Quotes About Gratitude And Thankfulness

#1. 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

#2. Grateful and appreciating hearts radiate happiness. Gratitude and thankfulness fill life with joyfulness.

Debasish Mridha

#3. One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

Gautama Buddha

#4. You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!

William Shakespeare

#5. Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. I know what it is to have nothing and plenty.
Always count your blessing and be grateful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

William Blake

#9. Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

Evagrius Ponticus

#10. Be grateful for who you are and what you will be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The opposite of envy and entitlement is gratitude. Gratitude comes from the feeling of freely receiving things, not because we deserve them, but because someone has graced us with them. We feel a thankfulness grounded in love,

Henry Cloud

#12. Family gathers
to share good noise and good food.
Gratitude abounds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

Yuval Levin

#14. The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulness and my own self-appreciation.

Vironika Tugaleva

#15. Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#16. With all respect to your religion or world-view - thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes - the keyword is "thank" - just have some gratitude and be thankful.

Bryant McGill

#17. Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

#18. As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

David Steindl-Rast

#19. True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

Richard Rohr

#20. Gratitude is a divine shift in your perspective from one of separation and lack to one of unity and right mindedness. It is a choice not made from guilt but rather from a higher level of consciousness.

Janet Rebhan

#21. Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there 20, 30, 40 years from now, padding your old bones and time worn, weary soul.

Ann Marie Frohoff

#22. Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.

Auliq Ice

#23. I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.

Rosslyn Elliott

#24. Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Jim Loehr

#25. 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

#26. Sincere, heartfelt appreciation is pure love, and is the strongest message to the Universe that this is more of what you want to experience. Feel grateful and attract more reason to be grateful for. It works like magic.

Malti Bhojwani

#27. Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

Oprah Winfrey

#28. If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

Jonathan V. Last

#29. Being grateful is humbling. If we appreciate the simple things as well as our achievements and a simple hello from someone else and show courtesy to others, we will certainly express our gratitude to God.

Ellen J. Barrier

#30. People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that."
"If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

Nick Vujicic

#31. Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.

Christina Rossetti

#32. Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.

Charles Stanley

#33. When you appreciate what you have, and feel enthusiasm for life, you move in the direction of your natural state i.e. happy & peaceful.

Hina Hashmi

#34. Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

Ryan Lilly

#36. Gratitude
... here at home our faith dwindles
political division
causes tensions to kindle -
we should never forget
who stands at the door -
who shields us with armor
and shall forever more ...

Muse

#37. There is a gap in between gratitude
and thankfulness
I will meet you there
Where love resides with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#38. For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Seneca The Elder

#39. Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

Billy Graham

#40. It's up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now - and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we'll be happy.

Joanna Gaines

#41. To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics:
I can write.
I have the opportunity to do so.
I love what I write.
Now smile and be thankful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#42. 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

#43. It's easy and natural to be thankful when your expectations are met. The real test of your faith is when things don't go your way, or when you are in pain.

Maddy Malhotra