Grateful Quotes

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.

~ Richard Lagravenese

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

~ Chrissy Metz

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

~ Eric Ries

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

~ Waris Dirie

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

~ Tom Hardy

I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.

~ Liu Yang

I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.

~ Ben Schnetzer

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

~ Maya Angelou

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

~ Jesse Williams

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

~ Jason Mraz

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

~ Selena Gómez

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

~ Jerry Garcia

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

~ David Gerrold

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

~ Eric Clapton

It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.

~ Pharrell Williams

I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.

~ Christie Brinkley

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

~ Dick Cheney

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

~ Maya Angelou

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

~ Marsha Blackburn

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

~ Ali Macgraw

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

~ Ken Kesey

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

~ Brandon Routh

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

~ Zig Ziglar

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

~ Rebecca Pidgeon

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

~ Tom Petty

I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.

~ Buck Owens

I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

~ Ashlee Simpson

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

~ Callie Thorne

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I am so grateful to Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld, and Katie Grand, who took a chance on me that first season and gave me an opportunity.

~ Kendall Jenner

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

~ Michele Bachmann

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.

~ Suze Orman

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

~ Samuel Butler

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

~ Richard Carlson

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

~ Aristotle

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

~ Maya Angelou

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

~ Boris Pasternak

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

~ Tom Felton

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

~ Eckhart Tolle