Grateful Quotes

I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love notes to my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita; I will always love you. I am grateful for a blessed life shared with you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every morning and every night, I pause for just a minute and express my gratitude for all that I have in my life and all that I have experienced.

~ M. James Airey

Having unceasingly grateful life requires demonstrating gratitude daily whether our daily life treats us kindly or not.

~ Assegid Habtewold

I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.

~ Steve Maraboli

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.

~ Steve Maraboli

If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.

~ Nikki Rowe

It is of vital importance to [Mandela] to be courteous and grateful at all times, as we never know whether we will have the opportunity to thank people or pay respect whenever they have been good to you.

~ Zelda La Grange

When I started this book last year, I had a small reception in mind. A few copies in my hand to share with close friends, maybe a small gathering... I never imagined that my book would have its own ISBN number and be available to the public. I never imagined seeing my name next to the words, published author. I feel so thankful that this has worked out so well for me. God is good!

~ Kristyn Van Cleave

Live, Love and be grateful you are capable of it.

~ Debbie Tosun Kilday

The sacred moment, cannot be substitute for either yesterday or tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I will forget what you said, but I will never forget how lively, joyful and grateful you made me feel.

~ Debasish Mridha

To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through, the thick wrap of relationships to keep me warm, a God who meticulously tends to every detail round about me, and it all costs me not a dime. What madness would keep me from being eternally thankful for all that?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Always acknowledge your daily blessings with a grateful heart, but never dare to be content with them. Your true potential in life is limitless.

~ Hafiz

As day gradually turns to night, Nadia then lifts her naked body from the floor, and like a goddess, she moves across the room with a stride that gives complement to every curve of her figure. She now leans over the coffee table to strike a match that breaks the light of night that clings to her. One by one, Nadia lights each candle in perfect form as the glowing contrast of light and dark dances around the edges of her beautiful body. She then looks at me again, she being this magical creature who has given me life to every body and realm; and oh how grateful I am that she has found me.

~ Luccini Shurod

I wish you a Merry Christmas sparkle with endless love, gladness and goodwill.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't mistake keen, honest observations as complaints. When you receive a help, a donation or a favour, never forget to be grateful and thankful for the ones who have been there for you.Learn to respect the space of people whose hearts have been treated like a doormat but they have answered more important priorities which all contribute towards the best of the welfare of the recipients of their generous and humble commitment among their choices and decisions for whom and with whom to reach out for. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with it's diverse life - everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually learn more about it, and always curious to see what is going to come up next.

~ Jay Woodman

I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than 2000 years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a whiskey tango trailer park by a bow-legged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver.

~ Generation Kill

Is life not more important than anything in this world?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not contribute to the Kingdom, you are not a grateful citizen of the Kingdom.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

~ Jeremiah Burroughs

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.

~ Dana Arcuri

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

~ Anthony Liccione

Everyday has its unique blessings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You do not know what you have and how you are blessed until you have nothing..Count all your blessings.

~ Lailah Giftyakita

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.

~ Julia Cameron

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

Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Being thankful for and celebrating what is attracts more of what can and will be.

~ T.f. Hodge

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful!

~ Kaori Miyazono

Grateful attitude,Thank God for one specific thing daily and write it in a journal. You will be amazed at abundance of blessings which will flow in your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

~ James Mcgreevey

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

~ Joel Osteen

Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.

~ William Shatner