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. The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Linda Dillow

#3. 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

#4. Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!

Bethany Hamilton

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I agree with Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote, 'The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life'.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Winston Churchill

#16. 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

#17. As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

Ann Landers

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#27. Never again should you wonder what you have to be thankful for.

Rick Warren

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

Al Jarreau

#33. It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

David Jeremiah

#34. Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

Tony Robbins

#35. The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for.

Louise Hay

#36. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#37. When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

Napoleon Hill

#38. He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.

Bernard Pomerance

#39. Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

Albert Camus

#40. 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

#41. All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

Dorothy Parker

#42. 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

#43. Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

Joseph Heller

#44. Life is a gift. We don't earn it. We don't own it. Learn to be thankful for the time that you have.

Joshua David Swift

#45. I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them.

Jeremy Scott

#46. It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

Elisabeth Elliot

#47. The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.

John Baillie

#48. One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

Charles Kettering

#49. There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves
so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

L.M. Montgomery

#50. While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

John Templeton

#51. I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective.

Allen Evangelista

#52. There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

Jim Rohn

#53. To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

#54. One Life is about realizing there's no second chances in this one life that we were given to live. So we need to be thankful for all we have. Work hard for what we want and love one another no matter the difference.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#55. When you stop putting your focus on the bad things in your life and instead begin to be thankful for the good, your life will become more and more abundant. If

Sandra Leon

#56. Even with our differences There is a place we're all connected Each of us can find each other's light, There's so much to be thankful for.

Josh Groban

#57. It's amazing how the more thankful I am, the more things I get to be thankful for.

Jeanette Coron

#58. We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Carlos Castaneda

#59. At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances ...

William Braxton Irvine

#60. Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

John Templeton

#61. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Taylor

#62. Even if it is just one thing or person you have to be thankful for, that is enough.

Jaycee Dugard

#63. While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for.

Ogwo David Emenike

#64. Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

Dale Carnegie

#65. To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.

Arun Shourie

#66. A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.

Norman Vincent Peale

#67. Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Wayne Thiebaud

#68. To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Charles Lamb

#69. No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

David Jeremiah

#70. 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

#71. The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.

Bryant McGill

#72. 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

#73. One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,

Will Rogers

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!

Tracy Anderson

#77. There is so much in the world for us if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful for.

L.M. Montgomery

#78. The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy to imagine that possibly a god has created us and then to say that there isn't the least reason for us to be impressed by that fact. And certainly not to be thankful for it.

Lars Gustafsson

#79. Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow

Mata Amritanandamayi

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

Whitney Cummings

#85. It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

Tan Le

#86. You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#87. I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.

Jeff Goins

#88. We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

Epicurus

#89. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

H.L. Mencken

#90. When God answers your prayers and sends down his blessings to you in prosperity, thank him by helping those in need. There's is no greater way to be thankful than helping to brighten humanity!

Timothy Pina

#91. Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for ... and smile. The world will smile with you.

Frank Bettger

#92. My dear God, I am impressed with how much I have to be thankful for in a material sense; and in a spiritual sense I have the opportunity of being even more fortunate. But it seems apparent to me that I am not translating this opportunity into fact.

Flannery O'Connor

#93. In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl becomes a woman. But I think age is just a number - you become a woman with the responsibilities you take on and the decisions you make. I started realizing that every day is a gift - you have every day to be thankful you're alive.

Emily Rios

#94. If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

Arsenie Boca

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.

Reba McEntire

#98. In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what's there, and not angry for what's not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#99. Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.

Amit Ray

#100. G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.

Ravi Zacharias