Gratitude Quotes

Getting to the destination you desire involves walking in the right direction. You can't board a jet to enlightenment, and thank God for that. Otherwise, when you jumped off the plane, you'd proceed to polluting paradise with the hell that you thought you had left behind.

~ Natalie Pace

When we flood our creative problem-solving mind with the endorphins of gratitude, we are open to receiving the spectacular solutions that are needed now to ensure that generations to come will enjoy this beautiful blue ball that we call home.

~ Natalie Pace

Gratitude for me is waking up each day, and being able to make a difference in somebody’s life.

~ Charmaine J Forde

I know I should be reassuring him that everything's all right, that he needn't worry, but I can't. Instead I'm talking to someone I don't know who isn't even there. Thank you, I'm saying. Thank you for Lucy, thank you for Claire and for Daniel, thank you for this cold and this blood and this pain. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

~ Michael Dibdin

True heartfelt gratitude offers moments of profound reflection, on the blessings which constantly fill our lives (KR, 1998)

~ Kieran Revell

Treasure the magic moments for the gems they are.

~ Catherine Marie Bergman

To be content is to count your blessings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Thank God, thank God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be generous with praise and kind words of encouragement. Say “thank you” when someone helps you. Make colleagues feel welcome when they call or stop to talk with you. If you let others know that they are appreciated, they’ll want to give you their best.

~ Del Suggs

A sprinkle of magic, a ton of fun, a heap of optimism, a lot of joy, a glimmer of hope – ’tis the gift of the Happy Rosy Day gratitude journal.

~ Zakiyya Rosebelle

Gratitude is the language of love.

~ Clifton L. West Iii

Just remember to say THANK YOU sometimes, for all of these everyday extraordinary gifts.

~ Scott Stabile

Thinking too much just brings it back to me, me, me—but thanking takes my eyes off myself and my mistakes and puts them on others, on things bigger than myself. I can’t stand here very long without being humbled at how small I am and amazed at how big and beautiful our world is.

~ Elizabeth Musser

Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of focusing on all the bad, be thankful for all the good.

~ Germany Kent

She could go on asking herself why roses had thorns or she could be thankful that thorns had roses.

~ Ella Griffin

The smaller the item of gratitude, the purer is the connection to our heart.

~ H.l. Balcomb

It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rings, dances under moonlight, children’s laughter, birdsongs, and the like. The challenge is recognizing things of value in the dark, sour, uglier parts of life. But if you look hard enough, you will find that even tough times offer pearls worthy of gratitude.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, a dance of thankfulness, celebration for no reason at all, for this tremendous gift that goes on showering on us, for this whole universe, from the dust to the divine.

~ Osho

As long as I live, I can only be grateful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a gift. Live it with gratitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as we are grateful, we shall be glad.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is not so bad after all when you can breathe.

~ Boniface Sagini

Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Seek the good in life and life will be good to you.

~ Jenni Young

Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

~ Marcus Aurelius

When you feel thankful, you can be appreciative for a moment, then not at all the next. It seems the tank is full, then it becomes empty, and the cycle continues. If you don't feel the same gratitude for a moment, know that it's possible in the next moment that comes around.

~ J.r. Rim

Gratitude will make you feel great, choose to be grateful.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Loyalty starts with a demonstration of respect and gratitude.

~ Chip Bell

If you woke up tomorrow to only the things you've expressed your gratitude for today, then what would be missing from your life in the morning?

~ Nanette Mathews

I choose to say it is well even when it is not, because in every situation I find myself in, I still learn from it.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but some who are still here, who gave me love and called forth love from me. When I number them over, I am surprised how many there are. And so I have to say that another of the golden threads is gratitude.I was grateful because I knew, even in my fear and grief, that my life had been filled with gifts.

~ Wendell Berry

The older I get, the more I seem to be able to appreciate my neighbor (whomever I happen to be with at the moment). Oh, sure, I've always tried to love my neighbor as myself; however, the more experiences I've had, the more chances I've had to see the uniqueness of each person... as well as each tree, and plant, and shell, and cloud... the more I find myself delighting every day in the lavish gifts of God, whom I've come to believe is the greatest appreciator of all.

~ Fred Rogers

Tea- The sweetness of love,The fragrance of flowers,The comfort of a friend,The warmth of a hug-Such great delight gingerly poured from a single pink teapot.

~ Zakiyya Rosebelle

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in that way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

~ M.j. Ryan

Gratitude is the appreciation of things that are not deserved, earned or demanded - those wonderful things that we take for granted.

~ Renée Paule

Open your box of blessings and take out something to smile about.

~ Annonymous Doner

If someone treads on my hand accidentally, while trying to help me, the pain may be no less acute than if he treads on it in contemptuous disregard of my existence or with a malevolent wish to injure me. But I shall generally feel in the second case a kind and degree of resentment that I shall not feel in the first. If someone's actions help me to some benefit I desire, then I am benefited in any case; but if he intended them so to benefit me because of his general goodwill towards me, I shall reasonably feel a gratitude which I should not feel at all if the benefit was an accidental consequence unintended or even regretted by him, of some plan of action with a different aim.

~ Peter Frederick Strawson

I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

~ Amy Poehler