Gratitude Quotes

Living in constant love and gratitude is the essence of spirituality.

~ Akemi G

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.

~ Tom Perrotta

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

~ Anna Quindlen

With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home!

~ Rupali Desai

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus, there is no virtue like necessity.

~ William Shakespeare

How would your life be different if you celebrated the things in your life that you do have instead of lamenting things that you don't? Let today be the day you embrace gratitude and appreciation and let go of entitlement and expectation.

~ Steve Maraboli

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

~ Charles Emmerson

Not only the footwear, wear also the courtesy, respect, and gratitude in your heart while stepping out of home.

~ Rupali Desai

Things we carry from home shows where we hail from ~ courtesy, respect, and gratitude

~ Rupali Desai

Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.

~ J. Loren Norris

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves, we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

~ Natalie Goldberg

You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.

~ Carrie Newcomer

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

~ Carrie Newcomer

As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter.

~ Jon Meacham

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

~ Max Barry

People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that. If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

~ Nick Vujicic

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

~ Richard Rohr

This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

~ Maya Angelou

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

~ Assegid Habtewold

My arms would be wrapped around him like angels’ wings.

~ Jess C. Scott

I know what it is to have nothing and plenty.Always count your blessing and be grateful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes the word 'gratitude' feels too thin to explain things.

~ Dee Williams

If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer.

~ Janet Autherine

The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he admonishes us to be realistic about life, accept God's gifts and enjoy them. He advises us to trust God and enjoy what we do have rather than complain about what we don't have.

~ Warren W. Wiersbe

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

~ Albert Einstein

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy

~ Frederick Dodson

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

To receive, you must be active. Keep in mind your purpose. You will receive in direct proportion to your clarity of vision, your definiteness of purpose, the steadiness of your faith, and the depth of your gratitude.

~ John-Roger

Want what you have, and then you can have what you want.

~ Frederick Dodson

The only people who you should get even with are those who have helped you.

~ John Southard

I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.

~ Steve Maraboli

I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

~ Dan Pearce

Receiving, gratitude, and generosity all grow together.

~ Mark V. Ewert

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.

~ Robert Hellenga