Top 100 To Be Grateful Quotes
#1. It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton
Salman Rushdie
#2. Now in your inner mind, tell yourself, 'Every time I begin to worry, I will immediately think of something to be grateful for.' Repeat this enough times until you feel that your inner mind will automatically go into gratitude mode as soon as it's aware that it's in worry mode.
Zelig Pliskin
#3. I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.
Mesa Selimovic
#4. Have you ever paused to be Grateful? For eyes to see, nose to smell, ears to hear, tongue to taste, hands to feel, head to think and heart to love?-RVM
R.v.m.
#5. Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.
Cheryl Cole
#6. He said Bailey taught him to love and to put things in perspective, to live for the present, to say I love you often and to mean it. And to be grateful for every day. It taught him patience and perseverance.
Amy Harmon
#7. We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.
Natalie Portman
#8. When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.
Peter McWilliams
#9. We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
David Steindl-Rast
#10. By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#11. You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.
Davina Veronica
#12. Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE!
Louise Hay
#13. Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
Steve Maraboli
#14. She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that's directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us." But the Stephen Colbert who speaks
Bruce Watson
#15. One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.
Kelli O'Hara
#16. Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar ... and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.
Thomas B. Griffith
#17. A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.
Steve Maraboli
#18. When a person looks through a colored lens, everything seems to be that color. If the lens is tinted yellow or blue, everything seems yellow or blue. A person who looks at life through the lens of gratitude will always find things to be grateful for.
Zelig Pliskin
#19. Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.
Mark Nepo
#20. It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
E.W. Howe
#22. Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.
Joel Osteen
#23. It seems at least once a day I'm reminded to be grateful that insanity and poor driving isn't contagious.
Lisa Shiroff
#24. You'll have to be grateful for what we can do instead of angry about what we can't.
Eric Walters
#25. The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of
England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think
of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
Dale Carnegie
#26. Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. I allow myself one day to indulge in self-pity and thereafter I
continue to be grateful for what life has given me, really!
That's all part of living.
Melinda George
#28. We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.
Andy Andrews
#29. It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.
Rhonda Byrne
#31. No matter how this turns out, you've already seen the treasure we all search a lifetime for. You've got the whole rest of your life to be grateful for that.
Dan Skinner
#32. We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.
Charles Bukowski
#33. Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Samuel Johnson
#35. We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.
Conn Iggulden
#36. The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be.
Louise Hay
#37. If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
Pearl S. Buck
#39. A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. Respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.
Colleen Hoover
#41. My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#42. The six people you must find today ...
Someone to love.
Someone to thank.
Someone to be grateful for.
Someone to forgive
Someone to forget
Someone to admire.
James Altucher
#43. Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
Michael Cunningham
#44. There's so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.
Even if you don't think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit's presence in your life!
Stormie O'martian
#45. She complains all the time about her hair turning gray and her butt sagging and her skin wrinkling, but I'm supposed to be grateful for a face full of zits, hair in embarrassing places, and feet that grow an inch a night. Utter crap.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#46. RVM's Thought for the Day - A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.
R.v.m.
#47. Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.
Eric Kripke
#48. Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.
Harold S. Kushner
#49. It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.
Srikumar Rao
#50. It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.
Joseph Cook
#51. Just remember: to be grateful and thank the people who are there and support you along the way is a great start to success.
Meryl Davis
#52. People rarely get more of anything until they have learned to be grateful for what they already have.
Michael Hyatt
#53. But Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.
Joan Bauer
#54. Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
Steve Lacy
#55. If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.
Harold Klemp
#56. I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon
David Carr
#57. The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.
Sue Miller
#59. Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#60. Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.
Olivia Culpo
#61. To be happy in life ... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.
Joel Osteen
#62. Look around and find something for which to be grateful.
Rickson Gracie
#63. And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
Norman Vincent Peale
#64. Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.
Catherine Hicks
#66. Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.
Mike Aquilina
#67. Moments are best when everyone can take a moment to remember to be grateful for their life and those who cherish theirs. It ought not to take a tragedy to awaken someone to truly value what he/she has and the people who have always been there to bring comfort every day.
Steven Cuoco
#68. The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Richard Carlson
#69. The list of things to be grateful for is so long, if I really give thanks I don't have time to complain about anything.
Dan Reiland
#71. Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.
Michael Josephson
#72. Want an effective way of creating positive change in your life? Stop talking about what you hate, and start talking about what you love. Stop accounting for what lack, and start counting all the reasons you have to be grateful.
Karlyle Tomms
#73. It's so good to be loved by someone who knows how to live with the flaws. Who knows not to expect the world from you and how to be grateful for what you can give. And who knows that, like the people who give it, love is not perfect.
Nicole Green
#74. Unconditional gratitude is a powerful activity allowing ourselves to be grateful for whatever happens in our life.
Jesse D. Jennings
#75. I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
Karen Joy Fowler
#76. New Day ... new opportunity to be grateful for what we have, not bitter for what we don't.
Charles F. Glassman
#77. A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.
Radhanath Swami
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#81. Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
Elizabeth Smart
#82. Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone.
Fazlur Rahman
#83. 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
#84. In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.
Alice Barrett
#85. I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
Brandon Routh
#86. I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for.
Robert Downey Jr.
#87. I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.
Daniel Keyes
#88. Begin to be aware of your tendency to make the "haves" bad and the "have nots" good. Ask God to help you to be grateful for what you have, and to rejoice in the good things that others have.
Henry Cloud
#89. Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.
Joel Osteen
#91. I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
Oprah Winfrey
#92. I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.
Anthony Powell
#93. Often in life we get so caught up in what we don't have that we forget to be grateful for what we do have. We get so busy asking and seeking and begging and pursuing that we never take time out simply to be. To sit still
Mandy Hale
#94. When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
Katherine Heigl
#95. Sacred life;to sing,to praise, to worship, to pray, to study the Bible,to be grateful,to read,to write and to be kind to others.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen.
C.J. Langenhoven
#97. Of course, for whatever is amiss in these pages (and there will be much), the blame is mine. But permit me to be grateful if anything in them is true.
J. Budziszewski
#98. There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
Emily Dickinson
#99. And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.
Celia Rivenbark
#100. Gratitude makes the world a softer, kinder place. It softens that brittle shell of defence. There is always something to be grateful for, no matter how small or simple.
Janey Colbourne
