Appreciation Quotes

Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.

~ Kate Rockland

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Think about the people you love, appreciate, and admire… If today was the last day you could speak with them… What would you say… and what are you waiting for?

~ Steve Maraboli

We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.

~ Steve Maraboli

A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if...you began each day by thanking someone who has helped you? Let today be the day...You make it a point to show your gratitude to others. Send a letter or card, make a call, send a text or email, tell them in person...do whatever you have to do to let them know you appreciate them.

~ Steve Maraboli

The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

There is joy in every circumstance. Although the beginning is/might be bitter, there are valuables lessons in between that bring joy.

~ Wisdom Kwashie Mensah (Wkm)

Life is a wonderfully fine thing. Go live it.

~ Fennel Hudson

Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.

~ Auliq Ice

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

~ Lauren Oliver

Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.

~ Chris Hadfield

My prayer is an attitude of pure gratitude for having the opportunity to experience life on this earth with all its pain, heartache, worry, and turmoil; coupled with this gratitude is the thankfulness for just having the opportunity to have lived. That is fairly easy on good days but difficult when life puts rocks and boulders in the road.

~ David W. Earle

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

~ Ram Dass

Sometimes you just have to find the majesty in yourself and other things to truly appreciate life.

~ Imania Margria

Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.

~ Shampa Sharma

If we learn to love someone for their imperfections that reflect our own, we eventually appreciate the thought that even the most beautiful things are damaged

~ Nicola An

Sometimes all you need is someone who is willing to listen to you without advising or judging you.

~ Adhish Mazumder

Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me.

~ Kevin J. Anderson

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once upon a time,there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

~ Dick Allen

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love … or at least like.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

~ Scott Westerfeld

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.

~ Dan Buettner

If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it.

~ Debasish Mridha

Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.)

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When we appreciate a flower, we are really appreciating the beauty of our amazing minds.

~ Debasish Mridha

Honestly, I never really understood the glorification of Fridays & weekends. I don't want to build a life and career, where I spent five days a week waiting for the weekend. No! I want to enjoy my life, and don't wish any weekday away. I want each day to matter to me, in some way, even if it's a small tiny way. I love my life. Everyday. That's the spirit we should convey all around us.

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

The Lord God is my hope, my joy and my strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Gratitude is the spirit of graceful sacred-existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you appreciate the blessings in life, your soul rejoices.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

~ Marcel Duchamp

All of life is an amphitheater where we each serve as an appreciative member of the audience until the sublime play ends with our death. The chapters and verses in our life story reflect what we value – how appreciative we are for our time to work, play, laugh, cry, and create.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!

~ Teresa R. Funke

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.

~ Criss Jami

Why are the desert blooms that spring to life after a monsoon so magnificent? The answer is – their impermanence. The lush growth and blooming flowers do not last very long here in the desert, and this new growth only happens once a year. If this growth was never-ending, we would soon take it for granted. Likewise, our human lives. What makes them so special and unique? Our fleeting impermanence.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

On the road to success, there is always room to share appreciation and gratitude for other people’s successes. Feeling gratitude for other people raises our own vibration, while adding cement to the bricks we lay. Finding the best qualities in others allows us to build those qualities within ourselves. And when we focus on our personal growth with open hearts and minds, the speed with which we construct dramatically increases, because all the while, we are attracting more like energy and like-minded people into our lives to assist us.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.

~ Jon Chopan

You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.

~ Kamand Kojouri