Gratitude Quotes

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

~ Anne Lamott

You were formed inside a borrowed womb—a nourishing safe haven for months—then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

~ Arundhati Roy

When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.

~ Daniel Klein

Mamma says gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't.

~ Annette Bridges

Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.

~ David Che

Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.

~ Habeeb Akande

I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much. ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.

~ Rosslyn Elliott

Let Us Be GratefulToday we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

~ John F. Kennedy

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

~ Gregg Krech

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

~ Oswald Chambers

Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.

~ Steve Maraboli

Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.

~ Gregg Krech

Find things to be grateful for. It is easy. You're alive, that's a good thing to start being grateful for right away.

~ Allan G. Hunter

Beauty brings us back to the now.

~ Allan G. Hunter

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

~ Steve Maraboli

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

~ Melody Beattie

In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts He has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience, and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good. Then we deplore the fact that we lack the deep certainty, the strong faith, and the rich experience that God has given to others, and we consider this lament to be pious. We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Jesus Christ.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.

~ Silvia Hartmann

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

~ Todd Stocker

OtherwiseI got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love.At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

~ Jane Kenyon

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

~ Steve Maraboli

Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.

~ Bronnie Ware

The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

~ Anonymous

The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

~ Richard Paul Evans

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.

~ Steve Maraboli

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. And what about our problems? When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

~ Richard J. Foster

Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known.If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them

~ Mary Maclane

You can also look at your body and think about how the blood flows and the fact that your body is in constant renewal. It is a miracle of creation happening within you every second of the day. This is something to be thankful for.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours.

~ Karen Witemeyer

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

~ Sue Miller

Smile and Know, Thank and Know, became my mantra as I went about my days smiling and knowing when I could. As I did so, I was walking in complete faith, which left me naturally wanting to thank as well.

~ Bronnie Ware

Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

~ Steve Maraboli

Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.

~ Bronnie Ware

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery.

~ Erica Goros