Appreciation Quotes

I am grateful for the grace to see, to hear, to talk, to feel, to smell, to taste and to walk.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Daily gratitude is a fountain of blessings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How would your life be different if you celebrated the things in your life that you do have instead of lamenting things that you don't? Let today be the day you embrace gratitude and appreciation and let go of entitlement and expectation.

~ Steve Maraboli

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

~ Charles Emmerson

As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter.

~ Jon Meacham

People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that. If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

~ Nick Vujicic

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy

~ Frederick Dodson

Want what you have, and then you can have what you want.

~ Frederick Dodson

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.

~ Robert Hellenga

Appreciating what I have is my medicine.

~ Betty Jamie Chung

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.

~ Tom Giaquinto

If we define optimism broadly as the tendency to maintain a positive outlook, then realistic optimism is the tendency to maintain a positive outlook within the constraints of the available measurable phenomena situated in the physical and social world (DeGrandpre, 2000, p. 733). With respect to fuzzy meaning, realistic optimism involves enhancing and focusing on the favorable aspects of our experiences. Examples include being lenient in our evaluation of past events, actively appreciating the positive aspects of our current situation, and routinely emphasizing possible opportunities for the future. With respect to fuzzy knowledge, realistic optimism involves hoping, aspiring, and searching for positive experiences while acknowledging what we do not know and accepting what we cannot know.

~ Sandra L. Schneider

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

~ Victoria Moran

Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.

~ Chuck Klosterman

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Appreciation involves being alert to the positive aspects of the current situation and feeling thankful for what one has and for one's circumstances. This requires not only a positive perspective in the present but also conscious awareness of features in the surround. The latter, in fact, is something that may be surprisingly rare. Especially when we are engaging in routine activities, we often do so mindlessly (Langer, 1997) or as though we were on automatic pilot (Cialdini, 1993). If we learn to bring our attention to the current state, we can choose to focus on positive aspects of the situation and to remind ourselves of the potential sources of good feelings that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

~ Sandra L. Schneider

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you know the reason why fellas liked hanging around me? It is because I made them feel appreciated and respected. If you were a scary fella but you are good at stealing cars, then be good at that. This is where your respect is coming from. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members.

~ Drexel Deal

You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who work in the dorms and cafeterias and classroom buildings are all professionals, and they're all important or they wouldn't be working for Michigan football.

~ Bo Schembechler

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect.

~ Kimberly Giles

The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.

~ Gyalwa Dokhampa

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

~ Alain De Botton

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.

~ Andrew Lennon

For many, Mother's Day is a day about Showing Appreciation to your mom. But for some its also a day of REMEMBRANCE of that unconditional love that they had with them all these years but have lost now.

~ Kakkz

It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

True love is a developed and intense appreciation for someone. It’s that perfect awareness that you are finally whole when she’s with you, and that hollow incompleteness you suffer when she’s gone.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I am learning to appreciate the gift of the moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to devote my attention to the cherry in those three seconds, really appreciate the tartness of the skin and the faint crunching sound when I bite down. I guess it's called mindfulness. Or being in the moment, or making the mundane sacred. Whatever it is, I'm doing it more. Like the ridiculously extended thank-you list for my hummus, the fruit taboo made me more aware of the whole cherry process, the seed, the soil, the five years of watering and waiting. That's the paradox: I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

~ A.j. Jacobs

We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

~ Carrie Fisher

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The appreciation of your success will only come with your perseverance.

~ Ron Baratono

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless… but you’re not worthless, you’re unappreciated.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it, but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Placing our attention on providing consistent appreciation, approval, and applause to those we love not only focuses their energy on the good things about themselves but also teaches them to return the favor to us.

~ Sue Patton Thoele