
49. “I have done here on earth that was necessary to be done, no matter what my expression or application and now I continue to live here in the dimensions where I’m experiencing/expressing a deeper level of understanding and awareness of my reason and purpose here on earth, which is wonderful and for which I am grateful for.” – Timothy Treadwell
50. “Clearly, something I am grateful for today is that my father had the strength to recognize and tell me about his activities instead of selling me a fabricated story. I think that helped us build a relationship based on trust.” – Juan Pablo Escobar
51. “I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling.” – Steve Daines
52. “I don’t want to torture anything. It’s about trying to live a life where I’m not contributing to the cruelty in the world… While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.” – Jessica Chastain
53. “As a kid, I succumbed to peer pressure; I created an image of myself that was not true. But that belief system ended with the death of a close friend. It was then that I reached out for help from my father. It wasn’t the teachings of The Four Agreements exactly, it was just my father’s teachings in general. And because of this, I am grateful to continue my family’s legacy. In this way, I say “thank you” to my family and teachers before me.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz
54. “I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square – but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.” – Jacob M. Appel
55. “What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
56. “I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didnt have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev – tantrums and all.” – Marissa Jaret Winokur
57. “I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have.” – James Franco
58. “I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it’s not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to the cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.” – Om Puri
59. “Some things aren’t to my taste and I wish they wouldn’t have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment.” – John Assaraf
60. “The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don’t have a family, then what does it mean?” – Martha Williamson
61. “I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us, there is a little of all of us.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg
62. “As I age I am grateful to find that silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
63. “I am grateful for all the military families that I’ve met. I wanted to spread hope and cheer to all; little did I know that they would be the ones to change my life the way they have!” – Wynonna Judd
64. “I’ve been very fortunate and I am grateful.” – Scott Baio
65. “The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty. That means trying to make sure I look people in the eye when I meet them. Sometimes you jump in a taxi, or maybe you only have two minutes with someone, and you never see them again. I try to always look them in the eye and have a real experience of what it is to communicate with someone.” – Jessica Chastain
66. “One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.” – James E. Faust
67. “I am technically “boss” of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically – that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since – that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.” – Mark Twain
68. “I am grateful for – though I can’t keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.” – A. R. Ammons
69. “I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?” – Anne Frank
70. “I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
71. “Of course I am grateful, and I’m sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage,” Bill said politely, “But I have my own wine cellar.” – Charlaine Harris
72. “I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn’t hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.” – William Saroyan
73. “Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours.” – Tina Fey
74. “In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead, I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I don’t have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.” – Goo Hye Sun
75. “I am grateful to learn from their mistakes because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, ‘Oh God if you only know how much older you look.’ They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won’t let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.” – Jennifer Aniston
76. “For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don’t look for an answer, because I don’t think there is one. I’m very glad to be the bearer of a question.” – P. L. Travers
77. “The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.” – Jim Abbott
78. “God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.” – Martha Reeves
79. “I like money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it with joy, and it returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very good. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind.” – Joseph Murphy
80. “I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” – Henry David Thoreau
81. “Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.” – Gunter Grass
82. “I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another’s suffering.” – Zoe Weil
83. “My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.” – Jim Lehrer
84. “I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.” – Cornelia Fort
85. “I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.” – Marlee Matlin
86. “I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.” – Marilynne Robinson
87. “I am grateful for the emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first, it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
88. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years and exhaust it.
How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.” – Henry David Thoreau
89. “My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.” – Brigitte Bardot
90. “The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don’t quit. I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You’ve got to kick fear to the side because the payoff is huge.” – Mariska Hargitay
91. “Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.” – Bram Stoker
92. “I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.” – Mother Teresa
93. “I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.” – Mariska Hargitay
94. “I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip.” – Roger Ebert
95. “I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder, and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting.” – Roger Ebert
96. “I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses because they only made me work harder.” – Muhammad Ali
97. “I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.” – Oprah Winfrey
98. “I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.” – Louise Hay
99. “The work these brave men and women do is extremely important, not only to our nation but to all the countries that our troops are stationed at around the world. I am grateful to the USO for having us and to all the troops who shared their day with us.” – Zakk Wylde
100. “Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!” – Michael Moore
Love And Gratitude Quotes
Showing gratitude for the good things in life is important, more important is expressing gratitude to the loved ones in your life.
We all want to be appreciated, and the importance of gratitude in relationships can never be over-emphasized. These love and gratitude quotes will motivate you to express profound gratitude to the persons in your life who really matter.
1. ”The mind is like a flower. It does not bloom without the lights of appreciation, encouragement, and love.” – Debasish Mridha
2. “Love those who appreciate you, and appreciate those who love you.” – Connor Chalfant
3. “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
4. “The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.” – Henri Nouwen
5. “For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.” – Elie Wiesel
6. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca the Younger
7. “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” – James Herriot
8. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy
9. “Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.” – Albert Schweitzer
10. “… because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” – Wallace D. Wattles
11. “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
12. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.” – Marcel Proust
13. “I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold – that’s ego. Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.'” – Maya Angelou
14. “I live in a loving, abundant, harmonious universe, and I am grateful.” – Louise Hay
15. “The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.” – Brené Brown
16. “Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.” – Judith Orloff
17. “Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” – Herman Melville
18. “Express gratitude for what your spouse does for you. Express that love and gratitude often.” – Richard G. Scott
19. “That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension–but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!” – Dave Hunt
20. “Before you eat food or drink water, look at what you’re about to eat or drink and feel love and gratitude. Make sure your conversations are positive when you are sitting down to a meal.” – Rhonda Byrne
21. “It’s likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature show this to be true.” – Masaru Emoto
22. “The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence…The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and gratitude in a way no words can.” – Ina May Gaskin
23. “I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it–not just mother love, but the love for one’s parents, for one’s husband, and for one’s children. I’ve experienced the other types of love–pity love, respectful love, and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn’t value the most important love–deep-heart love.” – Lisa See
24. ” The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.” – Henry Cloud
25. “The law demands good works and uses its terror–rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.–as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis–not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.” – Richard Jordan
26. “Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.” – Melanie Klein
27. “I have heard of bloggers who don’t accept awards. I accept them with open arms…why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.” – Katherine Jenkins
28. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
29. “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
30. “Love and gratitude can part seas… It can move mountains and it can create miracles. The power of love and gratitude will dissolve all negativity in our lives no matter what the form has taken.” – Rhonda Byrne
31. “If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ’s love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.” – Angela of Foligno
32. “Love and gratitude’ are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.” – Masaru Emoto
33. “Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness.” – Mata Amritanandamayi
34. “Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love, and gratitude – emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation – even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.” – Dacher Keltner
35. “Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.” – Richard G. Scott
36. “You just send your love and gratitude to everything that came through the experience and you wish it the best. If you don’t wish it the best, then you’re only holding on to its failure, you’re only holding on to something that needs something from you, whereas if you wish it the best, it’s not about you anymore.” – Jason Mraz
37. “For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.” – Therese of Lisieux
38. “With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot… I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.” – George Washington
39. “The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardor of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.” ~ Jonathan Edwards
Gratitude Quotes For Friends
Good friends play positive roles in our lives and are often our support systems apart from family. It’s about time we appreciate our friends for their roles in our lives. Let these gratitude quotes for friends motivate you to do that
1. “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
2. “Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.” – Albert Schweitzer
3. “One of the surest evidence of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
4. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca the Younger
5. “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.” – Douglas Pagels
6. “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini
8. “Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.” – Art Linkletter
9. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
10. “Thanks are the highest form of thought.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Grateful Heart Quotes
Being thankful never goes out of style. These grateful heart quotes will inspire you to cultivate an appreciative character right where all emotions begin, in your heart.
1. “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.” – Zig Ziglar
2. “Count your blessings. A grateful heart attracts more joy, love, and prosperity.” – Cheryl Richardson
3. “A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.” – Maya Angelou
4. “Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.” – Henry Ward Beecher
5. “Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You’re alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.” – Eleanor Brown
6. “Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing… a grateful heart!” – George Herbert
7. “The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.” – Pete Wilson
10. “Whatever you are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
11. “A grateful heart … comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.” – Thomas S. Monson
12. “The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.” – Paul Tillich
13. “Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.” – Teresa of Avila
14. “Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.” – Michael Josephson
15. “To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.” – John Ortberg
16. “We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.” – William Mackergo Taylor
17. “Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.” – Christina Rossetti
18. “The most interesting people I know drink in life and savor every drop-the sweet and the sour. The good and the bad. The planned and the unplanned… Right in the midst of what seems to me to be a detour from the map, I’m often gifted with something precious and unforgettable. Capturing the moment is a choice, a way of life. It requires us to wake up, live life, and be present here, there, and everywhere. Sometimes that’s scary; sometimes it’s exhilarating. Always, it’s an adventure I keep learning to welcome with a full and grateful heart.” – Luci Swindoll
19. “Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent…and have a grateful heart!” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
20. “Grace is available for each of us every day – our spiritual daily bread – but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
21. “May you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. “A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort-at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude. Often we feel grateful and intend to express our thanks but forget to do so or just don’t get around to it. Someone has said that “feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – Thomas S. Monson
23. “A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility.” – James E. Faust
24. “After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.” – Andy Andrews
25. “Have a grateful heart to be happy.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Conclusion
Being grateful is a virtue we must all possess. Not only does it bring out the good in others, but it also encourages them to have a selfless spirit. These quotes on gratitude will help you and your loved ones attain this special quality.
For more resources on how to be grateful, check out Importance Of Pursuing Happiness, 100 Things To Be Grateful For Always, and Hacks To Be Happy All The Time.
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