Top 84 Giving Gratitude Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Giving Gratitude

#1. Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.

Marie Kondo

#2. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

David Steindl-Rast

#3. Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Catullus

#4. Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks ... and you win joy.

Ann Voskamp

#5. Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

Edward Young

#6. Cultivate the habit of being grateful ... and ... give thanks continuously.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.

Mother Teresa

#8. The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#9. Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.

Sasha Azevedo

#10. Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

Matthew McConaughey

#11. When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody. You simply give. You don't even expect gratitude or thankfulness, because you are giving not to get anything, not even gratitude. You

Osho

#12. I'd tell the planet to actively and consciously practice gratitude. To never give up hope. To believe in themselves and be true to who they are. To be kind. To share. To protect our planet for future generations.

Trista Sutter

#13. It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

Oprah Winfrey

#14. Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.

Billy Graham

#15. In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.

Wilferd Peterson

#16. I'm just so very lucky to be able to do what I do for a living, and giving back is a way for me to express my gratitude. I'm so lucky to be in a position to help people, and that's appealing to me.

PewDiePie

#17. I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.

Steve Maraboli

#18. Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.

Jaeda DeWalt

#19. Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.

Kano Jigoro

#20. God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

R.C. Sproul

#21. I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Receiving, gratitude, and generosity all grow together.

Mark V. Ewert

#23. Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.

Terry Tempest Williams

#24. There is power in having gratitude and giving thanks for what you have; it attracts more to you.

Idowu Koyenikan

#25. Peace starts within. We are what we give.

Sal Di Leo

#26. 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

#27. Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#28. Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon.

Colleen Mariotti

#29. The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

Steven Spielberg

#30. In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#31. When you meet an ungrateful person, be great. The moment you become great, you will become fulfilled. There is no other secret. Nothing else will give you fulfillment.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#32. Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#33. Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

Dallin H. Oaks

#34. Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

Ann Voskamp

#35. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Terry Taylor

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

William Arthur Ward

#37. The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.

Wayne Dyer

#38. Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.

Ann Voskamp

#39. And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

Sara Teasdale

#40. The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

John Wanamaker

#42. When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

Amy Vanderbilt

#43. You can change someone's life by showing gratitude and giving sincere appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

#44. From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Jeremy Taylor

#45. The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.

Donald Barnhouse

#46. Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

Michael Josephson

#47. Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.

Elijah Muhammad

#48. How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever.' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.

Russell M. Nelson

#49. If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

Dale Carnegie

#50. The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

David Steindl-Rast

#51. Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

C.S. Lewis

#52. 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

#53. Passion. Confidence. Gratitude. The possibility of making positive change in the world. It's the sort of "spark" one gets the moment they decide to go after what they want, really fight for it, work hard, and not give up. I love that spark; it's beautifully contagious.

Beth Riesgraf

#54. Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because ... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

Maimonides

#55. Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

Jude Bijou

#56. In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

Aberjhani

#57. I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while

Kim Kyu-jong

#58. It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#59. When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!

Hal Elrod

#60. It is not that it is religious or it is not religious, it is called attitude of gratitude, it is called thanking God for giving you elbows and knees, giving you ribs and the glandular system, giving you head and skull and brain.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#61. At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

Ben Vereen

#62. Think of giving not as a privilege of having abundance in life, but as a purpose and gratitude of life.

Debasish Mridha

#63. Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose

Wallace D. Wattles

#64. It only takes a few minutes in the morning to use gratitude to Have A Magical Day by giving thanks for the events in your day ahead of time, but this one practice alone will change the way your entire day unfolds.

Rhonda Byrne

#65. Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

William Faulkner

#66. For me, giving thanks is a sign of appreciation and gratitude that also brings about a deep sense of peace.

Wally Amos

#67. Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. My brothers and sisters, do we remember to give thanks for the blessings we receive? Sincerely giving thanks not only helps us recognize our blessings, but it also unlocks the doors of heaven and helps us feel God's love.

Thomas S. Monson

#69. If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

Plautus

#70. Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

Mokichi Okada

#71. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Paul Bloom

#72. Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.

Steve Maraboli

#73. Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

Theodore Parker

#74. God first acts in grace and mercy by delivering the people, and then the people respond in gratitude and thanksgiving by obeying the commandments. Put succinctly: the crossing of the Red Sea comes before the giving of the Ten Commandments. How

Richard J. Foster

#75. Happiness has more to do with giving than taking. Kamon 2015

Kamon

#76. Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped.

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Jean De La Bruyere

#78. My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.

Crystal Woods