
Top 100 Quotes About To Be Thankful
#1. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.
Alan Paton
#2. Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer
#3. The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.
Azar Nafisi
#4. Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#5. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. COLOSSIANS 3:15
Joel Osteen
#6. Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
Joe Biden
#7. The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Linda Dillow
#8. Be Kind. Be Generous. Be Helpful. Show Mercy. Be Forgiving. Give Love.
Be Thankful. Be Cheerful. Do Acts Of Kindness for Those Who Can Never Repay you. It all helps to brighten humanity!
Timothy Pina
#9. Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates
Charlotte Temple
#10. She's a lovely young woman from upstate New York, but you should be very thankful for those romance-novel-reading, tween-movie-watching women. They've had a big hand in making our town a success." "And Julian's love life, once he learned to spray himself with glitter.
Kristen Painter
#11. Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else.
L.M. Montgomery
#12. I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.
Prince
#13. PRAYER Dear Lord, teach me to cultivate a thankful heart as a gift to You and to the world around me. Remind me when I grumble and complain that Your will for me is to speak blessings and to be a blessing to everyone I know. Amen.
Carole Lewis
#14. A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.
Theodore Roosevelt
#15. The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
Gene Simmons
#16. When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary. If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
Dale Carnegie
#17. Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
Bethany Hamilton
#18. It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water - well OK, not people in the developing world.
Avril Lavigne
#19. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.
Miya Yamanouchi
#20. Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt
Colleen Houck
#21. People are not always what they say there are - or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us objectively, and heave reason to be thankful that He is called the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Forgiving
Charles Le Gai Eaton
#22. I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.
DeLisha Milton-Jones
#23. Be thankful to those who refuse to help you, for they force you to summon upon your warrior within.
Miya Yamanouchi
#24. I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be happy with who I was. So I'm really thankful for my family and for the support system that I have for being the person that I am today. I'm proud of who I am.
Keke Palmer
#25. To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.
Joan D. Chittister
#26. To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.
Tony Gaskins
#27. New Testament writers do not tell me why God chose to save me. They only tell me to be thankful that He did.
J.I. Packer
#28. I agree with Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote, 'The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life'.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#29. 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
#30. If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.
Ewen Bremner
#31. Like every other good thing in this
world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,
it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us be
duly thankful for that, my dear Denis
duly thankful.
Aldous Huxley
#32. Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.
Charlotte Eriksson
#33. Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#34. There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.
Lisa Leslie
#35. they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ROM1.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Anonymous
#36. All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Heinrich Himmler
#37. I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
Judy Blume
#38. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Anonymous
#39. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.
Max Ehrmann
#40. Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the 'gift of life' if we ever hope to be thankful for the 'gifts' of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well.
Donald Miller
#42. Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
Anonymous
#43. Everyone says there's a lack of leadership in the world these days. I think we should all be thankful, because the only reason for leadership is to convince people to do things that are either dangerous (like invading another country) or stupid (working extra hard without extra pay).
Scott Adams
#44. God showers us with a lot of things that we should be grateful for. We do not need to look far and wide. One look at the mirror and a look under our noses, and we already find beautiful blessings that we should be thankful for.
Kcat Yarza
#45. I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.
Winston Churchill
#46. Where are we going tonight?"
"To meet Eddy at the Brickyard again. It's Thirsty Thursday apparently."
"Oh no, not participating in Thirsty Thursday. Wasted Wednesday was enough for me."
"Just be thankful it's not Mystery Monday or Tanked Tuesday.
Shey Stahl
#47. Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
Benjamin Franklin
#48. The English word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more "thinkful" about the contribution of others, they would be more "thankful" to them.
John C. Maxwell
#49. AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#50. As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#51. This morning I woke up, how blessed I am
Eyes to see, a voice to speak
Words to read and love to feel?
If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is.
Nikki Rowe
#52. We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
Albert Barnes
#53. Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.
Michael Josephson
#54. Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life!
Lily Tomlin
#55. Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate."
I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.
Michael Crichton
#56. Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#57. most. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. But they won't give me that option. So I'll settle for being with someone who at least doesn't love me as much. I'm thankful for Margot. Not that I tell her this. Not that I tell her anything. I don't.
Katja Millay
#58. Darling,
When they try
To tame you
Turn to the sun, tilt your head
And be thankful you
Never turned into one
of them.
Nikki Rowe
#59. Life is too short to not to be grateful for every moment we are alive.Today I have so much to be thankful for.
Demi Lovato
#60. Prayer of Thanks Father, help me to love and appreciate the person You created me to be. I thank You that I don't have to compare myself to others in order to be accepted. You created me with a unique and wonderful purpose. I'm thankful that to You, I am special and beyond compare.
Joyce Meyer
#61. "Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"
Charles Dickens
#62. I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.
Angela Merkel
#63. If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.
Thomas Cole
#64. I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#65. Be thankful and grateful daily. Gratitude for what you have is a great way to get more of it.
Reza Nazari
#66. I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
Yoko Ono
#67. I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.
Jerry Rice
#68. A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.
Ann Landers
#69. Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.
John James Audubon
#70. When trial in life comes over us, we should be thankful, because God purifies us ... as a new cloth needs to be washed.
Radostin Chernev
#71. Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.
Thomas Boston
#72. You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
Halsey
#73. Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#74. We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#75. Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Joel Osteen
#76. Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#77. If you have not made somebody's day happier, if you've not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth!
Preeti Shenoy
#78. 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
#79. Make arrangements, yet don't live for tomorrow. Live throughout today. As you get up every morning, be thankful that you are given one more day to take in more lessons. You are given more opportunities to get on track, to live all the more genuinely and transparently, to love more, and to give more.
Adam Green
#80. Never again should you wonder what you have to be thankful for.
Rick Warren
#81. I suppose I should just be thankful that since you are so much given to treachery, you're so reassuringly inept at it.
Sharon Kay Penman
#82. With God, what's possible will always be infinitely greater than what we believe to be probable. And we can be thankful that such a reality means that where we see a wall, God wishes to unveil a horizon.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#83. Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.
Fred Couples
#84. Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#85. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
Marian Wright Edelman
#86. When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.
Allen Iverson
#87. Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.
Margaret Weis
#88. Be a person ...
a. Who are rejected / avoid you.. let them feel, that they missed a best person in life..
b. Who are care, love you.. be thankful to them & make them afraid to lose you ...
Arafath Shanas
#89. I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.
Justin Timberlake
#90. Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful."
"Thankful for what?" said Tiffany.
"That I'll get dry later.
Terry Pratchett
#91. Brave Livia, you never cease to amaze me." He lifted her chin with his finger. "I've never been more thankful to be alive than right now."
After soft kisses, they pressed their hands together palm to palm. The tingling scattered all over Livia's body, warming her.
Debra Anastasia
#92. I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.
Joe Garagiola
#93. 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
#94. Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are; you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference.
Roy T. Bennett
#95. To be thankful when my world lays in ashes long gone cold is to finally understand that ashes are the raw materials from which God shapes dreams infinitely grander than whatever the ashes were before they were ashes.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day.
Colin Morgan
#97. Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
Al Jarreau
#98. It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.
David Jeremiah
#99. I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I'm not.
Lysa TerKeurst
#100. Be thankful for even the little things in your life. Be brave & strong to overcome your troubles ... for it could be better but it could always be worse!
Timothy Pina
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