Top 100 Quotes About Thankful
#1. A thankful heart is constantly extending grace because it has received grace. Love and grace are uneven. God poured out on his own Son the criticism I deserve. Now he invites me to pour out undeserving grace on someone who has hurt me. Grace begets grace. This
Paul E. Miller
#2. To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
Charles Lamb
#3. I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.
Desmond Tutu
#5. The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.
Will Rogers
#6. 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
#7. I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
Bruce Sutter
#8. But cast away the thirst after books, that thou mayest not die murmuring, but cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the gods.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. Be thankful for everybody in your life, good and bad, past and present. They all made you the person that you're today.
Unknown
#10. If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Each day I'm thankful for being chosen. Sometimes I try to imagine what it would have been like if we'd never met ... I'd rather lose you now than have gone a lifetime without this.
Kiera Cass
#13. I feel so fortunate to be one of the lucky ones who is so grateful and appreciative to know such great synonyms for thankful.
Demetri Martin
#14. I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
Bill W.
#15. What's blessed about my life is that I have been able to connect with the global audience on a regular basis. I am thankful for everybody's love, and I reciprocate that, but I also have to deliver on every occasion.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#16. Be thankful for the little you've got, and a little is all you're gonna get.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#17. Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. And I'm thinking a thought that is something like, "Be thankful for what's left of you.
Sam Pink
#19. He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. I cry long rivers of regret, but with every new breath, I am secretly thankful for my good fortune.
J.A. Huss
#21. You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.
Joel Osteen
#22. So you've made your Christmas list? Checked it twice? Before we get too carried away dreaming about the CD or Xbox game we've just got to have, let's be thankful for the One gift we already have - the best gift of all.
Max Lucado
#23. No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.
David Jeremiah
#24. 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
#25. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.
Bo Burnham
#26. Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics can help you get where you want to be!
C.K. Webb
#27. So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don't demand anything - because the other has no obligation to love you.
Osho
#28. Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!
Henry Ford
#29. Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Abraham Cowley
#30. I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.
Wayne W. Dyer
#31. The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.
Bryant McGill
#32. Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company.
Francis Webster
#33. Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that they bring, expands!
Charles Dickens
#34. Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
Andrew Solomon
#35. I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
Bill Kreutzmann
#36. If everyone could almost die, the world would be a happier, more thankful place.
Terry Lynn Johnson
#37. I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn't have stumbled upon my strength.
Alexandra Elle
#38. Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
Edna Ferber
#39. For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Storm Jameson
#40. I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!
Angela Merkel
#41. I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.
Zig Ziglar
#42. It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#43. You gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little infinity
John Green
#45. I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive.
Khaled Hosseini
#46. I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them ... Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#47. People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.
Marc Martel
#48. Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.
Haruki Murakami
#49. Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
James Brown
#50. It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
Cornelius Plantinga
#51. It was essential to feel thankful for the few who stopped to watch or listen, instead of wasting energy on resenting the majority who passed me by.
Amanda Palmer
#52. I'm only thankful that I had her as long as I did.
Sean Waller
#53. I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.
Darryl Strawberry
#54. The more thankful you are, the happier you will be!
Joyce Meyer
#55. I think God has plans for everyone, and I'm just thankful this is his plan for me.
Britney Spears
#56. A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
Ben Jonson
#57. One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,
Will Rogers
#58. My thoughts gravitate to whatever's missing, whatever's lost or broken or painful. My heart worries and fears. There is plenty to be thankful for but those are not the scenes I stay stuck in.
Jamie Tworkowski
#59. I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
Elayne Boosler
#60. There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.
Charles Spurgeon
#63. Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.
Hal Urban
#64. yourself the following "prayer". Just for today, be at peace, Just for today, be happy, Be kind to people, Focus on your work, And be thankful.
Nathaniel
#65. Maybe God wants you to meet many wrong people, before you meet the right one,so when it happens you'll be thankful ;)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#66. I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.
Kid Rock
#67. Unthankful people think they are the centre of the universe. They compare themselves with those who have more. They have forgotten God. Thankful people know who really is the centre of the universe. They compare themselves with those who have less. They always remember God.
Paul Krautmann
#68. Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, So I my life conduct. Each morning see some task begun, Each evening see it chucked. But still, in sudden moods of dusk, I hear those great weird wings, Feel vaguely thankful to the vast Stupidity of things.
G.K. Chesterton
#69. There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.
Charles E. McKenzie
#70. Each time you prove yourself, you will be tested again. Each time, the tests will become greater. The more you struggle, the greater person you can become. Each test is not a difficulty - it is a precious opportunity. Be thankful for it. The more you suffer, the more thankful you must be.
Morgan Rice
#71. Be thankful to God for all He has given to you. The more thankful you're to God the more He will continue to give to you.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#72. I don't go into it trying to be this or that because that completely taints and corrupts the work that you're trying to do. But, I'm thankful and that definitely was a surprise. Hopefully, I'll keep doing stuff that remains interesting and fun for the audience.
Tim Kang
#73. Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed
Pablo
#74. Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought. -Bob Proctor
Bob Proctor
#75. I've grown quiet now. You won't hear me talk about you anymore. It doesn't hurt like it used to. I suppose that is something to be thankful for.
Lang Leav
#76. But if God does not give us children, knowing as He does how thankful we should be for them, it is surely because He has some good reason for it. Perhaps there are now in the world some fatherless and motherless little ones that He is saving for us till we can afford to take them
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#77. That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.
Alexandra Adornetto
#79. When you are a thankful person it releases joy.
Joyce Meyer
#80. When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
#82. When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.
James McAvoy
#83. Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is ... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working ... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.
Tony Hale
#84. The universe has never appeared to me to be particularly fair," Adele said at last. "I think some people should be thankful for that reality.
David Drake
#85. Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.
Wallace D. Wattles
#86. The message snow gives us is very valuable: The environment you live in can suddenly change! Are you ready for this? Let us be thankful to the snow for this spectacular warning!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. 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
#88. My heart is filled with great joy.
I am so thankful to God for miraculously saving my life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births.
Katherine Paterson
#90. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#91. I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.
Andie MacDowell
#92. To be even more successful in Business Development, lighten up, enjoy the journey, learn from your prospects and learn from your experiences. As a professional Business Developer, don't take yourself or any situation too seriously, and always be thankful for your resulting opportunities.
Nicholas Coppings
#93. I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Nolan Ryan
#94. For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.
Michael Josephson
#95. Being thankful for life itself is a way of making life better. When we look away from our problems, even for a short time, and generate joy in our hearts, we find that the world seems to change a bit.
John Harricharan
#96. As you put your children to bed, spend at least three minutes of private time, after books and bathroom and teeth-brushing, and ask them to tell you one thing they did that they appreciate themselves for and one thing someone else did that they are thankful
for. You
M.J. Ryan
#98. We are thankful for the gifts that surround us, and then we let them go, trusting that nothing will be lost, even if we lose it for a time.
William Paul Young
#99. When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful.
Flannery O'Connor
#100. I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we've given it away.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
