Gratitude Quotes

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

~ Henry Clay

I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t battingfor the other team, I’d marry you.”He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept yourproposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, mylife would be much easier. Much, much easier.

~ Ilona Andrews

I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection.For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.

~ Mike Ericksen

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.

~ Harold Klemp

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand, gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

~ Eileen Caddy

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

~ Jules Verne

If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

~ Kallistos Ware

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

~ Ann Voskamp

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

~ Faith Baldwin

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

~ Raheel Farooq

Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.

~ Faith Baldwin

Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.

~ Erwin W. Lutzer

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.

~ Jan Mckingley Hilado

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

~ Charles Dickens

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

~ Louisa May Alcott

When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.

~ Lissa Rankin

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

~ Anne Michaels

I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.

~ Elizabeth Berg

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one, and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

~ Théophile Gautier

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

~ Doris Lessing

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

~ Abraham Verghese

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

~ Isaac Asimov

After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India.'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked.'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything, the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

~ Hannah Whitall Smith

If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.

~ Georgette Heyer

When I think of how many people in this world have it worse than I do, I realize just how blessed I really am...... and I have to give thanks ...

~ Shannan Lea

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

~ Alain De Botton

Every morning when I wake up, I kiss her forehead as symbol of gratitude and appreciation and she repays me back with a lovely smile.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment, and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

~ Georgette Heyer

Though they only take a second to say, thank yous leave a warm feeling behind that can last for hours.

~ Kent Allan Rees

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but you see you hadn’t known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to things you knew nothing about. The boundary of knowledge receded, as you poked about in books, like Lake Erie’s rim as you climbed its cliffs. And each area of knowledge disclosed another, and another. Knowledge wasn’t a body, or a tree, but instead air, or space, or being—whatever pervaded, whatever never ended and fitted into the smallest cracks and the widest space between stars.

~ Annie Dillard

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

~ Bill W.

Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.

~ Stephen Richards

Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful.

~ Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.

~ Sandra Rodriguez Barron