Top 84 About Gratitude Quotes
#1. [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.
Brene Brown
#2. Always there is something worth saying
about glory, about gratitude.
Mary Oliver
#3. He meets my gaze again, his eyes raw and heated, his breaths ragged. "This has never been about gratitude, Catherine."
I'm having a hard time breathing.
"Tell me you believe me.
K.A. Tucker
#4. It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.
Sumner Davenport
#5. We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean ... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama
#6. You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.
Jean Harris
#7. I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
Louie Schwartzberg
#8. If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
Dale Carnegie
#9. I usually have two feelings about service. The first is when I'm going to give service I feel as they I don't like doing this and why do I have to do it. The second is when I give service I walk away feeling very good about what I did and having gratitude for the opportunity.
Randall Wright
#10. Open your box of blessings and take out something to smile about.
Annonymous Doner
#11. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser
#12. Approach the goal you've set with a positive, grateful attitude, and your perception about the goal and the journey will feel less like work, and more like fun.
John Manning
#13. My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.
Mariska Hargitay
#14. Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.
Alysia Reiner
#15. He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.
Khaled Hosseini
#16. If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
Erwin McManus
#18. Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people's schedules and other people's ideas about what is good for you.
Wallace D. Wattles
#19. So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.
Katherine Heigl
#20. I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.
Rebecca Wells
#21. Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.
Dale Carnegie
#22. 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
#23. Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.
Horace
#24. While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude.
Bryant McGill
#25. Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE!
Louise Hay
#26. Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past. ELLEN VAUGHN1
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#27. Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance ... for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.
Louise Hay
#28. I can't help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.
Koren Zailckas
#29. Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.
Michael Josephson
#30. I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.
Chen Guangcheng
#31. Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden ... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.
Julie Moir Messervy
#32. 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
#33. I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.
Susan Vreeland
#34. I become filled with anxiety and hurt as a natural reaction. Then I resort to my gratitude journal. I make it a point to think about and write down all of the things I have to be grateful for, and this helps me immensely.
Stacy Keibler
#35. IT'S true what they say about happiness. If you approach life from a place of gratitude, you're more apt to enjoy things.
Anonymous
#36. Gratitude makes you a better, stronger, wiser person. Ingratitude makes you a negative, angry, miserable person. Which person do you choose to be?
Tanya Masse
#37. Healing is about making the choice to focus your thoughts on what feels energetically better at the level of your heart.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#38. In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.
Laura Poitras
#39. Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep that all in balance. Gratitude for what I have, trying to be part of movements that make it easy for people who have it harder than they ever should have it.
Emily Saliers
#40. Aim high fly
Reach deep roots
Stretch out grow
Beyond and below
Above and behind
All about and in
The awesomeness
Sings
Janey Colbourne
#42. Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for ... and smile. The world will smile with you.
Frank Bettger
#43. Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
Richard Carlson
#44. Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
Gloria Steinem
#45. Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#46. Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
Dan Buettner
#48. When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world.
Brene Brown
#49. There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."
H. Emilie Cady
#50. We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.
Lord Chesterfield
#51. If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.
Stephen G. Post
#52. I learned about the inextricable connection between joy and gratitude, and how things that I take for granted, like rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise.
Brene Brown
#53. What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?
Justina Chen
#54. What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?
Maddy Malhotra
#55. A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!
Jim Ferree
#56. When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#57. You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself ... worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.
Marian Wright Edelman
#58. When you have become the Embodiment of Gratitude, think about how Pure the Water that fills your Body will be. When this happens, you Yourself will be a Beautiful Shining Crystal of Light.
Masaru Emoto
#59. You can also look at your body and think about how the blood flows and the fact that your body is in constant renewal. It is a miracle of creation happening within you every second of the day. This is something to be thankful for.
Celso Cukierkorn
#60. To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.
Monica Cruz
#61. No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
Epictetus
#62. Gratitude is more than just a simple "thank you" when you receive a gift. It is about keeping in mind that you live right now, allowing yourself to focus on the moment and appreciate the life you lead, to focus on all that you do have, not what you don't. Cliches? Totally.
Meik Wiking
#63. That's the funny thing about America
the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
Abraham Verghese
#64. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
Dale Carnegie
#65. It is not enough that we express our gratitude, we must experience it. We truly honor the must think about our blessings, separately and cumulatively It is not enough to count our blessings and express our gratitude if we don't truly feel grateful.
Michael Josephson
#66. A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. And they were my heroes.
Jim Butcher
#67. When Christians sing about the wrath of God, we are singing about ourselves.
Russell D. Moore
#68. Smile and Know, Thank and Know, became my mantra as I went about my days smiling and knowing when I could. As I did so, I was walking in complete faith, which left me naturally wanting to thank as well.
Bronnie Ware
#69. Experience G.R.A.T.I.T.U.D.E. at a deeper level ... Give it ... Receive it ... Affirm it ... Think it ... Inspire it in others ... Talk about it ... Understand it ... Dream it ... Experience it in everything you do ...
Hal Elrod
#70. For me, giving thanks is a sign of appreciation and gratitude that also brings about a deep sense of peace.
Wally Amos
#71. Wishing I had the words to truly describe the way my heart swells with both relief and gratitude when I think about how even the tiniest snip of the threads in the tapestry of time could have sent our lives spiraling down different paths.
J. Kenner
#72. I, a half naked German, was about to be discovered by her cruel Viking dad in his own bedroom, having smudged his daughter just hours ago. Full of gratitude I contemplated that I would at least not die a virgin.
John Duover
#73. Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I faced the world fully informed about my body and reproductive health.
Lindy West
#74. 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
#75. So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all.
John Green
#76. You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.
Rhonda Byrne
#77. By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
Dale Carnegie
#78. It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ... what am I grateful for ... and I'm not just thinking about them ... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude
James Arthur Ray
#79. I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude.
Kurt Vonnegut
#80. I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
Bernard Goldberg
#81. Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.
Nick Vujicic
#82. How would you like a friend or loved one talking to you only when they needed something? That's kind of how most of use prayer or meditation. Since there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful, how about praying or meditating on that?
Charles F. Glassman
#83. Gratitude opens you heart to receive more goodness. Then you give thanks and are blessed again. It's an endless cycle.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#84. Life is about having an attitude of gratitude. And grabitude. Seriously, you've got to take stuff. What, do you think someone's just going to hand you what you want?
Jarod Kintz
