Top 100 Quotes About Gratitude
#1. 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
#2. Personal freedom comes from embodying intent, love, and gratitude... this is the mastery of life.
Miguel Ruiz
#3. 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
#4. I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace - just as I am.
Billy Graham
#5. Research shows that sincere positive feelings--like love, care, gratitude, appreciation, compassion, or joy--smooth out our heart rhythm into a harmonious coherent pattern.
Jed Diamond
#6. The components of gratitude and truth, love and hope bring the realization of wonder. The disciplines of study, of reading and reflecting, of dialoguing in depth and praying with belief sustain the wonder.
Ravi Zacharias
#8. A purpose is more like a positive daily-grind, with gratitude and a smile.
Bryant McGill
#9. It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Tacitus
#10. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Evelyn Underhill
#11. God's reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship.
John Piper
#12. Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.
Solanus Casey
#13. Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.
Raheel Farooq
#15. No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
Mac Anderson
#16. We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#17. Although words are the world and were the birthing of the world, there are no words to express what I felt at that moment, no words for the dimensions of my joy, for the great buoyancy that overcame my spirit, for the depth of my gratitude, for the brightness of my hope.
Dean Koontz
#18. One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
Thomas Jefferson
#19. It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.
Wallace D. Wattles
#20. Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#21. A true understanding of grace - of God's unmerited favor - always provokes a life of gratitude and obedience.
Anonymous
#22. Lord, You have extended such grace to me. You have forgiven my wickedness and remembered my sins no more. (Heb. 8:12) Help me to demonstrate my gratitude by forgiving others!
Beth Moore
#23. I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#25. A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.
Maureen Johnson
#26. Express gratitude for what you have. This increases the possibility that eventually you will have more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
#27. Praise, or gratitude, is love or faith in action.
Robert Scheid
#28. Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.
Bronnie Ware
#29. I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.
David Alan Basche
#30. Grateful and appreciating hearts radiate happiness. Gratitude and thankfulness fill life with joyfulness.
Debasish Mridha
#31. The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.
Nancy Sinatra
#32. 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
#33. Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
Gautama Buddha
#34. I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.
Heloise
#35. If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
Carl Jung
#36. True gratitude is the ability to humbly see, feel, and even receive love. Gratitude is a form of returning love to God. Recognize His hand, tell Him so, express your love to Him.
Gene R. Cook
#37. Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
#38. 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
#39. The revelation of kindness hurts worse than cruelty. There is no way to equal it. Nowhere to put her gratitude, and so it thrashes in her body.
Emily Ruskovich
#40. My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Karen Hughes
#41. Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
Andy Stanley
#42. Every new morning, I write a grateful gratitude for the new grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.
Lu Xun
#44. A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you
Brian Tracy
#46. Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.
Richard J. Foster
#47. All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
Lisa See
#48. Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#50. Prayers can be whatever you wish them to be. They can be short or long requests, expressions of gratitude and affirmations that your requests are being honored.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#51. Although she felt gratitude for what her teacher had done, she still couldn't bring herself to thank him for intensifying her hidden fears.
Valerie Ormond
#52. Start your day by awakening early to welcome the morning sun with a smile, love, and gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?
Robert J. Wicks
#54. To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.
Charles Spurgeon
#55. 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice Walker
#56. Work filled with inspiration is worship.
A heart filled with courage is unbreakable.
A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled.
G.G. Renee Hill
#57. The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way to shift that perspective is through gratitude, by acknowledging and appreciating the positives.
Bronnie Ware
#58. Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.
Robin Sharma
#59. Gratitude takes time. It's the fruit of experience. It still feels new to me, I haven't had it for that long. Gratitude came only after I'd passed through all the other feelings.
Michael W. Clune
#60. 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
#61. Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#62. And, like a lightning strike, there is his example. His mother before him. The lesson that she passed down for him to pass on to his children - the courage to face every breath with love and gratitude.
Lisa Genova
#63. Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.
Lady Gaga
#65. A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#66. Barbara Fredrickson, a researcher at the University of North Carolina and perhaps the world's leading expert on the subject, describes the ten most common positive emotions: "joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, and love.
Shawn Achor
#67. The understanding you gain from practicing gratitude frees you from being lost or identified with either the negative or the positive aspects of life, letting you simply meet life in each moment as it rises ...
Phillip Moffitt
#68. With tears of gratitude, I told him I had never had multiple orgasms before. From that moment on, I owned him.
L.T. Graham
#70. The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. The search is over when the finding starts. And the finding is not a finding at all, but a creating. You cannot find what you have been struggling for, but you can create it. And the jump-start of creation is gratitude.
Neale Donald Walsch
#71. The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ.
Randy Alcorn
#72. For my dearest darling, treasured, cherished Agatha whom I worship. With respect, adoration, admiration, kisses, gratitude, best wishes, and love from Z to A.
Wes Anderson
#74. Gratitude is a discipline, not an emotion.
Josh Becker
#75. Her gratitude warms my shivering insides. I forget the picture I could have posted and realize that it's a gift. Real life doesn't always need to be posted online. I can remember this moment without a photo.
Janet Gurtler
#76. If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.
Steve Maraboli
#77. 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
#78. Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
Sophocles
#79. Because our brain's resources are limited, we are left with a choice: to use those finite resources to see only pain, negativity, stress, and uncertainty, or to use those resources to look at things through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience, optimism, and meaning.
Shawn Achor
#80. 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
#81. he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He
Mark Twain
#82. The Kingdom of Heaven is where God's will is done. When God's will is done on earth as it is in Heaven, we know God as the God of life and love; we enjoy direct, open communication with God; we enjoy life together with God and with people from every nation in a community of grace and gratitude.
Dean Summers
#83. When you're feeling down ...
Smile
Stand tall, shoulder back
Compliment someone
Help someone in a big or small way
Listen to music
Clean your space
Plan your day
Do what your brain tells you can't or shouldn't
Pray (or meditate) with a focus on gratitude
Breathe
Charles F. Glassman
#84. No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.
Theodore Roosevelt
#85. He was an indifferent Christian but the afternoon called for gratitude and belief.
Irwin Shaw
#88. But gratitude can be the very devil sometimes, particularly if you have to be grateful for services you'd rather be without.
P.D. James
#89. Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict
#90. When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
Pat Summerall
#91. 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
#93. That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary's greatest curatives - gratitude.
Geoffrey Wood
#94. I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.
Kris Carr
#95. Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.
Pope Benedict XVI
#96. I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.
Kristin Armstrong
#97. Gratitude is the heart's memory. French Proverb
Candy Paull
#98. Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.
M.J. Ryan
#99. When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.
Esther Hicks
#100. Life doesn't owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.
Bronnie Ware
