Appreciation Quotes

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel

~ Anne Bradstreet

Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the appreciation of what you have, not what you should have.

~ Debasish Mridha

Thank you, Mom, for the way you managed yourself during the childish, mean, selfish, insensitive, irresponsible, unreasonable, hateful moments I put you through. From your example I learned to be patient, positive, kind, selfless, sympathetic, reliable, sensible, and loving. You have my endless appreciation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Notice the people you encounter in this life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Effective leaders have the ability to serve and appreciate others while at the same time enabling them to achieve greatness.

~ #Name?

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

~ Stephenie Meyer

The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.

~ John Taliaferro

A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own deserving jokes.

~ Pawan Mishra

When you know your worth, no one can dictate your value.

~ Andria Gaskins

Stop giving love to those who don't return it.

~ Robert Tew

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

You can't achieve anything deeply satisfying without a drawn-out process leading up to it- and yet process demands a goal. You can't love one without at least appreciating the other.

~ Chris Guillebeau

I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.

~ Vanna B.

Don't stop talking to me, Makenna. I need your words. Your voice.I don't know what to say is all. I want to take away your hurt.His cheek lifted into a smile under her hand. Thank you. But sometimes I think I need it. It reminds me I'm alive. And it makes the good times that much better. Like right now, being here, with you.

~ Laura Kaye

I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air, watching the wind sway the trees, enjoying the company of loved ones, a deep conversation, getting lost in a good book, going for a walk in nature, watching my kids grow up. Just the feeling itself of being alive, the absolute amazing fact that we are here right now, breathing, thinking, doing.

~ Marigold Wellington

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.

~ Zack W. Van

Appreciate what you have today, for tomorrow, it could be gone forever.

~ Devin Daubenspeck

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

~ Nathanael West

Death or Samadhi, man's life leads only to the grave. Appreciate your life.

~ Usha Cosmico

Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon.

~ Colleen Mariotti

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

~ Hal Holbrook

Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television saint Mr. Rogers. That history lives in each garment. By being aware of it, we can better appreciate what we have.

~ Tim Gunn

For the to see you shine, you must stay far way, for you are like the sun; when you’re too close, your light make them blind. And when you’re too far, they seek you. So let them seek you. They’re getting your light regardless, but appreciating your presence is different from recognizing your existence. If they don’t appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.

~ Najwa Zebian

Love is not about liking, loving and caring, but appreciation, understanding and devotion.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

~ Oscar Wilde

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

~ Alice Walker

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Every one of my fans is so special to me

~ Justin Bieber

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

~ José Saramago

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out, the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish, the other selfish. One is universally admired, the other universally condemned.

~ Dale Carnegie

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.

~ Oscar Wilde

For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.

~ Cecelia Ahern

The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the spaces *between* the rewards, we'll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards *and* the spaces, then we'll have everything - every minute of the time that we spent.

~ Benjamin Hoff

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

~ Deb Caletti

Just because it isn't perfect, doesn't mean it isn't awesome.

~ M.r. Mathias