Appreciation Quotes

To realize the value of 1 week, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper. To realize the value of 10 years, ask a newly divorced couple. To realize the value of 4 years, ask a graduate. To realize the value of 1 year, ask a student who has failed their final exam. To realize the value of 9 months, ask a mother who has given birth to a stillborn. To realize the value of 1 mont, ask a mother who has given birth prematurely. To realize the value of 1 minute, ask a person who missed the train, bus or plane. To realize the value of 1 second, ask a person who has survived an accident. To realize the value of freedom ask a person who's in prison. To realize the value of success, ask a person who has failed. To realize the value of a friend, relative, family member or partner, LOSE ONE. Time waits for no-one, treasure every split-second.

~ Katlego Semusa

Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Take time to sense the abundance we have, as we don't have an abundance of time.

~ Dixie Waters

It has been said that art is a tryst; for in the joy of it, maker and beholder meet.

~ Kojiro Tomita

When you express thankfulness, even the almost empty tank of petrol will go the extra mile; it changes challenges into opportunities, mistakes into experiences, disappointments into celebrations, doubt into faith.

~ Malti Bhojwani

When God blesses you with great opportunities in life, be sure to take a moment and be thankful for them.

~ Pauline Seaport

It's really not that difficult to be happy. You just have to be grateful and especially appreciate what you do have now. The rest will come, my dear.

~ Fasela Oosterwolde

If we lost everything except for the clothes we stood up in, would we turn to each other and think....How lucky we really were?

~ Jacqueline Kennedy

What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

~ John Sloan

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

~ Jordan Sonnenblick

The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered.

~ Daniel Wallock

I had a dream that I knew it all…but then I woke up and appreciated the fact that I didn’t know everything because then there would be nothing left to discover in life.

~ Starley Ard

I'm glad I didn't meet you when I was younger. I wouldn’t have had the wisdom to appreciate and cherish you for the gift you are in my life.

~ Steve Maraboli

Recognize and appreciate little things, and enjoy what Life has to offer

~ Cesar Nikko Caharian Iii

I appreciate the little things in life because it adds up to everything.

~ Lisa M. Cronkhite

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

~ T.a. Uner

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

~ Alice Munro

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

~ Taylor Swift

Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.

~ George Pólya

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life.

~ Zarina Bibi

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...

~ Peggy Noonan

It's important to appreciate the impact ofknowledge in our lives, and that of our parentsin getting us educated. However in today'sworld, if someone have not been to school, thatmeans he must have been educated.

~ Victor Adeagbo

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you can’t celebrate your success, appreciate your failure. Since life is all about celebration and appreciation.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees

~ Sue Monk Kidd

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Granddad once told me that to truly love this life, you need to know its darkest corners. But if you can bring a bit of sunshine to the sunless, it can only be for the good. I mean, what else are we really here for on this earth? Think about it some day, when the spring mornings look so golden and green.

~ Gareth Thompson

He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?

~ Susan E. Isaacs

Never expect appreciation for your hard work. Just continue, it will take you to the top.

~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

Never expect appreciation for your hardwork. Make sure you are doing the right thing and just continue..

~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

At the door to the locker room Dime asks [Ennis] to autograph his ball. Ennis rears back. He's chuckling but his eyes are wary. 'Why you want that? I'm just an old equipment hand, nobody cares about my autograph.''As far as I'm concerned you run the team,' Dime answers, so Ennis laughs and takes the Sharpie and signs his name to Dime's ball, and this will be the only autograph that Dime collects today.

~ Ben Fountain

Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes, wives would be happier, and husbands would probably be more kind (Gospel Ideals, p. 475).

~ David O. Mckay

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

~ Benjamin Hoff

Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.

~ Anthony Liccione

Everyone appreciates being appreciated.

~ Lance Greenfield

If you want to find a reason to smile, to find a reason to be happy, learn to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you.

~ Lionel Suggs